About this title: From the famed broadcaster and one of the nation's most-admired public figures, this collection of blisteringly eloquent speeches delivers inspiring words that embody the best of the American spirit.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN-13:9780385523806ISBN:0385523807
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN-13:9780385523806ISBN:0385523807
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780307387738ISBN:0307387739
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385523806ISBN:0385523807
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Book is as new. Dj has very slight edgewear. First edition, first printing. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 404 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN-13:9780307387738ISBN:0307387739
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN-13:9780385523806ISBN:0385523807
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008
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Edition: First edition, second printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008
Description: SIGNED. Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. A lovely copy. Affectionately inscribed and fully signed by Bill Moyers on the full title page. A sharp copy. read more
Edition: First edition. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385523806ISBN:0385523807
Description: New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 404 p. Audience: General/trade. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition/First Printing. Still shrink wrapped from Random House with "Signed Edition" band. No flaws. Ships in a box. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385523806ISBN:0385523807
Description: Acceptable. Average reading condition. There are portions of the book that are highlighted and have hand written notes. There is wear and tear present. This item was a donation to Goodwill of Greater Washington. Thank you for your purchase. Your order will be processed within 2 business days of receipt. read more
"I chanced upon this while browsing the shelves of my favorite bookstore in Winslow, the main town on Bainbridge Island. It's been almost twenty years since I last read anything by Moyers - first A World of Ideas during my freshman year at Evergreen, and then The Power of Myth during my Comparative Lit years when I was finishing up my bachelor's at the UW. Coming back to him all these years later, I find that Moyers still satisfies in every way.
This collection of speeches he has delivered in the past twenty-some years is organized by subject: public service, history, politics, media, and religion. While he's typically forthright, yet thoughtful, in his progressive views - and certainly less confrontational and verbally obnoxious than those shrill right-wing ideologues on FOX News - Moyers does manage to surprise when he delivers some scathing indictments of former Center for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson, who was ousted after attempting to blackball independent journalism in the CPB.
"We're seeing unfold a contemporary example of the age-old ambition of power and ideology to squelch and punish journalists who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable.
"Who are they? They are the apologists for the people in power. I mean the people who are hollowing out middle-class security even as they enlist the sons and daughters of the working class in a war started under false pretenses. I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into a slush fund and encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of privilege and power picking their pockets. I mean the people who would discredit dissent and present their ideology as the official view of reality from which any deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy."
Hear, hear, Moyers. He may be just as damning as his enemies. But he's more eloquent by far.
Moyers also argues that we're in a second Gilded Age, when he asserts:
"Theodore Roosevelt warned a century ago of the subversive influence of money over public policy. He said the central fact in his time was that big business had become so dominant it would chew up democracy and spit it out. The power of corporations, he said, had to be balanced with the interest of the general public. But a hundred years later corporations are once again the undisputed overlords of government."
Moyers also pops a hole in the anti-intellectual and anti-science ideology that has run rampant for most of this first decade in American national politics.
"They say denial is not a river in Egypt. It is, however, the governing philosophy in Washington. The president's contempt for evidence is mind-boggling. Here is a man who was quick to launch a 'preventative war' against Iraq on faulty intelligence and premature judgment but who refuses to take preventative action against a truly global menace about which the scientific evidence is overwhelming."
The right-wing neo-cons can hate Gore all they want. But the evidence and consensus by the entire scientific community of the fact that global warming is very much real has been studied and tracked for several decades now. In other words, An Inconvenient Truth didn't tell me something I didn't already know. And if you discredit it because of a personal and/or political anathema to Gore, you need to get your head checked. Or if that doesn't work, I have several bridges that I would be more than happy to sell you.
The personal and political of Bill Moyers has never been more pointed than here in Moyers on Democracy. For the truly progressive, he's your man. If you get your news and ideology from FOX News, while you sit stewing against equal rights before the law for people that have been historically marginalized, then I suggest you put your head back in the sand. Moyers will just annoy you further."
"This book is a series of lectures. Some of them are quite inspiring and others I chose to skip. I didn't know much about Moyers and it is lovely to find a dedicated man who attempts to live his life according to his beliefs."
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