A World of Ideas:

Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future

Broadway Books, 1989 - History - 513 pages

Interviews with Chinua Achebe, Isaac Asimov, Mary Catherine Bateson, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, Sissela Bok, T. Berry Brazelton, James MacGregor Burns, Noam Chomsky, F. Forrester Church, Henry Steele Commager, E.L. Doctorow, Peter F. Drucker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Northrop Frye, Carlos Fuentes, Willard Gaylin, Mary Ann Glendon, Vartan Gregorian, Joseph Heller, Michael Josephson, Leon R. Kass, Sara Lightfoot, John Lukacs, Forrest McDonald, Arturo Madrid, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Martha Nussbaum, Elaine Pagels, David Puttnam, John Searle, Maxine Singer, Barbara Tuchman, Derek Walcott, Steven Weinberg, August Wilson, William Julius Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Sheldon Wolin, Anne Wortham, C.N. Yang.

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About the author (1989)

Bill Moyers, June 5, 1934 - Bill Moyers was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, on June 5, 1934. He attended North Texas State College, the University of Texas at Austin, earning his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism in 1956, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from 1956 to 1957 and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas in 1959. After college, Moyers joined the staff of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson as his personal assistant, from 1960 to 1961. From 1961 to 1962, Moyers was the associate director of public affairs for the Peace Corps, and deputy director of the Peace Corps in 1963. He later joined Johnson again, this time as special assistant to the President, from 1963 to 1967. He became the Press Secretary, in 1965 until 1967. That same year, he began as publisher of Newsday, holding the position until 1970. He then became producer and editor of the Bill Moyers' Journal for PBS from 1971-76, and an anchor for USA: People and Politics from 1978 till 1981. In 1976 he joined CBS as chief correspondent for CBS Reports for two years. He was the senior news analyst for CBS News from 1981 to 1986 and has been executive editor of Public Affairs Programming Inc. since 1986. Over the course of his many years in journalism, Bill Moyers has earned and received many awards and honors, among them, an Honorary doctorate, from the American Film Institute; numerous Emmy Awards; the Ralph Lowell medal for contribution to public television; George Peabody awards, 1976, 1980, 1985-86, 1988-90; DuPont/Columbia Silver Baton award, 1979, 1986, 1988; Gold Baton award, 1991; and the George Polk awards, 1981, 1986.

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Title	A World of Ideas: Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future World of ideas / Bill Moyers
Authors	Bill D. Moyers, Betty Sue Flowers
Editor	Betty Sue Flowers
Edition	illustrated
Publisher	Broadway Books, 1989
ISBN	0385263465, 9780385263467
Length	513 pages
Subjects	History › United States › 20th Century History / General History / United States / 20th Century Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism Political Science / General

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