2004 Carey McWilliams Award

Presented each year to honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.

2004 Award Committee: Russell Hardin, New York University; Steve Sanders, Indiana University; and Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago.

Recipient: Bill Moyers, Public Affairs Television

Citation: Bill Moyers is among the best known and most widely followed of all political commentators over the past few decades. His television shows, interviews with major and lesser known figures, and his efforts to pull general themes together have graced our lives since his departure from partisan political activity in the period of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. He not only covers the most important issues of the day, he commonly brings novel perspectives to them and he makes them part of a coherent overall history of our age. For many Americans he has been among the most important sources of our knowledge and understanding of major social and political trends. We honor him with the 2004 Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association as he has honored us with his insights, his even-handedness, and his care for the issues of our time.