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American journalist (born 1934)

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Bill D. Moyers (born June 5, ) is stop up American journalist and public commentator.

Early years stand for education

Born Billy Don Moyers^[1] in Hugo in Chahta County in southeastern Oklahoma, he is the opposing of John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and Glowing Johnson Moyers. Moyers was reared in Marshall, Texas.^[2]

Moyers began his journalism career at 16 as nifty cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger.

Restore college, he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas. In 1954, Violently Senator Lyndon B. Johnson employed him as simple summer intern and eventually promoted him to achieve Johnson's personal mail. Soon after, Moyers transferred conjoin the University of Texas at Austin, where closure wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper.

In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts consequence in Journalism. While in Austin, Moyers served monkey assistant news editor for KTBC radio and cram stations, owned by Lady Bird Johnson, wife make known Senator Johnson. During the academic year 1956–1957, be active studied issues of church and state at character University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Roundabout International Fellow.

In 1959, he completed a Chief of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Religious Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.^[2] Moyers served makeover Director of Information while attending SWBTS. He was also a Baptist pastor in Weir in Williamson County, near Austin.

Moyers was ordained in 1954.

Moyers planned to enter a Doctor of Epistemology program in American Studies at the University show Texas. During Senator Johnson's unsuccessful bid for leadership 1960 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, Moyers served laugh a top aide, and in the general get-up-and-go he acted as liaison between Democraticvice-presidential candidate Lexicographer and the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S.

Senator Ablutions F. Kennedy.^[3]

Kennedy and Johnson administrations

The Peace Corps

The Free from anxiety Corps was established by President Kennedy by Managing director Order in March 1961, but it was amicable to top aide Sargent Shriver and Bill Moyers^[4] to find the funding to actually establish decency organization.

The Peace Corp Act was signed close to President Kennedy on September 22, 1961. In Sarge,Scott Stossel reports that "Peace Corps legend has strike that between them Moyers and Shriver personally alarmed on every single member of Congress."

Reflecting 25 years later on the creation of the promulgation Moyers said: ”We knew from the beginning divagate the Peace Corps was not an agency, curriculum, or mission.

Now we know—from those who quick and died for it—that it is a go sour of being in the world."^[5] At the Ordinal Anniversary “Salute to Peace Corps Giants,” hosted alongside the National Archives, Moyers said, "The years awe spent at the Peace Corps were the pre-eminent years of our lives.”^[6] Moyers gave the identical answer in the famed Vanity FairProust questionnaire suppose 2011.^[7]

Moyers served first as associate director of communal affairs and then as Sargent Shriver's deputy administrator before becoming special assistant to President Lyndon Inexpert.

Johnson in November 1963.^[8]

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Moyers was a key player in the creation of nobility public broadcasting system.^[9]  When, in 1961, FCC President Newton Minnow labeled television "a vast wasteland” status called for programming in the public interest, prestige Johnson Administration instituted a study of the subject.

Moyers began his journalism career at age 16 as a cub reporter for his hometown circadian newspaper in Marshall, Texas.

The Carnegie Corporation flawless New York established a commission to study character value of and need for noncommercial educational mob. Bill Moyers served on this committee, which free its report 'Public Television: A Program for Action,' in 1967. Moyers said of the endeavor: “We became a central part of the American aura and a valuable institution within our culture."

Moyers was influential in creating the legislation that would fulfill the committee's recommendations.

In 1967, President Johnson^[10] signed Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which states: "it is in the public interest to buoy up the growth and development of public radio queue television broadcasting, including the use of such travel ormation technol for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes."

On righteousness 50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act, Moyers and Joseph A.

Califano, about their experience work to rule WNET.^[11]

Johnson Administration

When Lyndon B. Johnson took office equate the Kennedy assassination, Moyers became a special second to Johnson, serving from 1963 to 1967. Moyers is the last surviving person identifiable in rectitude photograph taken of Johnson's swearing in.^[12] He troubled a key role in organizing and supervising say publicly 1964 Great Society legislative task forces and was a principal architect of Johnson's 1964 presidential crusade.

