Hollings to be on PBS show Friday

Former U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., will appear 9 p.m. Friday, July 25, on Bill Moyers Journal, a nationally-televised program on PBS that looks at public policy issues that impact democracy.

In June, the University of South Carolina Press published a new book by Hollings, Making Government Work, in which he highlights how government and its programs can work to make life better for Americans. The book is instructive to students about the process of governing, as Hollings explains in the introduction:

"Government has gone off course. We refuse to pay our bills. Instead we accumulate more debt. We waste billions in interest costs that buy nothing. Our manufacturing base is decimated. All the while casualties continue in a battle for a cause the country thinks a mistake. The Congress flounders in dangerous waters. The greed of capitalism has reached compatibility with the greed of politics. The capitalist is divorced from country to seek profit, and the politician is divorced from country to seek contributions. Desperate needs are ignored.

"Despite these problems, this is no time to despair. The government might be in a standoff, but the country is strong. As I show in this book, government has worked before, and we can make it work again."

• Read an excerpt from the book about making government work in Washington
  
  
• An excerpt about making government work in South Carolina