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A world of ideas : conversations with thoughtful men and women about American life today and the ideas shaping our future
- 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.
- Author
- Moyers, Bill D.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | E169.12 .M69 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Flowers, Betty S.
- Description
- xii, 513 p. : ports.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Interviews with Chinua Achebe, Isaac Asimov, Mary Catherine Bateson, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, Sissela Bok, T. Berry Brazelton, James MacGregor Burns, Noam Chomsky, F. Forrester Church, Henry Steele Commager, E.L. Doctorow, Peter F. Drucker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Northrop Frye, Carlos Fuentes, Willard Gaylin, Mary Ann Glendon, Vartan Gregorian, Joseph Heller, Michael Josephson, Leon R. Kass, Sara Lightfoot, John Lukacs, Forrest McDonald, Arturo Madrid, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Martha Nussbaum, Elaine Pagels, David Puttnam, John Searle, Maxine Singer, Barbara Tuchman, Derek Walcott, Steven Weinberg, August Wilson, William Julius Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Sheldon Wolin, Anne Wortham, C.N. Yang.
- Subject
- Since 1950
- Civilization, Modern > 1950-
- Interviews > United States
- 15.85 history of America
- Civilization
- Civilization, Modern
- Interviews
- Politics and government
- Ideeëngeschiedenis
- Interviewing
- United States > Civilization > 1970-
- United States > Politics and government > 1981-1989
- United States > Politics and government > 1989-1993
- United States
- United States > Civilization
- United States > Politics and government > 1974-1977
- Genre/Form
- Interview
- interviews.
- Interviews.
- 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
- 0385262787
- 9780385262781
- 0385263465
- 9780385263467
- LCCN
- 89001109
- OCLC
- ocm19264895
- 19264895
- SCSB-9538253
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library