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Saturday, May 10, 2008 - Monday, May 12, 2008
Saturday at 10:00 PM, Sunday at 6:00 PM, Sunday at 9:00 PM, Monday at 12:00 AM, and Monday at 3:00 AM
After Words: Gen. Rupert Smith, "The Utility of Force" interviewed by Winslow Wheeler
Saturday at 8:00 AM
Who's Your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
Author:
Richard Florida
Saturday at 9:00 AM
In Depth: Alice Walker
Public Lives
Saturday at 12:00 PM
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735-1918
Author:
Richard Brookhiser
History
Saturday at 1:00 PM
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Author:
Steven Johnson
History
Saturday at 2:00 PM
Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
Author:
Adam Clymer
Politics
Saturday at 3:00 PM
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
Authors:
Ed Gray; L. Patrick Gray III
History
Saturday at 4:00 PM
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
Authors:
Bruce Schulman; Julian Zelizer
History
Saturday at 5:30 PM
Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House
Author:
Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson
Saturday at 6:00 PM
Encore Booknotes: The Father of Spin
Author:
Larry Tye
Saturday at 7:00 PM, and Sunday at 1:45 AM
Tribute to Philip Roth
Author:
Philip Roth
Saturday at 8:45 PM
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Author:
Aaron David Miller
Saturday at 11:00 PM, and Sunday at 3:00 PM
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Author:
Daoud Hari
History
Sunday at 12:00 AM, Sunday at 6:00 AM, and Sunday at 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion on the political career of Melvin Laird with Dale Van Atta, author of "With Honor," Jeremi Suri, author of "Henry Kissinger and the American Century," and George Herring author of "America's Longest War"
Authors:
George Herring; Jeremi Suri; Dale Van Atta
Politics
Sunday at 3:30 AM, and Sunday at 11:15 AM
The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud
Author:
Lawrence Solomon
Public Lives
Sunday at 4:30 AM, and Sunday at 1:00 PM
The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Author:
Aram Roston
Sunday at 7:45 AM, and Sunday at 10:00 PM
Days of Infamy
Authors:
William Forstchen; Newt Gingrich
Sunday at 9:00 AM, and Monday at 6:30 AM
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Author:
Jeffrey Sachs
Public Lives
Sunday at 10:30 AM
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times and Rise to Power
Author:
Marc Sandalow
Sunday at 12:00 PM
After Words: Wrong on Race, Bruce Bartlett interviewed by Clarence Page
Sunday at 2:15 PM, and Sunday at 11:15 PM
Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow
Author:
Jim Hightower
Politics
Sunday at 7:00 PM, and Monday at 1:00 AM
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence"
Author:
Robert Bryce
Politics
Monday at 2:30 AM
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Author:
Douglas Feith
History
Monday at 4:00 AM
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
Authors:
Paul Kendrick; Stephen Kendrick
History
Monday at 5:00 AM
Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Author:
David Reynolds
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In Depth: Alice Walker
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Author:
Paul Collier
History
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Author:
Pope Brock
EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World
Author:
Mark Skousen
For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton - The White House Years
Author:
Sally Bedell Smith
History
Understanding America
Authors:
Peter Schuck; James Wilson
History
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters from FDR to George W. Bush
Author:
Robert Schlesinger
History
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
Authors:
Jill Tietjen; Charlotte Waisman
History
The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Author:
David Hajdu
Down Home: Dispatches from Dixie
Author:
Bob Dart
History
Discovery!: The Search for Arabian Oil
Authors:
Tim Barger; Thomas Lippman; Wallace Stegner (deceased)
History
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
Authors:
Paul Kendrick; Stephen Kendrick
After Words: Wrong on Race, Bruce Bartlett interviewed by Clarence Page
History
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
Authors:
Bruce Schulman; Julian Zelizer
Politics
Against the Tide
Author:
Lincoln Chafee
Politics
Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11
Author:
David Horowitz
Politics
Pure Goldwater
Author:
Barry Goldwater, Jr. and John Dean
Politics
The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud
Author:
Lawrence Solomon
Writing Discussion with Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King
Authors:
Owen King; Stephen King; Tabitha King
Politics
Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
Author:
Erika Falk
Politics
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
Author:
Shelby Steele
A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life
Author:
J. Craig Venter