Bill Moyers

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June 05, 1934 in Hugo, Oklahoma, The United States

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Billy Don "Bill" Moyers is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965-1967. He worked as a news commentator on television for ten years. Moyers had an extensive involvement with public television, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the U.S. media. Since 1990, Moyers has been President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. He lives in New York City, New York, United States.

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Michael Winship: Bill Moyers Has a New Book. I Helped. Please Read.

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Bill Moyers Has a New Book. I Helped. Please Read.

By Michael Winship

Bill Moyers has a new book out. In the interest of full disclosure, I edited the book with him and co-wrote its introduction. And in the interest of what may seem to be shameless self-promotion, I urge you to read it.

If you don't buy Bill Moyers Journal: The Conv...

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Books by Bill Moyers

Average rating: 4.26 · 12,203 ratings · 734 reviews · 58 distinct works

	The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets 4.35 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Moyers on Democracy 4.26 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Healing and the Mind 4.03 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS Series) by Bill Moyers, Betty Sue Flowers (Editor), Judith Davidson Moyers (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times 3.89 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues 4.39 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft 4.10 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future by Bill Moyers, Betty Sue Flowers 4.13 avg rating — 68 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	A World of Ideas II by Bill Moyers, Andie Tucher (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Welcome to Doomsday (New York Review Books Collection) by Bill Moyers, Bill McKibben 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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Quotes by Bill Moyers

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”
― Bill Moyers

tags: empowerment , freedom , ownership

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“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”
― Bill Moyers

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“America's corporate and political elites
now form a regime of their own and
they're privatizing democracy. All the
benefits - the tax cuts, policies and
rewards flow in one direction: up.”
― Bill Moyers

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