Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas
Moyers sat down with Asimov, Chomsky, Achebe and Tuchman in 1988, at a length and seriousness American broadcast television has not attempted since.
Transcripts of Moyers’s 1988 public-television conversations with writers, scientists and philosophers, including Asimov, Chomsky, Achebe and Barbara Tuchman, conducted at a length and seriousness that broadcast television has not attempted since. The format was simply two people talking for as long as the subject required, and the effect is of a country arguing with itself in good faith.
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In 1988, Bill Moyers produced a series of intelligent, inspiring, provocative conversations with a diverse set of cultural icons, ranging from Isaac Asimov to Noam Chomsky to Chinua Achebe. It was unlike any public discourse to have ever graced the national television airwaves before. The following year, the interviews were transcribed and collected in the magnificent tome Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas (public library).
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