Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues
Breakthrough conversations with one of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century” (The Nation), in a stunning companion to the Emmy Award–winning PBS® series


This “provocative” and “absorbing” (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer's acclaimed PBS series invites readers into conversations with some of the most captivating voices on the scene today, in what Kirkus calls “a glittering array of discussions.” From Jon Stewart on politics and media to Michael Pollan on food, The Wire creator David Simon on the mean streets of our cities, James Cone and Shelby Steele on race in the age of Obama, Robert Bly and Nikki Giovanni on the power of poetry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the hard times of working Americans, and Karen Armstrong on faith and compassion, Moyer's own intelligence and insight match that of his guests and their discussions animate many of the most salient issues of our time.

With extensive commentary from Moyers, marked by his customary “respect, intelligence, curiosity, humor, and graciousness” (Booklist), here are the debates; cultural currents; and, above all, lively minds that shape the conversation of democracy.
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Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues
Breakthrough conversations with one of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century” (The Nation), in a stunning companion to the Emmy Award–winning PBS® series


This “provocative” and “absorbing” (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer's acclaimed PBS series invites readers into conversations with some of the most captivating voices on the scene today, in what Kirkus calls “a glittering array of discussions.” From Jon Stewart on politics and media to Michael Pollan on food, The Wire creator David Simon on the mean streets of our cities, James Cone and Shelby Steele on race in the age of Obama, Robert Bly and Nikki Giovanni on the power of poetry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the hard times of working Americans, and Karen Armstrong on faith and compassion, Moyer's own intelligence and insight match that of his guests and their discussions animate many of the most salient issues of our time.

With extensive commentary from Moyers, marked by his customary “respect, intelligence, curiosity, humor, and graciousness” (Booklist), here are the debates; cultural currents; and, above all, lively minds that shape the conversation of democracy.
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Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

by Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

by Bill Moyers

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Breakthrough conversations with one of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century” (The Nation), in a stunning companion to the Emmy Award–winning PBS® series


This “provocative” and “absorbing” (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer's acclaimed PBS series invites readers into conversations with some of the most captivating voices on the scene today, in what Kirkus calls “a glittering array of discussions.” From Jon Stewart on politics and media to Michael Pollan on food, The Wire creator David Simon on the mean streets of our cities, James Cone and Shelby Steele on race in the age of Obama, Robert Bly and Nikki Giovanni on the power of poetry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the hard times of working Americans, and Karen Armstrong on faith and compassion, Moyer's own intelligence and insight match that of his guests and their discussions animate many of the most salient issues of our time.

With extensive commentary from Moyers, marked by his customary “respect, intelligence, curiosity, humor, and graciousness” (Booklist), here are the debates; cultural currents; and, above all, lively minds that shape the conversation of democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781595587732
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 04/03/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 608
Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 5.94(h) x 1.44(d)

About the Author

About The Author
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.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Jon Stewart 1

Michael Pollan 9

Louise Erdrich 21

Nikki Giovanni 32

Andrew Bacevich 47

Robert Wright 62

David Simon 75

Victor Gold 89

Nell Painter 96

Jim Hightower 101

Richard Goldstone 110

Robert Bly 127

Jeremy Scahill 140

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot 160

John Lithgow 172

William Greider 185

Karen Armstrong 196

Ross Douthat and Mickey Edwards 206

Grace Lee Boggs 225

James K. Galbraith 233

Douglas Blackmon 246

Sam Tanenhaus 254

Maxine Hong Kingston 264

E.O.Wilson 274

Simon Johnson 285

Holly Sklar 295

Jane Goodall 302

James Cone 316

David Boies and Ted Olson 328

Wendell Potter 342

Benjamin Barber 355

Margaret Flowers 364

Philippe Sands 373

Howard Zinn 385

Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson 396

Thomas Cahill 415

Shelby Steele 428

Robert Kaiser 439

Barbara Ehrenreich 449

Martín Espada 455

John Grisham 462

Susan Jacoby 471

JimYong Kim 481

W.S. Merwin 491

Mike Davis 507

Reverend Jeremiah Wright 518

Barry Lopez 538

Select Bibliography of the Guests Interviewed 547

Permissions 557

Index 559

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