"A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer""" Based on the NPR series of the same name, "This I Believe" features eighty Americans--from the famous to the unknown--completing the thought that the book's title begins. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others.
Featuring many renowned contributors--including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike--the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on Rhode Island's parole board.
The result is a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs--and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them--reveal the American spirit at its best.
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (This I Believe, #1)
Authors: Jay Allison, Dan Gediman, Studs Terkel, Phyllis Allen, Isabel Allende, Elvia Bauista, Leonard Bernstein, William F. Buckley Jr., Nven Busch, Benjamin Carson, Greg Chapman, Warren Christopher, Mary Cook, Kathy Dahlen, William O. Douglas, Elizabeth Deutsch Earle, Albert Einstein, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Anthony S. Fauci, John W. Fountain, Cecile Gilmer, Newt Gingrich, Brian Grazer, Brian Greene, Ted Gup, Norman Corwin, Susan Cosio, Miles Goodwin, Martha Graham, Temple Grandin, Debbie Hall, Jane Hamill, Oscar Hammerstein II, Victor Hanson, Joy Harjo, Helen Hayes, Robert A. Heinlein, Maximillian Hodder, Kay Redfield Jamison, Penn Jillette, Pius Kamau, Ruth Kamps, Helen Keller, Harold Hongju Koh, Jackie Lantry, Alan Lightman, Thomas Mann, George Mardikian, John McCain, Rick Moody, Errol Morris, Michael Mullane, Cecilia Muñoz, Azar Nafisi, Gregory Orr, Eboo Patel, Steve Porter, Colin Powell, Frederic G. Reamer, Jamaica Ritcher, Josh Rittenberg, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mel Rusnov, Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sanger, Colleen Shaddox, Jason Sheehan, Mark Shields, Wallace Stegner, Gloria Steinem, Andrew Sullivan, Deirdre Sullivan, Harold Taw, Arnold J. Toynbee, John Updike, Loudon Wain Wright III, Frank X. Walker, Rebecca West, Jody Williams, Edward R. Murrow
