The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis: With Excerpts from "An Essay on Watergate"

Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1988. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. xvii, [1], 131, [3] p. Illustrations. This work was adapted from two PBS programs. Reading List. Index. Introduction by Henry Steele Commager. Billy Don "Bill" Moyers (born June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media. In 1987 Moyers produced and hosted a scathing documentary, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, covering the infringement on the limitations on government and the executive branch provided by the Constitution. It considered U.S. foreign policy and militarism historically and recently, centering on the Iran Contra affair. It was harshly rebuked by conservatives.