Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate - Softcover

Williams, Juan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307952029 ISBN 13: 9780307952028

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2012

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Muzzled scores some righteous points about the need for an honest national dialogue."--Los Angeles Times

In Muzzled, Juan Williams uses his very public firing from NPR as a launching pad to discuss the countless ways in which honest debate in America is stifled. In today's partisan world, where media provocateurs rule the airwaves and political correctness dictates what can and cannot be said with impunity, Williams shows how the honest exchange of ideas and the search for solutions and reasonable compromise is deliberately muzzled. Among the issues denied a full-throated discussion are racial profiling, the increased reliance on religious beliefs in debating American values and legislation, the nuances of an immigration policy gone awry, the uneasy balance between individual freedom and our desire for security against terrorism, and much more.

Delivering a fierce, fresh look at the critical importance of an open airing of controversial issues, Williams argues that only by bringing such hot-button topics into the light of day can we hope to grapple with them, and exercise our cherished, hard-won right of free speech.

About this title

About the Author

Juan Williams, one of America's leading journalists, is a political analyst for Fox News, a regular panelist on Fox Broadcasting's Sunday morning public affairs program, Fox News Sunday, and a columnist for Fox News online and for The Hill. He hosted NPR's Talk of the Nation and has anchored Fox News Channel's weekend daytime news coverage. A former senior correspondent and political analyst for National Public Radio, he is the author of the bestselling book Enough; the critically acclaimed biography Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary; and the national bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, the companion volume to the critically acclaimed television series. During his twenty-one-year career at The Washington Post, Williams served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House reporter. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly, Ebony, Gentlemen's Quarterly, and The New Republic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307952029
• ISBN 13: 9780307952028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304