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4 reviews
Bill Moyer, JoAnn McAllister, ...

New Society Publishers, 2001

Extraordinary Strategic/Tactical Guide for People Power
This book is both a strategic orientation to, and a tactical primer on, how to develop and manage non-violent social movements at the grassroots or "people power" level. The reason this book is important is because it solves the most important problem or gap facing all social movements: the lack of strategic models and methods that help activists understand, plan, conduct, and evaluate their ...

Welcome to Doomsday (New York Review Books Collection)

2 reviews
Bill Moyers

New York Review Books, 2006

This should be required reading!
Because Bush & Co have, without a doubt, diabolically turned our country upside-down, Bill Moyers book, "Welcome To Doomsday" should be required reading! Mr. Moyers, truly a national treasure, is also most certainly one of our most prolific 'thinkers' and writers. This book spares the reader empty rhetoric and redundancy but nevertheless is powerfully profound and informational -- please treat ...

Talking about Genesis

2 reviews
Bill Moyers

Main Street Books, 1996

Great resource for other perspectives
This book is a great resource for more thought. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a prominent Genesis story and features a short essay by authors from one of the 3 "descendent" religions. Some of the more interesting essays included: Reverend Leighton's "The Legacy of Cain", "Arguing with God" by Rosann Catalano on the Sacrifice of Isaac, and Francisco Garcia-Treto, a Cuban-American ...

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

3 reviews

New Press, 2007

Inequality Matters -- and How!
Midway through 2004, veteran journalist James Lardner, with the help of the Demos think tank in New York, put together the first national conference directly focused on economic inequality - the gap between America's rich and everyone else - since that gap started widening in the late 1970s. This Inequality Matters conference drew several hundred people to New York University for a weekend of ...

Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times

21 reviews
Bill Moyers

Anchor, 2005

Great Read!!!!!!
Bill Moyers is one great man. This book is a must read!!!!! P.S. McCain, Palin and the rest of the neo-cons suck big donky dong!!!!

Healing and the Mind

6 reviews
Bill Moyers

Main Street Books, 1995

A cautious look into the role of alternative medicene
A very conservative look from one angle of alternative medicene yields opinions from respected medical practioners that there is more to healing then completing your perscription on time. The last section, focussed on traditional Chinese Healing, is the most interesting, although Moyers can be a bit of a dolt with his constant questioning about "chi". Really really gets one thinking about ...

Moyers on Democracy

11 reviews
Bill Moyers

Doubleday, 2008

The Call for Truth
Bill Moyers writes with passion and outrage about the current state of affairs in America. The speeches in this book were given over a period of years from 1987 to 2007. Each speech is introduced with a current comment. Unfortunately the issues addressed haven't changed with time other than being more in need of change. My favorite speeches were the eulogies which he was asked to give for ...

The Power of Myth

130 reviews
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers

Anchor, 1991

Resonates with the song of the universe deep inside us.
I have lost track of just how many times I have listened to this set of conversations, but they never seem to grow old to me. It might be a year or more between my getting them down from the shelf, but they still completely emgross me. Perhaps that is the best indication that eternal truths are being discussed here. Mr. Campbell recorded these sessions with Bill Moyers during the last two ...

Faith Works: How to Live Your Beliefs and Ignite Positive Social Change

1 review
Jim Wallis

Random House, 2005

Jim Wallis nails it on the head
I am not an evangelist and yet I absolutely am enjoying this book. Wallis has a strong case for his beliefs and has inspired me to take a look at what I am doing to make the world a better, easier place to live in. It seems to me that a book like this, to be effective, has to touch the heart of the reader and cause that reader to take some kind of action. This book did it for me.

The Language of Life

8 reviews
Bill Moyers

Main Street Books, 1996

Poetry alive & breathing
The companion book to Moyers' PBS series "The Power of the Word" and "The Language of Life," which brought to a national audience the vigorous living poetry of a number of contemporary poets from the U.S. and abroad. Poetry is not the dead old thing critics like Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler would have us believe it is: this series, and this book, puts it into the ears and mouths of the ...

Aquainted with the Night

2 reviews

Rizzoli International Publications, 1997

A must have addition to the nocturnal's library collection
This book, which is roughly 8 inches square is a wonderful collection of night photography and selected poetry with night as it's subject matter. The photographs can stand on their own artistic merit, but the addition of the poetry makes a creative and enhancing compliment to the images. The images are sublime, moody and allow the viewer to belong momentarily in spaces that aren't normally ...

Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft

9 reviews
Bill Moyers

Harper Paperbacks, 2001

What a GREAT book!
Hi, I am someone who has loved English Literature, and struggled with it during the high school years, as English was not my mother tongue. Poetry was always the hardest to grasp. I've always wished I could get to know it better, but I've felt the high barriers time and again. Over time, I began to distance myself from Poetry and secretly hated The Art. Until this book that is! =o) Bill Moyers is ...

Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
Annie Polland

Yale University Press, 2008

New York City?s magnificent Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 in response to the great wave of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution in eastern Europe. Finding their way to the Lower East Side, the new arrivals formed a vibrant Jewish community that flourished from the 1850s until the 1940s. Their synagogue served not only as a place of worship but also as a singularly important center in the development of American Judaism. A ...

Living, Leading, and the American Dream

2 reviews
John W. Gardner

Jossey-Bass, 2003

For all those that care about democracy, this is for you.
In this time of political fear and war mongering, it is great to be reminded that dissent is not un-American and in fact it is your patriotic duty to stand up for the ideas and beliefs you hold true. And Gardner was true to his word. He stepped down from the Johnston administration to protest the war in Vietnam and went on to found Common Cause. I'd like to see a politician do that today. What ...

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis: With Excerpts from "An Essay on Watergate"
Bill Moyers, Moyers

Seven Locks Press, 2000

Based on an acclaimed PBS documentary, The Secret Government analyzes the threats to constitutional government posed by an illegitimate network of spies, profiteers, mercenaries, ex-generals and "superpatriots" who have tried, at various times, to take foreign policy into their own hands.

American Presidents
David Levine

Fantagraphics, 2008

A collection of presidential portraits in time for the election! For more than a half century, David Levine has taken on the most powerful men of the free world with only his pen and a bottle of India ink. That pen has proved to be mightier than the sword as Levine skewered, illuminated, satirized and condemned every president of the 20th century, as well as the most significant presidents from colonial times and the Civil War era. His drawing ...

Granny D: You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell

5 reviews
Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke

Villard, 2003

Authentic American citizen writing with authentic voice
Granny D is a patriot. Since her amazing walk across the country promoting campaign finance reform at the ripe young age of 90, she has resisted retiring on memories of her amazing feat. She continues her work to reform our government, and is still actively working to return the rule of our government back into the hands of "We the People", from the moneyed hands of "we the corporations. But ...

Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America

3 reviews
Jim Wallis

PageMill Press, 2001

Don't Just Stand There, Do Something!
I really liked the preview of this book. Jim says many things we have all heard before but says it so well! I too believe we need to look beyond our backdoor or comfort zones and really open our eyes to what's going on around us. By that I mean nationally and internationally. There are many things wrong in this world and unless we as Christians are willing to take up the cross of Jesus in ...

Genesis: A Living Conversation (Pbs Series)

10 reviews
Bill Moyers

Main Street Books, 1997

Illuminating conversation
When I watched the PBS series, I locked myself in the room each week so I wouldn't be disturbed. Imagine several bright, articulate folks who weren't arguing over the historicity of the Gensis accounts, but simply looking for their meaning. Moreover, all weren't Biblical scholars. Their ranks included novelists and playwrights who understand the narrative elements far better than I. As I ...

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