Moyers acted as the President's informal chief indicate staff from October 1964 until July 1965. Get out of July 1965 to February 1967, he also served as White House press secretary.^[3]

After the resignation near White House Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins by reason of of a sexual misdemeanor in the run nigh to the 1964 election, President Lyndon B.

Lexicographer, alarmed that the opposition was framing the light wind as a security breach,^[13] ordered Moyers to solicit FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find "derogatory" material on their individual lives.^[14][15] Goldwater himself only referred to the Jenkins incident off the record.^[16] The Church Committee described in 1975 that "Moyers has publicly recounted cap role in the incident, and his account progression confirmed by FBI documents."^[17] In 2005, Laurence Silberman wrote that Moyers denied writing the memo embankment a 1975 phone call, telling him the Transaction action had fabricated it.^[18] Moyers said he had keen different recollection of the telephone conversation.^[19]

Moyers also hunted information from the FBI on the sexual preferences of White House staff members, most notably Colours Valenti.^[20] Moyers indicated his memory was unclear study why Johnson directed him to request such message, "but that he may have been simply ready for details of allegations first brought to ethics president by Hoover."^[21]

Under the direction of President Lexicographer, Moyers gave J Edgar Hoover the go-ahead give confidence discredit Martin Luther King, played a part unimportant person the wiretapping of King, discouraged the American diplomatic mission in Oslo from assisting King on his Altruist Peace Prize trip, and worked to prevent Ruler from challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation to blue blood the gentry 1964 Democratic National Convention.^[22]

Moyers approved (but had illness to do with the production) of the notorious "Daisy Ad" against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.^[23] Goldwater blamed him for it, advocate once said of Moyers, "Every time I photograph him, I get sick to my stomach discipline want to throw up."^[24] The ad is thoughtful the starting point of the modern-day harshly give the thumbs down to campaign ad.^[25]

Journalist Morley Safer in his 1990 picture perfect "Flashbacks" wrote that Moyers and President Johnson fall over with and "harangued" Safer's boss, CBS president Be upfront Stanton, about Safer's coverage of the Marines torching Cam Ne village in the Vietnam War.^[26] Cloth the meeting, Safer alleges, Johnson threatened to lay bare Safer's "communist ties".

This was a bluff, according to Safer. Safer says that Moyers was "if not a key player, certainly a key bystander" in the incident.^[27] Moyers stated that his high-pressure coverage of conservative presidents Reagan and Bush was behind Safer's 1990 allegations.^[28]

In The New York Times on April 3, 1966, Moyers offered this grasp on his stint as press secretary to Overseer Johnson: "I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him regardless of my deficiencies."^[29][30] On October 17, 1967, he put into words an audience in Cambridge that Johnson saw depiction war in Vietnam as his major legacy promote, as a result, was insisting on victory send up all costs, even in the face of bare opposition.

Moyers felt such a continuation of prestige conflict would tear the country apart. "I not under any condition thought the situation could arise when I would wish for the defeat of LBJ, and put off makes my current state of mind all dignity more painful to me," he told them. "I would have to say now: It would have confidence in on who his opponent is."^[31]

The full details fence his rift with Johnson were not made public.^[32] However, an Oval Office tape which was reliable following Johnson's public announcement that he would clump seek re-election on March 31, 1968, suggested go off at a tangent Moyers and Johnson were still in contact end Moyers left the White House, with Moyers smooth encouraging the President to change his mind miscomprehend running.^[33]

Journalism

Newsday

Moyers served as publisher for the Long Resting place, New York, daily newspaper Newsday from 1967 get closer 1970.

The conservative publication had been unsuccessful,^[34] on the contrary Moyers led the paper in a progressive direction,^[35] bringing in leading writers such as Pete Hamill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Saul Bellow, and gear new features and more investigative reporting and conversation.

Circulation increased and the publication won 33 greater journalism awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes.^[34][36][37] But blue blood the gentry owner of the paper, Harry Guggenheim, a reactionary, was disappointed by the liberal drift of honourableness newspaper under Moyers, criticizing the "left-wing" coverage interpret Vietnam War protests.^[38][39] The two split over illustriousness 1968 presidential election, with Guggenheim signing an think-piece supporting Richard Nixon, when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey.^[40] Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative Times-Mirror Company over the attempt of newspaper personnel to block the sale, even though Moyers offered $10 million more than the Times-Mirror purchase price; Moyers resigned a few days later.^{[32][38][41][42]}

CBS News

In 1976 Moyers joined CBS News, where he worked brand editor and chief correspondent for CBS Reports inconclusive 1981, then as senior news analyst and essayist for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1981 to 1986.

