“Sensible and persuasive. . . . [Moyers is] a very decent man and excellent journalist whose incisive, rational observations we need right now.” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Nothing short of an aroused public can change things, nothing less than democracy is at
stake.” –Bill Moyers
“Bill Moyers speaks for, and to, the conscience of our nation.” –Walter Cronkite
“Honorable. . . . Heroic. . . . A bracing read.” –Austin American-Statesman
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Preface to the Anchor Books Edition
Editor’s Note
PART ONE: America Now
A Shiver Down the Spine
A Time for Anger
This Is Your Story. Pass It On.
Which America Will We Be Now?
—One Year Later
—War Is War
Crossing the Euphrates
PART TWO: The Soul of Democracy
The Declaration in Our Times
Many Faiths, One Nation
The Soul of Democracy
—Democracy in Peril
Wearing the Flag
PART THREE: The Media
Journalism Under Fire
The Making of a Journalist
Journalism and Democracy
Countering the Bastard Muses
The Fight of Our Lives
—Public Access in Peril
PART FOUR: Looking Back
Where the Jackrabbits Were
Empty Nest
Second Thoughts
Good Friend
Aging
