Moyers on America - by Bill Moyers (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

The Peabody Award-winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an "eloquent selection of . . . commentaries" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the years. With television programs covering topics from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas, he has become one of America's most trusted journalists. Now Moyers presents, for the first time, a powerful statement of his own personal beliefs-political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today's politics, Moyers delivers perceptive and trenchant insights into the American experience.

From his early years as a Texas journalist to his role as a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, top assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, publisher of Newsday, senior correspondent and analyst for CBS News, and producer of many of public television's groundbreaking series, Moyers has been actively engaged in some of the most volatile episodes of the past fifty years. Drawing from these experiences, he shares his unique understanding of American politics and an enduring faith in the nation's promise and potential. Whether reflecting on today's media climate, corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers on America recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present.

"Not only a good reporter . . . a first-rate storyteller." -The Boston Globe

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

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.