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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Ethan Watters
Next air time: Sunday, February 14th at 11am (ET)

The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama
Len Colodny; Tom Shachtman
Next air time: Monday, February 15th at 1am (ET)

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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Last aired: February 7, 2010	Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded - and What We Need to Do to Remake Them John Perkins Last aired: February 7, 2010
Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box Madeleine Albright Last aired: February 7, 2010	Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser Michael Scharf; Paul Williams Last aired: February 7, 2010
Panel on Withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan Ivan Eland; Peter Galbraith; Charles Pena Last aired: February 6, 2010	Forces of Fortune - The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World Vali Nasr Last aired: February 1, 2010
The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama Len Colodny; Tom Shachtman Last aired: January 31, 2010	Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche Ethan Watters Last aired: January 30, 2010
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order Martin Jacques Last aired: January 25, 2010	A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa Dominique Lapierre Last aired: January 25, 2010
The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking Kenneth Weinstein Last aired: January 25, 2010	The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream Patrick Radden Keefe Last aired: January 24, 2010
Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington Ann Louise Bardach Last aired: January 24, 2010	Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda John Mueller Last aired: January 23, 2010
The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights Irene Khan Last aired: January 18, 2010	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Peter Sis Last aired: January 17, 2010
The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village Dongping Han Last aired: January 10, 2010	The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law Mark Denbeaux (co-editor); Jonathan Hafetz (co-editor) Last aired: January 10, 2010
The Arabs: A History Eugene Rogan Last aired: January 10, 2010	On Compromise and Rotten Compromises Avishai Margalit Last aired: January 3, 2010
Enough to Go Around: Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Darfur Chip Duncan Last aired: December 27, 2009	Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan Ali Eteraz Last aired: December 26, 2009
Panel on Ann Dunham's "Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia" Ann Dunham Last aired: December 20, 2009	Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime Rana Husseini Last aired: December 13, 2009
First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia David Gibbs Last aired: December 6, 2009	The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation Thomas Reed Last aired: December 6, 2009
One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy Allison Stanger Last aired: November 28, 2009	Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Jane Goodall Last aired: November 27, 2009
Marked for Death: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places Terry Gould Last aired: November 15, 2009	Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World Jean Sasson Last aired: November 8, 2009
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran Azadeh Moaveni Last aired: November 2, 2009	Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Nicholas Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn Last aired: November 2, 2009
The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable David Cole Last aired: November 1, 2009	Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History John Limbert Last aired: October 26, 2009
The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond Last aired: October 26, 2009	Watch Online: Azadeh Moaveni "Honeymoon in Tehran" Azadeh Moaveni Last aired: October 25, 2009
Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Ahmed Rashid Last aired: October 18, 2009	The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday Neil MacFarquhar Last aired: October 18, 2009
Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China Rebiya Kadeer Last aired: October 18, 2009	My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran Haleh Esfandiari Last aired: October 17, 2009
The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget Andrew Rice Last aired: October 4, 2009	In the Graveyard of Empires Seth Jones Last aired: September 28, 2009
Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader Marcela Grad Last aired: September 28, 2009	The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West Dore Gold Last aired: September 27, 2009
Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years Michael Chertoff Last aired: September 26, 2009	Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia David Vine Last aired: September 21, 2009
The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days Karen Greenberg Last aired: September 19, 2009	Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI Peter Lance Last aired: September 6, 2009
Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope Elizabeth Roberts; John Roberts Last aired: August 23, 2009	The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage Alexandra Harney Last aired: August 9, 2009
The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East Joshua Muravchik Last aired: August 9, 2009	Gay Travels in The Muslim World Michael Luongo (ed.) Last aired: August 2, 2009
Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China Diane Wei Liang Last aired: August 2, 2009	One Second After William Forstchen Last aired: August 2, 2009
American Power and the New Mandarins - 40th Anniversary Talk Noam Chomsky Last aired: August 1, 2009	Iran: Another Intelligence Failure in the Making Robert Baer; Keith Crane; Ali Nader Last aired: July 12, 2009
Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Future of Cuba Reese Erlich Last aired: July 12, 2009	Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It Rachel Ehrenfeld Last aired: July 12, 2009
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed Michael Meyer Last aired: June 28, 2009	How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida Seth Jones; Martin Libicki Last aired: June 22, 2009
Travel as a Political Act Rick Steves Last aired: June 21, 2009	We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work Jimmy Carter Last aired: June 20, 2009
Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World Joel Rosenberg Last aired: June 14, 2009	The Next Hundred Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century George Friedman Last aired: June 13, 2009
The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America Michael Rowan Last aired: June 7, 2009	The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases Ross Donaldson Last aired: June 7, 2009
Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine Jonathan Schanzer Last aired: June 7, 2009	The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel Last aired: May 4, 2009
Great Powers:America and the World After Bush Thomas P.M. Barnett Last aired: May 3, 2009	Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law Nonie Darwish Last aired: April 19, 2009
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror Mahmood Mamdani Last aired: April 19, 2009	Engaging the Muslim World Juan Cole Last aired: April 19, 2009
The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation Marwan Muasher Last aired: March 16, 2009	Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force - The NYPD Christopher Dickey Last aired: March 7, 2009
The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution Daniel Erikson Last aired: March 1, 2009	Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World Alexandra Avakian Last aired: February 22, 2009

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Micheline Maynard
Next air time: Saturday, February 13th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
Henry Paulson
Next air time: Saturday, February 13th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

After Words: Garry Wills, "Bomb Power" interviewed by Tom Blanton
Next air time: Saturday, February 13th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
Michael Steele
Next air time: Sunday, February 14th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

Yalta: The Price of Peace
S.M. Plokhy
Next air time: Sunday, February 14th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 41 min.

