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The Great Depression: A Diary James Ledbetter; Daniel Roth Next air time: Saturday, February 13th at 2pm (ET)	Redcoats' Revenge: An Alternate History of the War of 1812 David Fitz-Enz Next air time: Sunday, February 14th at 5am (ET)
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams Panel of Speakers Next air time: Monday, February 15th at 11:30am (ET)	Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America Craig Shirley Next air time: Monday, February 15th at 10pm (ET)

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Stealth Reconstruction: An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History Glen Browder; Artemesia Stanberry Last aired: February 8, 2010	Garrett Peck Prohibition Hangover Program Portion Garrett Peck Last aired: February 7, 2010
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America Don Lattin Last aired: February 6, 2010	Guantanamo, USA: The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost Stephen Schwab Last aired: February 6, 2010
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America Timothy Egan Last aired: February 1, 2010	Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s Stefan Bradley Last aired: January 31, 2010
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane Walter Isaacson Last aired: January 31, 2010	Dr. Seuss & Co. Go To War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's Leading Comic Artists Andre Schiffrin Last aired: January 31, 2010
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery (Portion) Robert Poole Last aired: January 31, 2010	Author Interview: Michael Cecere "Great Things Are Expected From The Virginians" Michael Cecere Last aired: January 30, 2010
Temperance Tour of Washington, DC with Garrett Peck author of "The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet" Garrett Peck Last aired: January 24, 2010	John Brown's Trial Brian McGinty Last aired: January 17, 2010
Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power Gene Dattel Last aired: January 17, 2010	A New Literary History of America Greil Marcus; Werner Sollors Last aired: January 10, 2010
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant Carol Berkin Last aired: January 10, 2010	Tour of Arlington National Cemetery with Robert Poole author of "On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery" Robert Poole Last aired: January 3, 2010
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 Gordon Wood Last aired: January 2, 2010	Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America Craig Shirley Last aired: December 28, 2009
The Black Book: 35th Anniversary Edition Panel Discussion Last aired: December 27, 2009	General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah 1864 Stanley Weintraub Last aired: December 27, 2009
My Father's Bonus March Adam Langer Last aired: December 26, 2009	A Tour of Mount Vernon with Scott Casper, author of "Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine" Scott Casper Last aired: December 21, 2009
An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson Andro Linklater Last aired: December 7, 2009	The Great Depression: A Diary James Ledbetter; Daniel Roth Last aired: December 6, 2009
Carlotta Walls LaNier, "A Mighty Long Way" and Terrence Roberts, "Lessons from Little Rock" Carlotta Walls LaNier; Terrence Roberts Last aired: November 27, 2009	The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss Charles Eagles Last aired: November 27, 2009
Author Interview: Robert Miller "Native America, Discovered and Conquered" Robert Miller Last aired: November 9, 2009	The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South W. Ralph Eubanks Last aired: November 8, 2009
Author Interview: Aaron Sheehan-Dean "Why Confederates Fought" Aaron Sheehan-Dean Last aired: November 1, 2009	The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business Nelson Lichtenstein Last aired: October 31, 2009
Redcoats' Revenge: An Alternate History of the War of 1812 David Fitz-Enz Last aired: October 31, 2009	2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE - Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City Greg Grandin Last aired: October 25, 2009
Washington Journal - Lewis Sorley, "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam" Lewis Sorley Last aired: October 24, 2009	David Helvarg: "Rescue Warriors: U.S.Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes David Helvarg Last aired: October 18, 2009
The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell Last aired: October 17, 2009	Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism Roy Harris Jr.; Elizabeth Mehren; Sacha Pfeiffer Last aired: October 17, 2009
The Further Adventures of a Lucky Dog: Owney, U.S. Rail Mail Mascot Dirk Wales Last aired: October 17, 2009	Author Interview: Stephen Beckham "Oregon Indians" Stephen Beckham Last aired: October 17, 2009
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution Lars Schoultz Last aired: October 12, 2009	This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America John Grisham Last aired: October 12, 2009
A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age Richard Rayner Last aired: October 11, 2009	The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War Nicholas Thompson Last aired: October 11, 2009
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride Daniel James Brown Last aired: October 4, 2009	The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta Marc Wortman Last aired: October 4, 2009
How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education That Made Them Daniel Wolff Last aired: September 20, 2009	Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and its Prosecution in Nineteenth Century New York Donna Dennis Last aired: September 20, 2009
A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters' Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home Peter Nelson Last aired: September 20, 2009	Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i Tom Coffman Last aired: September 20, 2009
The American Future: A History Simon Schama Last aired: September 19, 2009	Letters from Black America Pamela Newkirk Last aired: September 14, 2009
Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire Gerard Koeppel Last aired: September 13, 2009	Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent David Clary Last aired: September 13, 2009
Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century Randy Shaw Last aired: September 8, 2009	The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter Jason Kersten Last aired: September 8, 2009
The State of Jones Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer Last aired: September 8, 2009	A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge Josh Neufeld Last aired: September 6, 2009
The War Behind Me: Inside the Army's Secret Archive of Investigations Deborah Nelson Last aired: August 23, 2009	A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight Robert Mrazek Last aired: August 22, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Joseph Lowndes "From the New Deal to the New Right" Joseph Lowndes Last aired: August 17, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Hasan Kwame Jeffries "Bloody Lowndes" Hasan Kwame Jeffries Last aired: August 16, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Miriam Greenberg "Branding New York" Miriam Greenberg Last aired: August 16, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Christopher Capozzola "Uncle Sam Wants You" Christopher Capozzola Last aired: August 15, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Marcia Purcell Marcia Purcell Last aired: August 15, 2009	The Road to Woodstock: From the Man Behind the Legendary Festival Michael Lang Last aired: August 15, 2009
