Patrick Watson

Patrick Watson is a writer, director, actor, television host, and interviewer. He was the co-creator and host of the twelve-part PBS television series "The Struggle for Democracy" (1989): a series that has aired in more than thirty countries around the world, including the merging free countries of Eastern Europe. Chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1989 to 1994, he is now creative director of the CRB Foundation's Heritage Project and commissioning editor, documentaries, for...See more

Patrick Watson is a writer, director, actor, television host, and interviewer. He was the co-creator and host of the twelve-part PBS television series "The Struggle for Democracy" (1989): a series that has aired in more than thirty countries around the world, including the merging free countries of Eastern Europe. Chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1989 to 1994, he is now creative director of the CRB Foundation's Heritage Project and commissioning editor, documentaries, for History Television. Benjamin R. Barber is the Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science and the director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University. He was the co-writer of the international television series "The Struggle for Democracy" and its companion volume. He is the author of fourteen books, including the classic "Strong Democracy," most recently "Jihad vs. McWorld," and the forthcoming Clinton memoir, "Speak Truth to Power: Intellectuals in the Clinton White House," See less