The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama
Len Colodny; Tom Shachtman
Next air time: Monday, February 15th, at 1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 25 min.

Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War
Romesh Ratnesar
Next air time: Saturday, February 13th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.

Panel on the American Presidency with Gary May, "John Tyler," William Leuchtenburg, "Herbert Hoover," and Timothy Naftali, "George H.W. Bush"
William Leuchtenburg; Gary May; Timothy Naftali
Next air time: Monday, February 15th, at 4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.

What Obama Means for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
Jabari Asim
Next air time: Monday, February 15th, at 12:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 33 min.

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Harlow Unger
Next air time: Tuesday, February 16th, at 7am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, February 13th

8am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
Danielle Ofri

9am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 58 min.
In Depth: Paul Johnson

12pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
2009 Miami Book Fair: Gwen Ifill, "The Break-Through"
Gwen Ifill

1pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War
Romesh Ratnesar

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
The Great Depression: A Diary
James Ledbetter; Daniel Roth

3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989
Steven Hayward

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z
Richard Milner

6pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Encore Booknotes: "PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine"
Sally Satel

7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Micheline Maynard

8pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande

9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
Henry Paulson

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Garry Wills, "Bomb Power" interviewed by Tom Blanton

11pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
Danielle Ofri

Sunday, February 14th

1am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Barry Lynn

2am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Micheline Maynard

2:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Reappraising the Right: The Past & Future of American Conservatism
George Nash

4am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
2009 Miami Book Fair: Gwen Ifill, "The Break-Through"
Gwen Ifill

5am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
Redcoats' Revenge: An Alternate History of the War of 1812
David Fitz-Enz

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z
Richard Milner

7:15am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin

8am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose - Doing Business By Respecting the Earth
Ray Anderson

9am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Barry Lynn

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
Henry Paulson

11am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Ethan Watters

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Joseph Stiglitz, "Freefall" interviewed by Lori Wallach

1pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
Michael Steele

2pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Micheline Maynard

2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
Ending the War in Afghanistan: A Primer
Phyllis Bennis

4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin

5pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
Henry Paulson

6pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
2009 Miami Book Fair: Norman Podhoretz, "Why Are Jews Liberals?"
Norman Podhoretz

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 41 min.
Yalta: The Price of Peace
S.M. Plokhy

9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Garry Wills, "Bomb Power" interviewed by Tom Blanton

11pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
Michael Steele

Monday, February 15th

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Garry Wills, "Bomb Power" interviewed by Tom Blanton

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 25 min.
The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama
Len Colodny; Tom Shachtman

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Garry Wills, "Bomb Power" interviewed by Tom Blanton

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 41 min.
Yalta: The Price of Peace
S.M. Plokhy

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
Ending the War in Afghanistan: A Primer
Phyllis Bennis

7am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
Michael Steele

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
H.W. Brands

9:45am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemmings Sex Scandal
William Hyland Jr.

10:30am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War
Romesh Ratnesar

11:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Panel of Speakers

12:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 33 min.
What Obama Means for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
Jabari Asim

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
1960 LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
David Pietrusza

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
Tell Me of Lincoln: Memories of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Life in Old New York
William Styple

4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Panel on the American Presidency with Gary May, "John Tyler," William Leuchtenburg, "Herbert Hoover," and Timothy Naftali, "George H.W. Bush"
William Leuchtenburg; Gary May; Timothy Naftali

6pm (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemmings Sex Scandal
William Hyland Jr.

6:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
Robert Dallek, author of "Harry S. Truman" and James Mann, author of "The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan"
Robert Dallek; James Mann

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 33 min.
What Obama Means for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
Jabari Asim

10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
Craig Shirley

11pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
Matthew Algeo

Tuesday, February 16th

12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Mark Halperin; John Heilemann

1am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
1960 LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
David Pietrusza

2am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
The Kennedy Assassination - 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President
Steven Gillon

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 25 min.
The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama
Len Colodny; Tom Shachtman

4:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
Robert Dallek, author of "Harry S. Truman" and James Mann, author of "The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan"
Robert Dallek; James Mann

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
John Adams by David McCullough
David McCullough

7am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Harlow Unger

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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 and Paul Johnson have been our guests.

March--T.R. Reid

April--John Dean

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.