All the News Unfit to Print: How Things Were...and How They Were Reported Eric Burns Last aired: August 10, 2009	Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath Elizabeth Norman; Michael Norman Last aired: July 27, 2009
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Henry Louis Gates Last aired: July 26, 2009	Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban Amerinca Beryl Satter Last aired: July 26, 2009
The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled Vincent Bzdek Last aired: July 26, 2009	Vicksburg, 1863 Winston Groom Last aired: July 26, 2009
1959: The Year Everything Changed Fred Kaplan Last aired: July 26, 2009	The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence Dennis Brindell Fradin Last aired: July 5, 2009
1776 David McCullough Last aired: July 5, 2009	Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Simon Schama Last aired: July 5, 2009
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army Paul Lockhart Last aired: July 5, 2009	Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War Edwin Burrows Last aired: July 5, 2009
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation Nancy Rubin Stuart Last aired: July 5, 2009	Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America David Taylor Last aired: July 5, 2009
Visions of America: Photographing Democracy Joseph Sohm Last aired: July 5, 2009	Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling Last aired: July 4, 2009
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation Ray Raphael Last aired: July 4, 2009	The Food of a Younger Land Mark Kurlansky Last aired: June 29, 2009
Book TV Bus - Linda Gugin, "Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography" Linda Gugin Last aired: June 21, 2009	American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon Steven Rinella Last aired: June 21, 2009
Book TV Bus - Susan Levine, "School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program" Susan Levine Last aired: June 20, 2009	Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West Deanne Stillman Last aired: June 15, 2009
Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage Edith Gelles Last aired: June 14, 2009	Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City James Nevius; Michelle Nevius Last aired: May 31, 2009
Book TV Civics Bus - Dennis Judd, "Cities and Visitors" Dennis Judd Last aired: May 30, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Lubna Qureshi "Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende" Lubna Qureshi Last aired: May 30, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Nancy Toff Nancy Toff Last aired: May 30, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Deborah Gershenowitz Deborah Gershenowitz Last aired: May 30, 2009
I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation Bruce Chadwick Last aired: May 26, 2009	Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 Elizabeth Varon Last aired: May 25, 2009
Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing Arnie Bernstein Last aired: May 25, 2009	Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust Edwin Black Last aired: May 23, 2009
Book TV Bus - Eric Arnesen, Editor, "The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation" Eric Arnesen Last aired: May 17, 2009	The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 Helene Cooper et al. Last aired: May 17, 2009
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line Martha Sandweiss Last aired: May 17, 2009	Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution Richard Beeman Last aired: May 17, 2009
Book TV Bus - Harrison Schmitt, Author, "Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space" Harrison Schmitt Last aired: May 10, 2009	No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings - A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics Robert Shogan Last aired: May 10, 2009
Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History Alan Huffman Last aired: May 10, 2009	The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby Last aired: May 9, 2009
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War David Williams Last aired: May 3, 2009	A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East - from the Cold War to the War on Terror Patrick Tyler Last aired: May 3, 2009
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction Douglas Blackmon Last aired: April 25, 2009	The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History and 2008 National Book Award for Non-Fiction Annette Gordon-Reed Last aired: April 25, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Ray Smock "Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow" Ray Smock Last aired: April 20, 2009	Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan Kim Phillips-Fein Last aired: April 18, 2009
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States Stephen Mihm Last aired: April 4, 2009	Book TV Bus - Mildred Armstrong Kalish "Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression" Mildred Armstrong Kalish Last aired: April 4, 2009
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 George Herring Last aired: April 4, 2009	Almost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Dream Tanya Lee Stone Last aired: March 30, 2009
Book TV Bus - Peter Golenbock, "In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World" Peter Golenbock Last aired: March 22, 2009	The Irish Americans: A History Jay Dolan Last aired: March 15, 2009
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans Dan Baum Last aired: March 15, 2009	Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement Ron Robinson Last aired: March 8, 2009
Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace Mark Perry Last aired: March 7, 2009	America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, The Race to the Pole, The Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation Jim Rasenberger Last aired: March 7, 2009
Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee Timothy Egan Last aired: March 2, 2009	Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War Robert Roper Last aired: March 2, 2009
The Trial of Standing Bear Frank Keating Last aired: March 1, 2009	Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard Newman Last aired: February 22, 2009
Ark of the Liberties: America and the World Ted Widmer Last aired: February 22, 2009	A Short History of the United States Robert Remini Last aired: February 15, 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. 45 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. 45 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 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.

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April--John Dean

Book Festivals

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