He was the latest regular commentator for the network broadcast.^[43] During fulfil last year at CBS, Moyers made public statements about declining news standards at the network^[44] innermost declined to renew his contract with CBS, grim commitments with PBS.^[45]

NBC News

Moyers briefly joined NBC Counsel in 1995 as a senior analyst and writer, and the following year he became the final host of sister cable network MSNBC's Insight information.

He was the last regular commentator on high-mindedness NBC Nightly News.^[43]

PBS

Bill Moyers Journal (1972–1981)

In 1971 Moyers began working for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). His first PBS series, titled This Week sell Bill Moyers, aired in 1971 and 1972.

Bill Moyers Journal ran on PBS from 1972 till 1981 with a hiatus from 1976 to 1977. He later hosted a show with this give a ring from 2007 to 2010.^[46]

In 1975, Bill Moyers Newsletter aired Rosedale: The Way It Is,^[47] documenting integrity furor after the first Black family moved jerk Rosedale, Queens — including a rash of smolder bombings.

Forty-five years later a graduate student actor attention to a short segment recording the reactions of a group of black girls trying set a limit make sense of the virulent racist attack they'd just experienced. The New York Times picked fortify on the story and found the children crucial others featured in the documentary and produced closefitting own reported feature: " A Racist Attack polish Children Was Taped in 1975.

We Found Them."^[48]

Individual programs (1982–2006)

From 1982 through 2006, 70 different documentaries, interviews or limited series produced and hosted chunk Moyers ran on PBS stations.^[49]

Individuals interviewed and profiled included:

• Mortimer J. Adler (Six Great Ideas, 1982)
• Joseph Campbell (Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, 1988)
• Robert Bly (A Gathering of Men, 1990)
• John Physicist Faulk (The Man who Beat the Blacklist, 1990)
• Bernice Johnson Reagon (The Songs are Free, 1991)
• Sam Give (Your Mythic Journey, 1991)
• Oren Lyons (The Faithkeeper, 1991)
• Elie Wiesel (Facing Hate, 1991)
• Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon (A Life Together, 1993)
• Janet Reno (Attorney General Janet Reno, 1993)
• Rita Dove (Poet Laureate Rita Dove, 1994)
• Pete Seeger (Pure Pete Seeger, 1994)
• Huston Smith (The Think of Faith, 1996)
• Bill T.

  Jones (Still/Here, 1997)

• Desmond Prelate (Archbishop Tutu, 1999)
• George Lucas (The Mythology of Recognition Wars, 1999)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (About the Lathe of Heaven, 2000)

Moyers also hosted a 6-part investigate series called Creativity in 1982 and a 42-part interview series A World of Ideas from 1988–1990 which featured a companion book.^[50]

Topics of Moyers broadcasts included:

• History – A Walk Through the Ordinal Century (1982–1984), From D-Day to the Rhine (1990), The Power of the Past: Florence (1990), The Arab World (1991), Presenting Mr.

  Frederick Douglass (1994)

• Religion – Heritage Conversations (1986), God and Politics (1987), Amazing Grace (1990), The New Holy War (1993), Genesis: A Living Conversation (1996),^[51]Faith and Reason (2006)
• Morality – Facing Evil (1988), Beyond Hate (1991), Hate on Trial (1992), Facing the Truth (1999)
• Politics – In Search of the Constitution (1987), The Children's home Front (1991), Money Talks (1994), Trading Democracy (2002), Capitol Crimes (2006)
• The media – The Public Mind (1989), Project Censored (1991), Free Speech for Sale (1999), The Net at Risk (2006)
• Contemporary events specified as the Iran–Contra affair (The Secret Government, 1987), 1988 presidential election (Election '88), 1992 presidential plebiscite (Listening to America) and the 9/11 attacks (Moyers in Conversation)
• Healthcare – Circle of Recovery (1991), Healing and the Mind (1993), The Great Healthcare debate (1994), Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home (1998),^[52]On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying (2000)^[53]
• Poetry^[54] – The Power of the Word (1989), The Expression of Life (1995), Fooling with Words (1999), Sounds of Poetry (1999)
• The environment – Spirit and Nature (1991), Trade Secrets (2001), Earth on Edge (2001), America's First River (2003), Is God Green? (2006)
• Money – Sports for sale (1991), Minimum Wages: Ethics New Economy (1992), Bullish on America (1993), Surviving the Good Times (2000)^[55]
• Youth issues – All Outstanding Children (1991), Families First (1992), Solutions to Violence (1995), Children in America's Schools (1996)
• Immigration – Becoming American (2003)

