Bill Moyer's World of Ideas - Hardcover

Moyers, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385262787 ISBN 13: 9780385262781

Publisher: Doubleday, 1989

Synopsis

The well-respected public television journalist presents a series of one-on-one interviews with leading scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, and historians that outline the pressing problems America will face in the future

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From the Publisher:

Conversations with thoughtful men and women about American life today and theideas shaping our future. Bill Moyers brings us one-on-one interviews withforty-two extraordinary men and women--poets and physicists, historians andnovelists, doctors and philosophers--discussing what's happening in our lives,our hearts, and our minds as we approach a new millenium.

From Library Journal:

"The true conversation of democracy," says Moyers, "occurs not between politicians or pundits but across the entire spectrum of American life." This book is a compilation of the 41 interviews that Moyers conducted for his 1988 PBS TV series, an eclectic mix of authors, scientists, educators, and philosophers, including the late Barbara Tuchman on the lessons of history; Tom Wolfe on political activism on the local scale; and former New York Public Library Director Vartan Gregorian on how libraries remind one about "one's past, present, and most of the possibilities for the future." In an age of 30-second sound bites, these thoughtful discussions are welcome and important. Recommended. See also William F. Buckley's On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures , reviewed on p.90.
- Ed. -- Judy Quinn, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385262787
• ISBN 13: 9780385262781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 513