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"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th at 4am (ET)
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"

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"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
Last aired: May 11, 2013
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
"Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency"
Logan Beirne
Last aired: April 21, 2013
"Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency"
"Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage"
Nicholas Wapshott
Last aired: April 15, 2013
"Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage"
"Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage"
Jeffrey Frank
Last aired: March 30, 2013
"Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage"
"Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America's Greatest President"
Chris DeRose
Last aired: March 25, 2013
"Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America's Greatest President"
Tony Kushner, "Lincoln: The Screenplay" & Harold Holzer, "Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America - A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film"
Harold Holzer; Tony Kushner
Last aired: March 16, 2013
Tony Kushner, "Lincoln: The Screenplay" & Harold Holzer, "Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America - A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film"
"Assassination Vacation"
Sarah Vowell
Last aired: March 3, 2013
"Assassination Vacation"
"Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady"
Mary Brennan
Last aired: February 17, 2013
"Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady"
"Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents"
Paul Dickson
Last aired: February 2, 2013
"Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents"
"Barack Obama: The Story"
David Maraniss
Last aired: January 21, 2013
"Barack Obama: The Story"
"Presidential Power in Troubled Second Terms: A Historical Look at the Second Term"
Alfred Zacher
Last aired: January 21, 2013
"Presidential Power in Troubled Second Terms: A Historical Look at the Second Term"
"Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861"
Harold Holzer
Last aired: January 20, 2013
"Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861"
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power"
Jon Meacham
Last aired: January 14, 2013
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power"
"Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year"
David Von Drehle
Last aired: January 14, 2013
"Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year"
The Abraham Lincoln Institute 5th Annual Symposium
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Last aired: January 13, 2013
The Abraham Lincoln Institute 5th Annual Symposium
"Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy"
Ellen Fitzpatrick; Caroline Kennedy; Tom Oliphant; Ted Widmer
Last aired: January 6, 2013
"Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy"
"Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World"
Evan Thomas
Last aired: January 6, 2013
"Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World"
"Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves"
Henry Wiencek
Last aired: January 5, 2013
"Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves"
"Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal"
William Chafe
Last aired: January 1, 2013
"Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal"
"John Quincy Adams"
Harlow Giles Unger
Last aired: December 25, 2012
"John Quincy Adams"
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Stephen Frantzich, "O.O.P.S.: Observing Our Politicians Stumble"
Stephen Frantzich
Last aired: November 24, 2012
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Stephen Frantzich, "O.O.P.S.: Observing Our Politicians Stumble"
"Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932"
Donald Ritchie
Last aired: November 4, 2012
"Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932"
Book TV at FreedomFest: Edward Klein, "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House"
Edward Klein
Last aired: November 4, 2012
Book TV at FreedomFest: Edward Klein, "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House"
"I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism"
Charles Kesler
Last aired: November 3, 2012
"I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism"
"First Cameraman: Documenting the Obama Presidency in Real Time"
Arun Chaudhary
Last aired: October 8, 2012
"First Cameraman: Documenting the Obama Presidency in Real Time"
"FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal"
James Simon
Last aired: September 8, 2012
"FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal"
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - Jean Edward Smith, "Eisenhower in War and Peace"
Jean Edward Smith
Last aired: September 5, 2012
"American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama"
Rachel Swarns
Last aired: September 1, 2012
"American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama"
"The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity"
Michael Duffy; Nancy Gibbs
Last aired: August 31, 2012
"The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity"
"Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians"
Robert Merry
Last aired: August 29, 2012
"Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians"
"Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign"
Stanley Weintraub
Last aired: August 27, 2012
"Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign"
"Selecting a President"
Eleanor Clift; Matthew Spieler
Last aired: August 26, 2012
"Selecting a President"
"The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century"
Steven Watts
Last aired: July 22, 2012
"The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century"
"American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America"
Michelle Obama
Last aired: July 5, 2012
"American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America"
"American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"
Jon Meacham
Last aired: June 10, 2012
"American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"
"James Madison and the Making of America"
Kevin Gutzman
Last aired: June 2, 2012
"James Madison and the Making of America"
"Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency"
Mark Updegrove
Last aired: May 29, 2012
"Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency"

Book TV Schedule

Highlights
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Looking at Iran"
James Zogby
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, May 25th
8am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East"
David Rohde
9am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Dennis Prager, author of "Still the Best Hope"
Dennis Prager
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Simpler: The Future of Government"
Cass Sunstein
11:15am (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
2013 Gaithersburg Book Festival: John Turner, "Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet"
John Turner
11:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead"
Sheryl Sandberg
1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
"Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"
Neil Gross
3pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr.
2013 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Panel on "Coming Home: The Hopes, Fears, and Challenges of Veterans Returning from War"
Col. Jon Coffin (Ret.); Karl Marlantes; Dave McIntyre; James Wright
5pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Many Unhappy Returns: One Man's Quest to Turn Around the Most Unpopular Organization in America"
Charles Rossotti
6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Tom Philpott, "Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest Held Prisoner of War"
Tom Philpott
7pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
9pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle
10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
11pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld

Sunday, May 26th
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson
2:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth"
Les Leopold
4am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler
6:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
"Payback: The Case for Revenge"
Thane Rosenbaum
7:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation"
Eric Deggans
9am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
10am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
11am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"If You Knew Me You Would Care"
Rennio Maifredi (Photographer); Zainab Salbi
12pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Diana West, "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character"
1pm (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
1:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Panel on Good Wars, Bad Wars with Dale Maharidge and Nick Turse
Dale Maharidge; Nick Turse
3pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II"
John Geoghegan
3:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own"
Mika Brzezinski
5pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
Book Party for John Guntzelman, "The Civil War in Color: A Photographic Reenactment of the War Between the States"
John Guntzelman
6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
10pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
11pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Looking at Iran"
James Zogby

Monday, May 27th
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
1am (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
2am (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
2:30am (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement"
David Graeber
5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Black Russian"
Vladimir Alexandrov
9:45am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America"
Laurie Edwards
10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir"
Marina von Neumann Whitman
12pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power"
Victor Navasky
1pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Moises Naim, "The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be," hosted by Lillian Cunningham
2pm (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
Book Party for David Stockman, Author of "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
David Stockman
2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
4pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Larry Elder, author of "Dear Father, Dear Son"
Larry Elder
5pm (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Amy Goodman
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre
10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson
11:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler

Tuesday, May 28th
1am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
2am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 3 min.
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Philip Roth
Philip Roth et al.
4:15am (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
Book TV in London: Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee
4:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
A Conversation with Edward Jay Epstein and Errol Morris
Edward Jay Epstein; Errol Morris
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
"Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward Levi"
Jack Fuller

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.   

Jun 2 Rick Atkinson     http://liberationtrilogy.com/
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.