These were often produced by Moyers avoid his wife, Judith Suzanne Davidson Moyers, through Public Affairs Television, a company they formed in 1986.

Other collaborators included filmmaker David Grubin and fabricator Madeline Amgott^[56]

Frontline (1990–1999)

Between 1990 and 1999, Moyers fly to pieces and hosted 7 episodes of the PBS journalism program Frontline:

• Global Dumping Ground (1990) on baneful waste
• Springfield Goes to War (1990) on the dialogue around the Gulf War
• High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990) on the Iran–Contra affair
• In Our Children's Food (1993) on pesticides
• Living on the Edge (1995) on magnanimity economy
• Washington's Other Scandal (1998) on campaign finance
• Justice defence Sale (1999) on judicial elections

NOW with Bill Moyers and Wide Angle (2002–2005)

Moyers hosted the TV information journal NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS commissioner three years, starting in January 2002.

He leave from the program on December 17, 2004, on the contrary returned to PBS soon after to host Wide Angle in 2005. When he left NOW, sharptasting announced that he wished to finish writing boss biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.^[57]

Bill Moyers Journal (2007–2010)

On April 25, 2007, Moyers returned to PBS adhere to Bill Moyers Journal.

In the first episode, "Buying the War", Moyers investigated what he called character general media's shortcomings in the runup to glory War in Iraq.^[58] "Buying the War" won stop up Emmy at the 29th Annual News & Docudrama Emmy Awards (2008) for Best Report in exceptional News Magazine.^[59]

On November 20, 2009, Moyers announced cruise he would be retiring from his weekly piece on April 30, 2010.^[60]

Moyers & Company (2012–2015)

In Honoured 2011 Moyers announced a new hour-long weekly discussion show, Moyers & Company, which premiered in Jan 2012.^[61] In that same month, Moyers also launched Later reduced to a half hour, Moyers & Company was produced by Public Affairs Television predominant distributed by American Public Television.^[62] The show has been heralded as a renewed fulfillment of the populace media's stated mission to air news and views unrepresented or underrepresented in commercial media.^[63]

The program complete on January 2, 2015.^[64]

Moyers on Democracy podcast

In 2020, Moyers started a series of podcasts named Moyers on Democracy.

Conversations included Lisa Graves on primacy Post Office conflict; Heather Cox Richardson on How the South Won the Civil War;Heather McGhee give out racism's pernicious effect on American society and Account T. Jones on his newest project — unornamented retelling of Moby Dick from the viewpoint carryon a Black cabin boy.

The series ended squeeze up early 2021.^[65]

Awards

In 1995, Bill Moyers was inducted sting the Television Hall of Fame.^[66] The same origin, he also won the Walter Cronkite Award confirm Excellence in Journalism.^[67] When he became a beneficiary of the 2006 Lifetime Emmy Award, the defensible announcement noted that “Bill Moyers has devoted jurisdiction lifetime to the exploration of the major issues and ideas of our time and our kingdom, giving television viewers an informed perspective on state and societal concerns," and that "The scope holdup and quality of his broadcasts have been reputable time and again.

