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"The Good Rich and What They Cost Us"
Robert Dalzell

Last aired: May 20, 2013

"The Good Rich and What They Cost Us"
"The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority"
Lori Wallach

Last aired: May 12, 2013

"The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority"
"Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity"
Jacqui Dunne; Bernard Lietaer

Last aired: April 27, 2013

"Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity"
"Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth"
Peter Blair Henry

Last aired: April 20, 2013

"Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth"
"Back to Full Employment"
Robert Pollin

Last aired: April 8, 2013

"Back to Full Employment"
"The Devil at Our Doorstep"
David Bego

Last aired: April 8, 2013

"The Devil at Our Doorstep"
"The AIG Story"
Maurice Greenberg

Last aired: March 31, 2013

"The AIG Story"
"Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data"
Charles Wheelan

Last aired: February 11, 2013

"Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data"
"Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope"
Cory Booker; Tina Kelley; Kevin Ryan

Last aired: January 22, 2013

"Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope"
"The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times"
Arlie Hochschild

Last aired: December 30, 2012

"The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times"
"Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence"
William Silber; Paul Volcker

Last aired: December 24, 2012

"Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence"
"The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs"
George W. Bush; James K. Glassman

Last aired: December 23, 2012

"The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs"
"America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy"
James Gustave Speth

Last aired: December 9, 2012

"America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy"
A Conversation on the State of the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz & Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman; Joseph Stiglitz

Last aired: December 1, 2012

A Conversation on the State of the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz & Paul Krugman
"Who Stole the American Dream?"
Hedrick Smith

Last aired: November 11, 2012

"Who Stole the American Dream?"
"Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West"
Ruben Martinez

Last aired: October 7, 2012

"Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West"
"Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget"
David Wessel

Last aired: September 30, 2012

"Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget"
"So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America"
Peter Edelman

Last aired: September 29, 2012

"So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America"
FreedomFest 2012: The Big Debate - "Wall Street on Trial"
Robert Frank; Stephen Moore

Last aired: September 16, 2012

FreedomFest 2012: The Big Debate - "Wall Street on Trial"
"Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles"
Ruchir Sharma

Last aired: August 30, 2012

"Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles"
"The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise"
Arthur Brooks

Last aired: August 26, 2012

"The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise"
"Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy"
Rev. Robert Sirico

Last aired: August 4, 2012

"Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy"
"Finance and the Good Society"
Robert Shiller

Last aired: June 23, 2012

"Finance and the Good Society"

Book TV Schedule

Highlights

Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Morris Fiorina, "Culture War?: The Myth of a Polarized America"
Morris Fiorina

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 17 min.
Book TV in London: Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 6pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV in London: Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
The National Security Agency Before and After 9/11
Multiple Authors

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 10am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Interview with Scott Turow, President of the Authors Guild
Scott Turow

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Book and Author Breakfast
Helen Fielding; Diana Gabaldon; John Lewis; Chris Matthews

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 12:15pm (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Ishmael Beah, "Radiance of Tomorrow"
Ishmael Beah

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 15 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Panel - "Self-Publishing: Disruptor or Defender of the Book Business?"
Angela James; Christopher Kenneally; James McQuivey; Keith Ogorek

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Wendy Lower, "Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields"
Wendy Lower

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 2:15pm (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
Book TV Interview: Conrad Black, "Flight of the Eagle"
Conrad Black

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns"
Ralph Nader

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization"
Mary Eberstadt

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
"Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield"
Jeremy Scahill

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Immigration Stories"
Various Authors

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't"
Robert Kaiser

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 41 min.
"A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg"
Jeff Shaara

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"When Armies Divide: The Security of Nuclear Arsenals During Revolts, Coups, and Civil Wars"
Brian Michael Jenkins

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 34 min.
"Chinese Girl in the Ghetto"
Ying Ma

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, June 22nd

8am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973"
Kathleen Frydl
9am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"And the Mountains Echoed"
Khaled Hosseini
10am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
The National Security Agency Before and After 9/11
Multiple Authors
12:15pm (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Book and Author Breakfast
Helen Fielding; Diana Gabaldon; John Lewis; Chris Matthews
1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Panel - "Self-Publishing: Disruptor or Defender of the Book Business?"
Angela James; Christopher Kenneally; James McQuivey; Keith Ogorek
7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Book TV Interview: Conrad Black, "Flight of the Eagle"
Conrad Black
7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns"
Ralph Nader
9pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization"
Mary Eberstadt
11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield"
Jeremy Scahill

Sunday, June 23rd

12:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream"
Deepak Chopra; Sanjiv Chopra
2am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Book TV in London: Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong
3:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
5am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
"Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal"
Michael D'Antonio
8:15am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Hammarskjold: A Life"
Roger Lipsey
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Immigration Stories"
Various Authors
4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg"
Jeff Shaara
6pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV in London: Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Book TV in London: Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum
10pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Book TV Interview: Conrad Black, "Flight of the Eagle"
Conrad Black
10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"Chinese Girl in the Ghetto"
Ying Ma

Monday, June 24th

2am (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV in London: Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
2:30am (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Book TV in London: Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum
4am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization"
Mary Eberstadt

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.   

July 7  Mary Roach       www.maryroach.net
Aug 4  Dr. Ben Carson www.carsonschholars.org
 

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 2013, our festival coverage will include book festivals in Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlottesville, New York, Freedom Fest in Vegas, Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, NY, Harlem Book Festival, 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.

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