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"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th at 8pm (ET)

"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th at 12am (ET)

Archived Programs

Programs shown in this archive cover the past year. To search for programs in earlier years, please use the search functionality above.

"The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good"
Robert Frank

Last aired: January 29, 2012

"The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good"
Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
Leslie Crutchfield; John Kania

Last aired: January 23, 2012

Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
"Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family"
Laurie Sandell

Last aired: January 15, 2012

"Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family"
"Black Tuesday"
Nomi Prins

Last aired: December 18, 2011

"Black Tuesday"
"Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon"
Gretchen Morgenson; Joshua Rosner

Last aired: September 19, 2011

"Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon"
"Debt: The First 5,000 Years"
David Graeber

Last aired: September 18, 2011

"Debt: The First 5,000 Years"
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich

Last aired: September 6, 2011

"Government's Place in the Market"
Eliot Spitzer

Last aired: August 28, 2011

"Government's Place in the Market"
"23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism"
Ha-Joon Chang

Last aired: August 21, 2011

"23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism"
Make It in America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy
Andrew Liveris

Last aired: June 13, 2011

Make It in America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy
Words & Money
Andre Schiffrin

Last aired: April 4, 2011

Words & Money
A History of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1986
Alan Meltzer

Last aired: February 28, 2011

A History of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1986
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Niall Ferguson

Last aired: February 21, 2011

High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization
Gordon Brown

Last aired: February 12, 2011

Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

"Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, From the Courtroom to the Kill Zones"
Connie Rice

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism"
Carl Bogus

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful"
Glenn Greenwald

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Book TV at Georgetown University: Bonnie Morris, “Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor”
Bonnie Morris

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty"
John Barry

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, February 11th

8am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
9am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Mark Steyn
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"1812: The Navy's War"
George Daughan
4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"No Animals Were Harmed" and "Calexico!"
Peter Laufer
5pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
8pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
11pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders

Sunday, February 12th

12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA"
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
8am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
9am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders
10am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"No Animals Were Harmed" and "Calexico!"
Peter Laufer
11am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried
5:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Milosevic: A Biography"
Adam LeBor
10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter

Monday, February 13th

2am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
4am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter
5am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried

Upcoming Programs

IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's monthly interview/call-in program with an author featuring his or her body of work.  It's LIVE on the first Sunday of every month.   
In January 2011, Phyllis Bennis was our guest.  R. Emmett Tyrrell was our February 2011 guest, and MIT historian Pauline Maier appeared in March.  Ishmael Reed appeared in April, Tibor Machan in May from Los Angeles, and law professor and author Eric Posner from Chicago in June.  Native American Writer and Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan joined us in July 2011. Bestselling author and columnist Ann Coulter was our guest in August; Ellis Cose in September.  Michael Moore joined us in October, Ben Mezrich in November, and David Brooks in December.  In 2012...Chris Hedges was our guest on January 1st.
 
FEB 5  Mark Steyn

MAR 4  Randall Kennedy

MAY 6  Tom Brokaw

 

You can watch all past In Depths online by using the "Search" function in the upper left hand corner of this website.

FAIRS AND FESTIVALS

Book TV covers many book festivals each year, many of them LIVE.  In 2011, we covered festivals in Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlottesville, New York, Freedom Fest in Vegas, Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, NY, the Texas Book Festival and Miami Book Fair International in November.  You can watch those we've already covered online.  Find them using the "Search" button in the upper lefthand corner of this homepage.

Our next planned festival coverage will be the Savannah Book Festival LIVE on February 18, 2012, followed by Tucson's Book Festival on March 17, 2012.

For a complete list of upcoming book festivals, click on the BOOK FAIRS tab at the top of the page.