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With his wife and partner, Judith, who is president of Public
Affairs Television, he has produced hundreds of hours of programming
for public television including FACING EVIL, IN SEARCH OF
THE CONSTITUTION, THE SECRET GOVERNMENT....THE CONSTITUTION
IN CRISIS, GOD AND POLITICS, JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND THE POWER OF
MYTH, A WORLD OF IDEAS, THE PUBLIC MIND, A GATHERING OF MEN
WITH ROBERT BLY, AMAZING GRACE, THE SONGS ARE FREE WITH BERNICE
JOHNSON REAGON, PROJECT CENSORED, SPORTS FOR SALE, THE ARAB
WORLD, ALL OUR CHILDREN, THE POWER OF THE WORD, BEYOND HATE,
THE HOME FRONT, SPIRIT AND NATURE, SPECIAL REPORT: AFTER THE
WAR, 20 YEARS OF LISTENING TO AMERICA, CIRCLE OF RECOVERY, FACING
HATE WITH ELIE WIESEL, MINIMUM WAGES, HATE ON TRIAL, FAMILIES
FIRST, LISTENING TO AMERICA (an election-year series), AND,
THE GREAT HEALTH CARE DEBATE, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT VIOLENCE?,
THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE, THE WISDOM OF FAITH WITH HUSTON SMITH,
GENESIS, CLOSE TO HOME: MOYERS ON ADDICTION, and most recently,
FACING THE TRUTH, FREE SPEECH FOR SALE, FOOLING WITH WORDS,
THE SOUNDS OF POETRY and ON OUR OWN TERMS.
In addition to his 1971 best-selling book, LISTENING TO AMERICA
four of Moyers' books based on his television series have also
become bestsellers: JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND THE POWER OF MYTH, A
WORLD OF IDEAS l and ll, and HEALING AND THE MIND. His other
books include REPORT FROM PHILADELPHIA (celebrating the Bicentennial
of the Constitution), THE SECRET GOVERNMENT, GENESIS, and FOOLING WITH WORDS: A CELEBRATION OF POETS AND THEIR CRAFT.
Before entering broadcasting Moyers was Deputy Director of the
Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administration and Special Assistant
to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963-1967, including two
years as White House press secretary (a recent survey of readers
of American Journalism Review named Moyers "the best White
House press secretary of all time.") He left the White
House in January 1967 to become publisher of Newsday. For
12 years Moyers was a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and currently is president of The Florence and John Schumann Foundation. He
is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Organization of American
Historians.
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas, Mr. Moyers began his varied
career as a cub reporter on the Marshall News Messenger at age
16. He is a graduate of the University of Texas, which has presented
him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award, and holds the Master
of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Moyers' wife, Judith Davidson, an education specialist and corporate
director, is his partner and creative collaborator and is president
of their production company, Public Affairs
Television, Inc. They have three grown children.
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