About the Program
BookTV is LIVE from the 12th annual National Book Festival from the National Mall in Washington, DC. Our first day of programming includes event coverage from the history and biography pavilion and interviews and national viewer phone calls with authors that include:
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
10:00 AM ET
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
10:45 AM ET
Interview with Susan Tejada, In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
10:55 AM ET
Robert Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
11:45 PM ET
Viewer call-in with Robert Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
12:20 PM ET
Viewer call-in with Thomas Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
12:45 PM ET
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
1:30 PM ET
Interview with Stephen Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln: A Novel
1:40 PM ET
John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
2:30 PM ET
Viewer call-in with John Lewis Gaddis, George Kennan: An American Life
3:05 PM ET
Viewer call-in with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
3:30 PM ET
Fergus Bordewich, America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Nation
4:15 PM ET
Interview with Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
4:25 PM ET
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Hanoi's War: An International; History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
5:10 PM ET
Interview with Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite
5:20 PM ET
Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
David Eisenhower & Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
6:10 PM ET
Viewer call-in with Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace and David Eisenhower & Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969