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Author:

Moyers, Bill D.

Title:

A world of ideas : conversations with thoughtful men and women about American life today and the ideas shaping our future / Bill Moyers ; Betty Sue Flowers, editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

c1989

Description:

xii, 513 p. : ports. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

United States--Civilization--1970-
United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.
Civilization, Modern--1950-
United States--Politics and government--1989-1993.
Interviews--United States.
Ideeëngeschiedenis.
Civilisation--1950-
Entretiens--États-Unis.
États-Unis--Civilisation--1970-
États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement--1981-1989.
États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement--1989-1993.

Other Authors:

Flowers, Betty S.

Contents:

Barbara Tuchman, historian -- Michael Josephson, ethicist -- Joseph Heller, novelist -- Noam Chomsky, linguist -- Tom Wolfe, writer -- William Julius Wilson, sociologist -- E.L. Doctorow, novelist -- Sheldon Wolin, political philosopher -- Forrest McDonald, historian -- Willard Gaylin, bioethicist -- Anne Wortham, sociologist -- T. Berry Brazelton, pediatrician -- Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, educator -- August Wilson, playwright -- Vartan Gregorian, educator -- James MacGregor Burns, historian -- John Searle, philosopher -- Arturo Madrid, educator -- Henry Steele Commager, historian -- Sissela Bok, ethicist -- Steven Weinberg, physicist -- Isaac Asimov, writer -- Robert Bellah, sociologist -- Jessica Tuchman Mathews, environmental scientist -- Chen Ning Yang, physicist -- David Puttnam, filmmaker -- Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist -- Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist -- Leon R. Kass, biologist and philosopher -- Elaine Pagels, historian of religion -- Maxine Singer, geneticist -- Peter Drucker, management professor -- F. Forrester Church, pastor -- Derek Walcott, poet -- John Lukacs, historian -- Martha Nussbaum, classicist and philosopher -- Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, writers -- Mary Ann Glendon, law professor -- Peter Berger, sociologist -- Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic -- Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist.

ISBN:

0385263465 (pbk.)
9780385263467 (pbk.)
9780385263467 (pbk.) :
0385263465 (pbk.) :
9780385262781
0385262787

LCCN:

89001109

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