About the Program
Book TV will be LIVE at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books over the April 21-22 weekend. We will be bring you LIVE event coverage and also give you a chance to talk to several of the authors attending the festival.
Schedule for Saturday, April 21st
2pm ET: Panel – “History: War & Remembrance”
Adam Goodheart, “1861: The Civil War Awakening”
Adam Hochschild, “To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918”
Andrew Nagorski, “Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power”
3pm ET: Viewer Call-in with: Hipolito Acosta, “The Shadow Catcher: A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico’s Deadly Crime Cartels”
3:30pm ET: Panel – “Biography: The American Century”
John Farrell, “Clarence Darrow”
Jim Newton, “Eisenhower”
Richard Reeves, “Portrait of Camelot”
4:30pm ET: Viewer Call-in with: Tracie McMillan, “The American Way of Eating”
5pm ET: Panel – “Nonfiction: Narrating Disaster”
Joel Achenbach, “A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Disaster”
Robert Scheer, “The Great American Stickup"
Amy Wilentz, “Rainy Season: Haiti - Then and Now”
6pm ET: Viewer Call-in with: Benjamin Busch, “Dust to Dust: A Memoir”
6:30pm ET: Panel – “Nonfiction: Visions of the West”
Daniel Arnold, “Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounter with Legendary Mountaineers”
Deanne Stillman. “Desert Reckoning”
Susan Suntree, “Sacred Sites: The Secret History of California”
7:30pm ET: Viewer Call-in with: Steven Ross, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics”