About the Program
Book TV presents LIVE coverage from the 2010 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Our programming will include event coverage, author interviews, and viewer call-in segments.
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
1:00 PM ET
Interview/Call-in with Tim Naftali, author and director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
1:30 PM ET
Interview/Call-in with Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
2:00 PM ET
Panel: "Rising Above Oppression"
Phillip Kearney, Under the Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo
Richard Reeves, Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift – June 1948 – May 1949
Geoffrey Robinson, “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die”: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor
3:00 PM ET
Viewer Call-in, "What Would You Like to See on BookTV?"
3:30 PM ET
Panel: "The Struggle for a Better Tomorrow"
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement
Peter Schrag, Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America
Richard Rayner, A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming-of-Age
4:30 PM ET
Interview/Call-in with Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things - Updated for Our Post 9/11 World
5:00 PM ET
Panel: "The Fight for Equality"
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement
Martha Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Amy Louise Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
6:00 PM ET
Interview/Call-in with Charles Kesler, editor of The Claremont Review of Books