"I never met anyone who could better tell a story. Listening to Joseph Campbell talk of primal societies, I was transported to the wide plains under the great dome of the open sky, or to the forest dense, beneath a canopy of trees, and I began to understand how the voices of the gods spoke from the wind and thunder, and the spirit of God flowed in every mountain stream, and the whole earth bloomed as a sacred place -- the realm of mythic imagination." -- Bill Moyers Joseph Campbell, who died on October 31, 1987, was the world's foremost authority on mythology, a preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher whose work has had a profound influence on millions. To him, mythology was "the song of the universe, the music of the spheres." In THE POWER OF MYTH, he and distinguished journalist Bill Moyers offer a brilliant combination of wisdom and wit in conversations that range from modern marriage ("Marriage is a relationship. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship") to virgin births, from savior figures to heroic figures such as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars ("...By overcoming the dark passions, the hero symbolizes our ability to control the irrational savages within us"). THE POWER OF MYTH is a great summing up of Joseph Campbell'S work, sure to stand alongside his two celebrated classics The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God and his recent The Atlas of World Mythology. Joseph Campbell began his career in 1934 as an instructor at Sarah Lawrence College, ivhere he taught for almost forty years, and where the Joseph Campbell Chair in Comparative Mythology was established in his honor. Bill Moyers is an acclaimed television journalist, widely respected for his work both at CBS News and at PBS, where one of his primary efforts has been to bring to television outstanding thinkers of our time. Betty Sue Flowers teaches poetry and myth at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author and co-author of several books, including Browning and the Modern Tradition, Four Shields of Power, and Daughters and Fathers.