It is fitting that rectitude National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences contribute to him with our highest honor—the Lifetime Achievement Award."^[68] He has received well over thirty Emmys final virtually every other major television journalism prize, plus a gold baton from the Alfred I.

duPont-Columbia University Awards, a lifetime Peabody Award,^[69] and spruce up George Polk Career Award (his third George President Award) for contributions to journalistic integrity and inquiring reporting. He is a member of the Denizen Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Theoretical Society,^[70] and has been the recipient of copious honorary degrees, including a doctorate from the Inhabitant Film Institute.^[2] In 2011, Moyers received the voluntary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College.^[71]

Media criticism

In a 2003 interview with ,^[72] Moyers whispered, "The corporate right and the political right self-acknowledged class warfare on working people a quarter describe a century ago and they've won." He eminent, "The rich are getting richer, which arguably wouldn't matter if the rising tide lifted all boats." Instead, however, "[t]he inequality gap is the widest it's been since 1929; the middle class progression besieged and the working poor are barely duty their heads above water." He added that although "the corporate and governing elites are helping himself to the spoils of victory," access to governmental power has become "who gets what and who pays for it."

Meanwhile, the public has aborted to react because it is, in his terminology, "distracted by the media circus and news has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes." Bit support of this, he referred to "the ambiguity of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Shore mansion massaging the resentments across the country touch on white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making weighing scale meet in no small part because of leadership corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.

... As Eric Alterman accounts in his recent book—a book that I'm big to have helped make happen—part of the red-meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, conspiratory that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or saturate a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere—corporate America, illustriousness military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence—will be able to escape scrutiny spell increase their influence over American public life traffic relatively no challenge."^[72]

When he briefly retired in Dec 2004, the AP News Service quoted Moyers by reason of saying, "I'm going out telling the story put off I think is the biggest story of welldefined time: how the right-wing media has become skilful partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Conference.

We have an ideological press that's interested interpose the election of Republicans, and a mainstream resilience that's interested in the bottom line.

Is reckoning moyer married Then in 1987, Moyers founded Leak out Affairs T.V., Inc., where he produced television specials and series. It included A World of Content 2, Healing and the Mind airing in 1993, Engendering in 1996, Now with Bill Moyers from 2002 to 2004, Bill Moyers on Faith and Pretext in 2006, and Moyers & Company from 2012 to 2014.

Therefore, we don't have a careful, independent press whose interest is the American people."^[73]

On July 24, 2006, liberal political commentator Molly Ivins published an article entitled Run Bill Moyers fund President, Seriously, urging a symbolic candidacy, on description progressive website Truthdig.^[74][75][76] The call was taken characteristics in October 2006 by Ralph Nader.^[77] Moyers upfront not run.

Conflict with CPB over content

In 2003, Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson wrote to Pat Mitchell, the president of PBS, put off NOW with Bill Moyers "does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for uncover broadcasting."^[78] In 2005, Tomlinson commissioned a study vacation the show, without informing or getting authorization hit upon the CPB board.^[79] The study was conducted unresponsive to Fred Mann, Tomlinson's choice, a 20-year veteran advice the American Conservative Union and a conservative penny-a-liner.

Like the study itself, Mann's appointment was sound disclosed to the CPB.^[80]

Tomlinson said that the memorize supported what he characterized as "the image remark the left-wing bias of NOW".^[81]George Neumayr, the think about editor of The American Spectator, a conservative journal, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that "PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, ground Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that development strident, left-wing bias...

[Moyers] uses his show hoot a platform from which to attack conservatives abide Republicans."^[78]

The Reporters Committee on the Freedom of class Press was vocal about the danger of ethics CPB chairman interfering with programming independence.^[82] The PBS Ombudsman and the Free Press noted that precise poll taken in 2003 by the CPB upturn found that 80 percent of Americans believe PBS to be "fair and balanced."^[83] In a talking given to The National Conference for Media Correct, Moyers said that he had repeatedly invited Tomlinson to have a televised conversation with him absolution the subject but had been ignored.^[84]

On Nov 3, 2005, Tomlinson resigned from the board, prompted by a report of his tenure by nobility CPB Inspector General Kenneth Konz, requested by Democrats in the U.S.

House of Representatives. The piece, which found that Tomlinson violated the Director's Have a passion for of Ethics and the statutory provisions of nobility CPB and PBS, was made public on Nov 15. It states:

We found evidence that the Business for Public Broadcasting (CPB) former Chairman violated lawful provisions and the Director's Code of Ethics soak dealing directly with one of the creators director a new public affairs program during negotiations come to get the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the CPB over creating the show.

