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This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

Book Party for Senator Alan Simpson and Donald Hardy, "Shooting from the Lip: The Life of Senator Al Simpson"
Donald Hardy

Next air time: Saturday, February 25th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007"
Matt Wasniewski

Next air time: Saturday, February 25th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 4 min.
"Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline"
Morris Berman

Next air time: Saturday, February 25th, at 11am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America"
Writers for the 99%

Next air time: Sunday, February 26th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Book TV at Georgetown University: Chandra Manning, “What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War”
Chandra Manning

Next air time: Sunday, February 26th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 25 min.
"While America Sleeps: A Wake-Up Call for the Post-9/11 Era"
Russ Feingold

Next air time: Sunday, February 26th, at 2pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways To Dismantle And Replace Obamacare"
Sally Pipes

Next air time: Sunday, February 26th, at 3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"Guantanamo: An American History"
Jonathan Hansen

Next air time: Saturday, February 25th, at 3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
2012 Savannah Book Festival - Karl Marlantes, "What It Is Like To Go To War"
Karl Marlantes

Next air time: Sunday, February 26th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It"
Jeffrey Clements

Next air time: Sunday, February 26th, at 11:20pm (ET)
Approx. 38 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, February 25th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime"
Joseph Sassoon
9:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried
10:30am (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
"King Larry: The Life and Ruins of a Billionaire Genius"
James Scurlock
11am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline"
Morris Berman
12pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 4 min.
"Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007"
Matt Wasniewski
2pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons"
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"Guantanamo: An American History"
Jonathan Hansen
7pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 4 min.
"Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007"
Matt Wasniewski
9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline"
Morris Berman

Sunday, February 26th

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010"
Charles Murray
3:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime"
Joseph Sassoon
4:45am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons"
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
5:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline"
Morris Berman
7am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 4 min.
"Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007"
Matt Wasniewski
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"Guantanamo: An American History"
Jonathan Hansen
2pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"While America Sleeps: A Wake-Up Call for the Post-9/11 Era"
Russ Feingold
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways To Dismantle And Replace Obamacare"
Sally Pipes
4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America"
Writers for the 99%
10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways To Dismantle And Replace Obamacare"
Sally Pipes

Monday, February 27th

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"While America Sleeps: A Wake-Up Call for the Post-9/11 Era"
Russ Feingold
6:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways To Dismantle And Replace Obamacare"
Sally Pipes

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.   
In January 2011, Phyllis Bennis was our guest.  R. Emmett Tyrrell was our February 2011 guest, and MIT historian Pauline Maier appeared in March.  Ishmael Reed appeared in April, Tibor Machan in May from Los Angeles, and law professor and author Eric Posner from Chicago in June.  Native American Writer and Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan joined us in July 2011. Bestselling author and columnist Ann Coulter was our guest in August; Ellis Cose in September.  Michael Moore joined us in October, Ben Mezrich in November, and David Brooks in December.  In 2012...Chris Hedges was our guest on January 1st, and Mark Steyn appeared on February 5, 2012.
 
MAR 4  Randall Kennedy

MAY 6  Tom Brokaw

 

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 2011, we covered festivals in Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlottesville, New York, Freedom Fest in Vegas, Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, NY, 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.

Our next planned festival coverage will be the Savannah Book Festival LIVE on February 18, 2012, followed by Tucson's Book Festival on March 17, 2012.

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