Book Parties and Festivals

2012 National Book Festival - Sunday

All Day Coverage

About the Program

BookTV is LIVE from the 12th annual National Book Festival from the National Mall in Washington, DC. Our second day of programming includes event coverage from the history and biography pavilion and interviews and national viewer phone calls with authors that include:

12:00 - 12:45 PM ET

Susan Hertog, Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power

12:45 - 12:55 PM ET 

Interview with Steve Inskeep, Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi

12:55 - 1:40 PM ET

John Farrell, Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

1:40 - 1:50 PM ET 

Interview with Thomas Mallon, Watergate: A Novel

1:50 - 2:35 PM ET

David Maraniss, Barack Obama: The Story

 2:45 - 3:30 PM ET

Bob Woodward, The Price of Politics

3:30 - 4:05 PM ET

Viewer call-in with Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World interviewed by Steven Mufson, staff writer, The Washington Post

4:10 - 4:35 PM ET 

Viewer call-in with Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

4:35 - 5:20 PM ET

Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen

5:20 - 6:30 PM ET 

Viewer call-in with Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen

 

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2012 National Book Festival - Sunday

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Past Airings

  • Monday, September 24th at 1am (ET)
  • Sunday, September 23rd at 12pm (ET)
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