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Coming Up on Book TV

"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th at 2pm (ET)

"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"

Archived Programs

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

"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried

Last aired: February 5, 2012

"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
"Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam"
Lewis Sorley

Last aired: November 25, 2011

"Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam"
"Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base"
Annie Jacobsen

Last aired: September 10, 2011

"Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base"
"The Warrior Ethos"
Steven Pressfield

Last aired: September 4, 2011

"The Warrior Ethos"
"Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds"
Maj. Rusty Bradley

Last aired: September 4, 2011

"Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds"
"To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918"
Adam Hochschild

Last aired: July 10, 2011

"To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918"
16th Annual Colby Military Writers’ Symposium: Panel on the Afghanistan War
Christopher Coppola; Karl Marlantes; Donna McAleer; Doug Stanton

Last aired: June 13, 2011

16th Annual Colby Military Writers’ Symposium: Panel on the Afghanistan War
Donald Rumsfeld "Known and Unknown: A Memoir"
Donald Rumsfeld

Last aired: May 30, 2011

Donald Rumsfeld "Known and Unknown: A Memoir"
This Time We Win : Revisiting the Tet Offensive
James Robbins

Last aired: May 22, 2011

This Time We Win : Revisiting the Tet Offensive
2011 Virginia Festival of the Book Panel: "An American War in Asia"
Ira Hunt Jr.; James Zumwalt

Last aired: May 15, 2011

2011 Virginia Festival of the Book Panel: "An American War in Asia"
The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It
Thomas Christie; Franklin C. Spinney; Pierre Sprey

Last aired: May 8, 2011

The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It
Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
David Philipps

Last aired: April 10, 2011

Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
The Military-Industrial Complex - 50 Years Later with William Hartung and David Eisenhower
David Eisenhower; William Hartung

Last aired: April 10, 2011

The Military-Industrial Complex - 50 Years Later with William Hartung and David Eisenhower
New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah
Richard Lowry

Last aired: February 22, 2011

New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah
Beyond the Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg

Last aired: February 21, 2011

Beyond the Killing Fields
Rage Company: A Marine's Baptism By Fire
Thomas Daly

Last aired: February 20, 2011

Rage Company: A Marine's Baptism By Fire

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.