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Informationen zum Autor Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, eds.; Read by various artists Klappentext Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans-from the famous to the unknown-completing the thought that begins with the book's title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others. Featuring a star-studded list of contributors that includes John McCain, Isabel Allende, and Colin Powell (as well as pieces from the original 1950's series including Helen Keller and Jackie Robinson), the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer, a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, TX and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island's parole board. The result is a stirring, funny and always provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of Americans whose beliefs, and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them, reveal the American spirit at its best. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Studs Terkel Introduction Jay Allison Be Cool to the Pizza Dude Sarah Adams Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks Phyllis Allen In Giving I Connect with Others Isabel Allende Remembering All the Boys Elvia Bautista The Mountain Disappears Leonard Bernstein How Is It Possible to Believe in God? William F. Buckley, Jr. The Fellowship of the World Niven Busch There is No Job More Important than Parenting Benjamin Carson A Journey toward Acceptance and Love Greg Chapman A Shared Moment of Trust Warren Christopher The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do Mary Cook Good Can Be as Communicable as Evil Norman Corwin A Daily Walk Just to Listen Susan Cosio The Elusive Yet Holy Core Kathy Dahlen My Father's Evening Star William O. Douglas An Honest Doubter Have I Learned Anything Important Since I Was Sixteen? Elizabeth Deutsch Earle An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man Albert Einstein The Power and Mystery of Naming Things Eve Ensler A Goal of Service to Humankind Anthony Fauci The God Who Embraced Me John W. Fountain Unleashing the Power of Creativity Bill Gates The People Who Love You When No One Else Will Cecile Gilmer The Willingness to Work for Solutions Newt Gingrich The Connection between Strangers Miles Goodwin An Athlete of God Martha Graham Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures Temple Grandin Disrupting My Comfort Zone Brian Grazer Science Nourishes the Mind and the Soul Brian Greene In Praise of the "Wobblies" Ted Gup The Power of Presence Debbie Hall A Grown-Up Barbie Jane Hamill Happy Talk Oscar Hammerstein II Natural Links in a Long Chain of Being Victor Hanson Talking with the Sun Joy Harjo A Morning Prayer in a Little Church Helen Hayes Our Noble, Essential Decency Robert A. Heinlein A New Birth of Freedom Maximilian Hodder The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges Kay Redfield Jamison There Is No God Penn Jillette A Duty to Heal Pius Kamau Living Life with "Grace and Elegant Treeness" Ruth Kamps The Light of a Brighter Day Helen Keller The Bright Lights of Freedom Harold Hongju Koh The Power of Love to Transform and Heal Jackie Lantry The Power of Mysteries Alan Lightman Life Grows in the Soil of Time Thomas Mann Why I Close My Restaurant George Mardikian The Virtues of the Quiet Hero John McCain The Joy and Enthusiasm of Reading Rick Moody There Is Such a Thing as Truth<...
