Description: Whether reflecting on today's climate of megamedia concentration, rampant corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present.
Brief description: Bill Moyers (1934-2025) was a journalist and public commentator. He was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a senior White House assistant and press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson, the publisher of Newsday, a senior news analyst for CBS News, and the producer of groundbreaking series for public television. He is the winner of more than thirty-five Emmy Awards, nine Peabody Awards, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times and Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, both published by The New Press.
Review Quotes: Praise for Moyers on America:
"Bill Moyers believes with his very heart in the interchange of ideas, in individual speaking out. . . . And he is, in a very real sense, a man of faith: of faith in America."-James Dickey, The New York Times
"Not only a good reporter . . . a first-rate storyteller."--The Boston Globe
"The conscience of American journalism."
--Salon
"Bill Moyers is doing what Madison and Jefferson desperately hoped the press would do--provide information . . . so that the people would be informed enough to enable constitutional democracy to survive."
--Nat Hentoff