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Bill Moyers interviews best-selling historian Thomas Cahill in a far-ranging discussion that takes viewers from the Coliseum in Rome to death row in Texas and examines what our attitudes toward cruelty can tell us about who we are as Americans.
Bill Moyers interviews best-selling historian Thomas Cahill in a
far-ranging discussion that takes viewers from the Coliseum in
Rome to death row in Texas and examines what our attitudes toward
cruelty can tell us about who we are as Americans. Cahill, who is
best known for his The Hinges of History series of books,
which includes the widely read How the Irish Saved
Civilization . Cahill says his books ask how we became the
people we are: "It's human cruelty that is evil … We're not
willing to acknowledge that this is inside of us. It's there," he
says. "I'm really interested in … what's good about us."