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"Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood"
Donovan Campbell
"Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood"
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
2013 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Mutiple Authors
2013 Gaithersburg Book Festival
BookTV in Columbia, South Carolina
BookTV Visits Columbia, South Carolina
BookTV in Columbia, South Carolina
"Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life"
Lanny Davis
"Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life"
Book Party for Lanny Davis, author of "Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life"
Lanny Davis
Book Party for Lanny Davis, author of "Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life"
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
After Words: Diana West, "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character"
After Words: Diana West, "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character"
"Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II"
John Geoghegan
"Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II"
"The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir"
Marina von Neumann Whitman
"The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir"
"Payback: The Case for Revenge"
Thane Rosenbaum
"Payback: The Case for Revenge"
After Words: Christian Caryl, "Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century," hosted by Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy Magazine
After Words: Christian Caryl, "Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century," hosted by Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy Magazine
Book TV at Stanford University: Deborah Rhode, "The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law"
Deborah Rhode
Book TV at Stanford University: Deborah Rhode, "The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law"
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Abraham Sofaer, "Taking on Iran"
Abraham Sofaer
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Abraham Sofaer, "Taking on Iran"
"Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down"
Dave Zirin
"Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down"
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Larry Elder, author of "Dear Father, Dear Son"
Larry Elder
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Larry Elder, author of "Dear Father, Dear Son"
"The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism"
Theda Skocpol; Vanessa Williamson
"The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism"
2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Interview with Elizabeth Price Foley, "The Tea Party: Three Principles"
Elizabeth Price Foley
2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Interview with Elizabeth Price Foley, "The Tea Party: Three Principles"
Book TV in London: Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee
Book TV in London: Hermione Lee
Book TV in London: Charles Emmerson
Charles Emmerson
Book TV in London: Charles Emmerson
"Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"
Neil Gross
"Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"
"Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead"
Sheryl Sandberg
"Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead"
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Luis J. Rodriguez, author of "It Calls You Back"
Luis J. Rodriguez
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Luis J. Rodriguez, author of "It Calls You Back"
"Light Without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College"
Scott Korb
"Light Without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College"
Book Party for David Stockman, Author of "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
David Stockman
Book Party for David Stockman, Author of "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
"The Good Rich and What They Cost Us"
Robert Dalzell
"The Good Rich and What They Cost Us"
"Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance"
George Michael
"Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance"

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Highlights
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Looking at Iran: The Rise & Fall of Iran in Public Opinion"
James Zogby
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

Also Airing...

Sunday, May 26th
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson
2:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth"
Les Leopold
4am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler
6:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
"Payback: The Case for Revenge"
Thane Rosenbaum
7:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation"
Eric Deggans
9am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
10am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
11am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"If You Knew Me You Would Care"
Rennio Maifredi (Photographer); Zainab Salbi
12pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Diana West, "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character"
1pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
1:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Panel on Good Wars, Bad Wars with Dale Maharidge and Nick Turse
Dale Maharidge; Nick Turse
3pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II"
John Geoghegan
3:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own"
Mika Brzezinski
5pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
Book Party for John Guntzelman, "The Civil War in Color: A Photographic Reenactment of the War Between the States"
John Guntzelman
6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
9pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
10pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"Looking at Iran: The Rise & Fall of Iran in Public Opinion"
James Zogby

Monday, May 27th
12am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
1am (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
2am (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
2:30am (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
3am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement"
David Graeber
5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Black Russian"
Vladimir Alexandrov
9:45am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America"
Laurie Edwards
10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir"
Marina von Neumann Whitman
12pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power"
Victor Navasky
1pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Moises Naim, "The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be," hosted by Lillian Cunningham
2pm (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
Book Party for David Stockman, Author of "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
David Stockman
2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
4pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Larry Elder, author of "Dear Father, Dear Son"
Larry Elder
5pm (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Amy Goodman
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre
10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson
11:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler

Tuesday, May 28th
1am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
2am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 3 min.
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Philip Roth
Philip Roth et al.
4:15am (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
Book TV in London: Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee
4:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
A Conversation with Edward Jay Epstein and Errol Morris
Edward Jay Epstein; Errol Morris
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
"Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward Levi"
Jack Fuller

Upcoming Programs

IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's monthly interview/call-in program with an author featuring his or her body of work.  It's LIVE on the first Sunday of every month.   

Jun 2 Rick Atkinson     http://liberationtrilogy.com/
July 7  Mary Roach       www.maryroach.net
Aug 4  Dr. Ben Carson www.carsonschholars.org
 

You can watch all past In Depths online by using the "Search" function in the upper left hand corner of this website.

FAIRS AND FESTIVALS

Book TV covers many book festivals each year, many of them LIVE.  In 2013, our festival coverage will include book festivals in Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlottesville, New York, Freedom Fest in Vegas, Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, NY, Harlem Book Festival, the Texas Book Festival and Miami Book Fair International in November.  You can watch those we've already covered online.  Find them using the "Search" button in the upper lefthand corner of this homepage.

For a complete list of upcoming book festivals, click on the BOOK FAIRS tab at the top of the page.