Encore Booknotes

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Encore Booknotes are hour-long interviews from the archives of one of the network's long-running programs, Booknotes. Encore Booknotes airs each weekend on Saturday at 6pm (ET).

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Encore Booknotes: Midge Decter "An Old Wife's Tale"
Midge Decter
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th at 6pm (ET)

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Encore Booknotes: "Speaker: Lessons from Forty Years in Coaching and Politics Denny Hastert Last aired: March 6, 2010	Encore Booknotes: "Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children" Dorie McCullough Lawson Last aired: February 27, 2010
Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780-1820 Roger Kennedy Last aired: February 20, 2010	Encore Booknotes: "PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine" Sally Satel Last aired: February 13, 2010
Encore Booknotes: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress Virginia Postrel Last aired: February 6, 2010	Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences Ward Connerly Last aired: January 30, 2010
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed The Course of WWII Jennet Conant Last aired: January 23, 2010	The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military Dana Priest Last aired: January 16, 2010
Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics Suzanne Garment Last aired: January 9, 2010	Encore Booknotes: When Hollywood Had A King Connie Bruck Last aired: January 2, 2010
The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining Sally Quinn Last aired: December 19, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Peter Bergen "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden" Peter Bergen Last aired: December 12, 2009
Encore Booknotes: J. Bowyer Bell, "The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992" J. Bowyer Bell Last aired: November 28, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Susan Butler, "East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart" Susan Bulter Last aired: November 14, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Susan Eisenhower, "Breaking Free" Susan Eisenhower Last aired: November 7, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Diane Ravitch, "Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms" Diane Ravitch Last aired: October 31, 2009
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror Richard Perle Last aired: October 24, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Andrew Sullivan, "Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality" Andrew Sullivan Last aired: October 17, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Neil Postman, "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology" Neil Postman Last aired: October 10, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Philip Short, "Mao: A Life" Philip Short Last aired: October 3, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Kurt Eichenwald, "The Informant: A True Story" - Part 2 Kurt Eichenwald Last aired: September 26, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Irving Kristol, "Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, Selected Essays 1949-1995" Irving Kristol Last aired: September 19, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Kurt Eichenwald, "The Informant: A True Story" - Part 1 Kurt Eichenwald Last aired: September 12, 2009	Encore Booknotes: David Broder, "The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point" David Broder Last aired: September 5, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Douglas Davis, "The Five Myths of Television Power" Douglas Davis Last aired: August 29, 2009	Tell Me A Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television Don Hewitt Last aired: August 22, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Nina Easton, "Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade" Nina Easton Last aired: August 15, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Iris Chang, "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II" Iris Chang Last aired: August 8, 2009
Encore Booknotes: "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" Frank McCourt Last aired: July 25, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Robert McNamara, "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" Robert McNamara Last aired: July 11, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Joyce Appleby, "Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans" Joyce Appleby Last aired: July 4, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Dorothy Rabinowitz, "No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terorrs of Our Times" Dorothy Rabinowitz Last aired: June 27, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Jon Ronson, "Them: Adventures with Extremists" Jon Ronson Last aired: June 20, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June Harrison Salisbury Last aired: June 13, 2009
D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II Stephen Ambrose Last aired: June 6, 2009	Encore Booknotes: James Perry, "A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents -- Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready James Perry Last aired: May 30, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Linda Greenlaw, "The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island" Linda Greenlaw Last aired: May 23, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Sandra Day O'Connor, "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest" Sandra Day O'Connor Last aired: May 16, 2009
Encore Booknotes: "Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It" Gina Kolata Last aired: May 9, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Nan Robertson "The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times" Nan Robertson Last aired: April 18, 2009
Encore Booknotes: David Denby "Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World" David Denby Last aired: April 11, 2009	Encore Booknotes: The Way of the WASP: How it Made America and How it Can Save It, So to Speak Richard Brookhiser Last aired: April 4, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Nat Hentoff "Speaking Freely: A Memoir" Nat Hentoff Last aired: March 28, 2009	Encore Booknotes: John Podhoretz "Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies" John Podhoretz Last aired: March 21, 2009

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.

My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 9:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.

The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.

A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America
Jon Jeter; Robert Pierre
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.

How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.

The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.

The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 2:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 min.

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.

The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, March 20th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Working in the Shadows
Gabriel Thompson

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
James McGrath Morris, "Pulitzer: A Life in Politics. Print, and Power" and Michael Wolff, "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch"
James McGrath Morris; Michael Wolff

11am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
Howard Campbell

11:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Discussion of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
Samuel Fleischacker; Russell Roberts

1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Scott Christianson

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis

4pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda
Gretchen Peters

4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
Three Days Before the Shooting...
Adam Bradley; John Callahan

6pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Encore Booknotes: Midge Decter "An Old Wife's Tale"
Midge Decter

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America
Jon Jeter; Robert Pierre

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari

9pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis

Sunday, March 21st

12:30am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains one of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Molly Caldwell Crosby

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Working in the Shadows
Gabriel Thompson

2:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen

3:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Discussion of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
Samuel Fleischacker; Russell Roberts

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Scott Christianson

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis

9:30am (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
Tracy Kidder, "Strength in What Remains"
Tracy Kidder

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Kate Pickett; Richard Wilkinson

11am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes

12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Bill & Janet Cohen, "Race & Reconciliation," interviewed by Rep. John Lewis

1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom

5pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Shane Harris

6pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Rawn James

9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

10pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser
Michael Scharf; Paul Williams

Monday, March 22nd

12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 42 min.
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Lee Smith

3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers

5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
Discussion on the Afghanistan War
Seth Jones; Mark Moyar

6:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari

7am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

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IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's long form LIVE interview call-in program with one author discussing his or her body of work. It airs on the first Sunday of every month, beginning at Noon ET. You can watch previous episodes of In Depth online. In 2010 so far, Michelle Malkin, Paul Johnson, and T.R. Reid have been our guests. You can watch those online.

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Book Festivals

Book TV will be covering several book festivals this spring, including LIVE coverage of the Tucson Book Festival March 13-14, and the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville later in March. In April, plans for coverage include the Annapolis Book Festival as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Fair.