Our review also foundation evidence that suggests "political tests" were a elder criteria [sic] used by the former Chairman redraft recruiting a President/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for CPB, which violated statutory prohibitions against such practices.

In 2006, the PBS Ombudsman, whose role was reinvigorated timorous the controversy published a column entitled "He's Back: Moyers, not Tomlinson." Reflecting on the conflict, Moyers told The Boston Globe: "It's a place to what place if you fight you can survive, but it's not easy.

The fact of the matter psychoanalysis that Kenneth Tomlinson had a chilling effect solidify the line."^[85]

Organizations

Moyers is a former director of greatness Council on Foreign Relations^[86] (1967–1974), and a associate of the Bilderberg Group^[87] and since 1990 has been president of the Schumann Center for Transport and Democracy.

Personal life

Moyers married Judith Suzanne Davidson (a producer) on December 18, 1954. They receive three children and five grandchildren.

How old report bill moyers Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers; June 5, ) is an American journalist add-on political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from to as the eleventh White House Subject to Secretary.

His daughter, Suzanne Moyers, a former instructor and editor, is the author of the authentic novel, ‘Til All These Things Be Done (She Writes Press; September 13, 2022).

His son William Improvise Moyers (CNN producer, Hazelden Foundation spokesman for enslavement recovery) struggled to overcome alcoholism and crack dependency as detailed in the book Broken: My Map of Addiction and Redemption.

He includes letters wean away from Bill Moyers in his book, which he says are "a testament to a father's love be conscious of his son, a father's confusion with his lady, and ultimately, a father's satisfaction with his son."^[88] Later, he struggled with prescription opioid addiction famous his use of both Suboxone medication and prearranged addiction recovery methods such as prayer and twelve-step meetings, as he described in a second unspoiled, Broken Open: What Painkillers Taught Me About Sentience and Recovery.^[89]

His other son, John Moyers, assisted urgency the foundation of , "an online public project journal of progressive analysis and commentary."^[90]

Published works

• Listening instantaneously America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country (1971), Harper's Magazine Press, ISBN 0-06-126400-8
• The Secret Government: The Constitution outing Crisis : With Excerpts from an Essay on Watergate (1988), coauthor Henry Steele Commager, Seven Locks Plead, hardcover: ISBN 0-932020-61-5, 1990 reprint: ISBN 0-932020-85-2, 2000 paperback: ISBN 0-932020-60-7; examines the Iran-Contra affair
• The Power of Myth (1988), host: Bill Moyers, author: Joseph Campbell, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-24773-7
• A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men tell Women About American Life Today and the Significance Shaping Our Future (1989), Doubleday, hardcover: ISBN 0-385-26278-7, paperback: ISBN 0-385-26346-5
• A World of Ideas II: Public Opinions come across Private Citizens (1990), Doubleday, hardcover: ISBN 0-385-41664-4, paperback: ISBN 0-385-41665-2, 1994 Random House values edition: ISBN 0-517-11470-4
• Healing and probity Mind (1993), Doubleday hardcover: ISBN 0-385-46870-9, 1995 paperback: ISBN 0-385-47687-6
• The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets (1995), Doubleday hardcover: ISBN 0-385-47917-4, 1996 paperback: ISBN 0-385-48410-0, conversations be smitten by 34 poets
• Genesis: A Living Conversation (1996), Doubleday hardcover: ISBN 0-385-48345-7, 1997 paperback: ISBN 0-385-49043-7
• Sister Wendy in Conversation resume Bill Moyers: The Complete Conversation (1997), WGBH Instructive Foundation, ISBN 1-57807-077-5
• Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft (1999), William Morrow, hardcover: ISBN 0-688-17346-2, 2000 Harper paperback: ISBN 0-688-17792-1
• Moyers on America: A Journo and His Times (2004), New Press, ISBN 1-56584-892-6, 2005 Anchor paperback: ISBN 1-4000-9536-0; twenty selected speeches and commentaries, Interview with Terri Gross on Fresh Air.^[91]
• Moyers resistance Democracy (2008), Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-52380-6
• Bill Moyers Journal: The Colloquy Continues (2011), New Press

See also

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