A Conversational History of Modern America

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-28
Publisher(s): Perseus Books Group
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Summary

- The Open Mind has been on the air continually since 1955, and is still shown on public and commercial television stations across the nation.

Author Biography

Richard D. Heffner is University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Mario M. Cuomo
Introduction xiii
Richard D. Heffner
Power & Politics
Robert Caro
3(17)
Donald Rumsfeld
20(9)
Hendrik Hertzberg
29(6)
James MacGregor Burns
35(10)
Mario Cuomo
45(10)
William F. Buckley, Jr.
55(7)
George Soros
62(16)
Simon Schama
78(8)
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
86(14)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
100(8)
Derek Bok
108(23)
Other Voices
120(11)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Averell Harriman
Sam Rosenman
David Halberstam
John Oakes
Brian Urquhart
Richard Viguerie
Anthony Lewis
Rudolph Giuliani
The Law
Alan Dershowitz
131(8)
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
139(6)
Louis Nizer
145(5)
Rudolph Giuliani
150(8)
Harold J. Rothwax
158(9)
Linda Fairstein
167(6)
William Kunstler
173(5)
Sol Linowitz
178(11)
Other Voices
182(7)
Edward Bennett Williams
Sol Wachtler
Stephen G. Breyer
The Media
Bill Moyers
189(16)
Dan Rather
205(13)
Fred Friendly
218(9)
Don Hewitt
227(6)
Max Frankel
233(14)
Nat Hentoff
247(7)
William Safire
254(8)
Ken Auletta
262(9)
Race
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Judge J. Waties Waring
271(9)
Malcolm X, James Farmer, Wyatt Tee Walker, and Alan Morrison
280(37)
John Hope Franklin
317(6)
Kenneth Clark
323(5)
Derrick Bell
328(7)
Hugh B. Price
335(14)
Other Voices
343(6)
Stephen L. Carter
Thurgood Marshall
Women's Issues
Gloria Steinem
349(10)
Naomi Wolf
359(9)
Gail Sheehy
368(7)
Helen Gurley Brown
375(6)
Betty Friedan
381(12)
Other Voices
388(5)
Elizabeth Holtzman
Diane Feinstein
Medicine
Lewis Thomas
393(10)
Oliver Sacks
403(7)
Isadore Rosenfeld
410(16)
Kathleen Foley
426(13)
Robert Michels
439(6)
Stuart M. Berger
445(5)
Jonas Salk
450(15)
Other Voices
459(6)
Norman Cousins
Peter D. Kramer
B. F. Skinner
Popular Culture & The American Scene
Robert Redford
465(9)
Sissela Bok
474(7)
Floyd Abrams
481(9)
Norman Podhoretz
490(11)
Nicholas Lemann
501(8)
David Brown
509(5)
Oliver Stone
514(11)
Other Voices
525
Max Lerner
Harold Evans
Robert McGuire
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Norman Mailer
Howard Fast
Ralph Reed
Allan Bloom
Howard Gardner
Arthur Levine
Henry Grunwald
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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