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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)

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Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight Karl Rove Last aired: March 15, 2010	A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America Jon Jeter; Robert Pierre Last aired: February 28, 2010
Definining Conservatism: The Principles that Will Bring Our Country Back Jonathan Krohn Last aired: February 22, 2010	You've Come a Long Way, Maybe Leslie Sanchez Last aired: February 21, 2010
The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 Joel Kotkin Last aired: February 21, 2010	Author Interview: Gerald Pops "Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times" Gerald Pop Last aired: February 16, 2010
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime Mark Halperin; John Heilemann Last aired: February 16, 2010	Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda Michael Steele Last aired: February 15, 2010
Reappraising the Right: The Past & Future of American Conservatism George Nash Last aired: February 14, 2010	Clean Energy Common Sense (Program Portion) Frances Beinecke Last aired: February 7, 2010
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress Howard Zinn Last aired: January 31, 2010	Essays Wallace Shawn Last aired: January 24, 2010
Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What it Will Take for a Woman to Win Anne Kornblut Last aired: January 23, 2010	Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a Perfect Union David Swanson Last aired: January 10, 2010
Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future Barbara Berg Last aired: January 3, 2010	Obamanos: The Birth of a New Political Era Hendrik Hertzberg Last aired: December 27, 2009
Watch Online: Oliver North "American Heroes" Oliver North Last aired: December 21, 2009	The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Last aired: December 20, 2009
Author and Journalist Panel on Health Care Multiple Authors Last aired: December 20, 2009	Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family and Religion Ended the Reagan Era John Kenneth White Last aired: December 13, 2009
Whores: How and Why I Came to Fight the Establishment Larry Klayman Last aired: December 5, 2009	71 Days: The Media Assault on Obama Michael Jason Overstreet Last aired: November 29, 2009
Commonwealth Michael Hardt Last aired: November 29, 2009	Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold Theresa Amato; James Bennett Last aired: November 29, 2009
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe Last aired: November 29, 2009	The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star Matthew Continetti Last aired: November 23, 2009
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove Max Cleland Last aired: November 8, 2009	Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea and To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face Robert Churchill; Joshua Horwitz Last aired: November 1, 2009
Ron Paul Book Tour for "End the Fed" Ron Paul Last aired: November 1, 2009	We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism John Derbyshire Last aired: October 31, 2009
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party Max Blumenthal Last aired: October 25, 2009	2009 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award: Philip Hamburger, author of "Law and Judicial Duty" Philip Hamburger Last aired: October 25, 2009
Why Are Jews Liberals? Norman Podhoretz Last aired: October 24, 2009	Michael Barone, Co-author, The Almanac of American Politics 2010 Michael Barone Last aired: October 17, 2009
Tahoe Boy: A Journey Back Home Pat Hickey Last aired: October 11, 2009	The Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs Robert Spencer Last aired: October 11, 2009
The Death of Conservatism Sam Tanenhaus Last aired: October 11, 2009	The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Last aired: October 5, 2009
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin Last aired: October 4, 2009	The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege and How We Can Be Safe Again Tom Ridge Last aired: September 28, 2009
Safire's Political Dictionary William Safire Last aired: September 27, 2009	The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) Last aired: September 27, 2009
Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies Michelle Malkin Last aired: September 7, 2009	2009 Book Expo America: Alex Jones, "Losing the News" Alex Jones Last aired: September 6, 2009
Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change Dan Fleshler Last aired: August 22, 2009	The Death of Why: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy Andrea Batista Schlesinger Last aired: August 17, 2009
Catastrophe: How Obama, Congress and the Special Interests are Transforming a Slump Into a Crash, Freedom into Socialism, and a Disaster into a Catastrophe Eileen McGann; Dick Morris Last aired: August 16, 2009	Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple Secure Solution for America Ezekiel Emanuel Last aired: August 9, 2009
The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election Dan Balz; Haynes Johnson Last aired: August 9, 2009	The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity Matt Miller Last aired: July 27, 2009
Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them Steve Milloy Last aired: July 5, 2009	The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty Helen Knowles Last aired: July 3, 2009
And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America Mary Frances Berry Last aired: June 28, 2009	Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey William Least Heat-Moon Last aired: June 27, 2009
Voting Rights--and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections Abigail Thernstrom Last aired: June 21, 2009	Life Equity: Realize Your True Value and Pursue Your Passions at Any Stage in Life Marsha Blackburn Last aired: June 7, 2009
Renegade: The Making of a President Richard Wolffe Last aired: June 7, 2009	Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces that Put it in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America Russ Baker Last aired: May 11, 2009
The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens E. Fuller Torrey Last aired: May 2, 2009	Book TV Civics Bus - Walter Benn Michaels, "The Trouble with Diversity" Walter Benn Michaels Last aired: April 19, 2009
Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders Jason Riley Last aired: April 5, 2009	The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream John Zogby Last aired: April 5, 2009
United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror Jamie Glazov Last aired: March 29, 2009	Slavoj Zizek, "Violence" and Bernard-Henri Levy, "Left In Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism" Bernard-Henri Levy; Slavoj Zizek Last aired: March 28, 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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