Book TV presents LIVE coverage from the 2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books from the University of Southern California. Our programming will include event coverage, author interviews, and viewer call-in segments.
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
2:00 PM ET
Panel: "Inconvenient Truths"
Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tabacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tabacco Smoke to Global Warming
Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Timothy Ferris, The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
3:00 PM ET
Interview/Call-in with Garrett Graff, The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror
3:30 PM ET
Panel: "History, Identity & Purpose: Califonia, Chicanos, & Beyond"
Daniel Hernandez, Down & Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Mario Garcia, Blowout!: Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
Sal Castro, Blowout!: Sal Catro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
4:30 PM ET
Interview/Call-in with Larry Flynt & David Eisenbach, One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
5:00 PM ET
Panel: "American History: Blood & Back Rooms"
Thomas Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse
Jim Newton, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made
6:00 PM ET
Interview/Call-in with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Dressmaker of Khair Khan: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
6:30 PM ET
Panel: "Boiling Point: Climate, Population, & Environment"
Mark Kurlansky, The World Without Fish: How Kids Can Help Save the Oceans
Matthew Kahn, Climatoplis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future
Judith Lewis, Journalist
Laurence Smith, The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilizations' Northern Future