Over the years millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes. His television programs covering topics ranging from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas have made him one of America s most recognized and honored journalists. In these pages, Moyers presents, for the first time, a powerful statement of his own personal beliefs political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today s politics, Moyers delivers perceptive and trenchant insights into the American...
Over the years millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes. His television programs covering topics ranging from American histo...
As he worked to build his Great Society, Lyndon Johnson often harkened back to his teaching days in the segregated "Mexican" school at Cotulla, Texas. Recalling the poverty and prejudice that blighted his students' lives, Johnson declared, "It never occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country. But now I do have that chance--and I'll let you in on a secret--I mean to use it."
This book explores the complex and...
Winner, T. R. Fehrenbach Award, 1997
As he worked to build his Great Society, Lyndon Johnson often harkened back to his teaching days ...
The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In "Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans," Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established "mutualista" associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino civil rights...
The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican ...
