Book Parties and Festivals

2011 Tucson Festival of Books

Event Coverage

About the Program

Book TV will be LIVE on Saturday, March 12 and Sunday, March 13 from the 2011 Tucson Festival of Books on the campus of the University of Arizona.  

Sunday Schedule

 1:00 PM ET 

Panel: Right On! Far Out!  Looking Back at the 60's

Mark Rudd, My Life with SDS and the Weathermen

Martha Tod Dudman, Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning

Joyce Maynard, Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties

 

2:30 PM ET

Panel: Epic Stories: Journalists Write the American West

Jeff Guinn, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Michael Hiltzik, Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

Stephen Fried, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West

 

4:00 PM ET 

Erwin Chermerinsky, fouding dean of the University of Cal-Irvine Law School and author of The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

 

5:30 PM ET 

Pulitzer Prize Winner T.J. Stiles in conversation with Paul Hutton

T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Paul Hutton, Phil Sheridan & His Army

 

7:00 PM ET

Panel: Obama, Politics, and Religion

Kate Kenski, co-author, The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election

Kevin Coe, The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America

 

Program Information

2011 Tucson Festival of Books

Past Airings

  • Monday, March 14th at 1am (ET)
  • Sunday, March 13th at 1pm (ET)
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