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"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)
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th at 10pm (ET)

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"Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed A Nation"
Jonathan Rieder
Last aired: May 12, 2013
"Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed A Nation"
"Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas"
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Last aired: May 12, 2013
"Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas"
"Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time"
Ira Katznelson
Last aired: May 5, 2013
"Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time"
"Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers"
Lee Sandlin
Last aired: May 5, 2013
"Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers"
"The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America"
Ernest Freeberg
Last aired: April 29, 2013
"The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America"
"Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America"
Sam Roberts
Last aired: April 28, 2013
"Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America"
Book TV at American University: Allan Lichtman, "FDR and the Jews"
Allan Lichtman
Last aired: April 22, 2013
Book TV at American University: Allan Lichtman, "FDR and the Jews"
"The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57"
John Maclean
Last aired: April 20, 2013
"The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57"
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Stephanie McCurry, "Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South"
Stephanie McCurry
Last aired: April 15, 2013
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Stephanie McCurry, "Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South"
Book TV at American University: Richard Stack, "Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions"
Richard Stack
Last aired: April 15, 2013
Book TV at American University: Richard Stack, "Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions"
"Remember: The Journey to School Integration"
Toni Morrison
Last aired: April 14, 2013
"Remember: The Journey to School Integration"
Robert Remini (1921-2013), "At the Edge of Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union"
Robert Remini
Last aired: April 7, 2013
Robert Remini (1921-2013), "At the Edge of Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union"
"Taps on the Walls: Poems from the Hanoi Hilton"
Maj. Gen. John Borling (Ret)
Last aired: April 7, 2013
"Taps on the Walls: Poems from the Hanoi Hilton"
"Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"
Joshua Bloom; Waldo Martin
Last aired: April 6, 2013
"Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"
"Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition & the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974"
Gordon Mantler
Last aired: April 6, 2013
"Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition & the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974"
"Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare"
Stephen Budiansky
Last aired: March 31, 2013
"Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare"
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
Jennet Conant
Last aired: March 24, 2013
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
"Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple at the Second War of Independence"
Hugh Howard
Last aired: March 16, 2013
"Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War: America's First Couple at the Second War of Independence"
"The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures"
Edward Ball
Last aired: March 16, 2013
"The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures"
"This Is the Day: The March on Washington"
Michael Eric Dyson; Paul Farber; Brigitte Freed
Last aired: March 3, 2013
"This Is the Day: The March on Washington"
"Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America"
Peter Andreas
Last aired: March 2, 2013
"Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America"
"Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865"
James Oakes
Last aired: February 19, 2013
"Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865"
"The Fifth Assassin"
Brad Meltzer
Last aired: February 19, 2013
"The Fifth Assassin"
"The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement"
Taylor Branch
Last aired: February 16, 2013
"The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement"
Book TV at Georgetown University: Sheryll Cashin, "The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family"
Sheryll Cashin
Last aired: February 11, 2013
Book TV at Georgetown University: Sheryll Cashin, "The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family"
Book TV at University of Virginia: Risa Goluboff, "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights"
Risa Goluboff
Last aired: February 10, 2013
Book TV at University of Virginia: Risa Goluboff, "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights"
"The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South"
Bruce Levine
Last aired: February 10, 2013
"The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South"
"The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler"
David Roll
Last aired: February 4, 2013
"The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler"
"Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C."
Jesse Holland
Last aired: February 3, 2013
"Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C."
"A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico"
Amy Greenberg
Last aired: February 3, 2013
"A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico"
Book TV at University of Virginia: Maurie McInnis, "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade"
Maurie McInnis
Last aired: January 28, 2013
Book TV at University of Virginia: Maurie McInnis, "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade"
"An American Diplomat in Franco Spain"
Michael Aaron Rockland
Last aired: January 27, 2013
"An American Diplomat in Franco Spain"
"Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789-1900"
Robert Watson
Last aired: January 27, 2013
"Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789-1900"
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Mary Frances Berry, "And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America"
Mary Frances Berry
Last aired: January 27, 2013
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Mary Frances Berry, "And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America"
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Steven Hahn, "The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom"
Steven Hahn
Last aired: January 26, 2013
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Steven Hahn, "The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom"
"Judgment Days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America"
Nick Kotz
Last aired: January 22, 2013
"Judgment Days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America"
"James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story"
Henry Gallagher
Last aired: January 21, 2013
"James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story"
"Democracy's Big Day: The Inauguration of Our President, 1789-2013"
Jim Bendat
Last aired: January 21, 2013
"Democracy's Big Day: The Inauguration of Our President, 1789-2013"
"Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News"
Todd Andrlik
Last aired: January 21, 2013
"Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News"
Newt Gingrich, "Victory at Yorktown"
Newt Gingrich
Last aired: January 13, 2013
Newt Gingrich, "Victory at Yorktown"
"Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco"
Robert Graysmith
Last aired: January 13, 2013
"Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco"
"The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
Marcus Rediker
Last aired: January 13, 2013
"The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand
Last aired: January 6, 2013
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
"Snow Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835"
Jefferson Morley
Last aired: December 31, 2012
"Snow Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835"
"My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78"
Robert Sullivan
Last aired: December 31, 2012
"My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78"
"Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II"
Eric Muller
Last aired: December 25, 2012
"Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II"
"Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love"
David Talbot
Last aired: December 24, 2012
"Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love"
"American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked A Revolution"
Harlow Unger
Last aired: December 16, 2012
"American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked A Revolution"
"Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazis"
Rachel Cox
Last aired: December 9, 2012
"Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazis"
"Health Care For Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930"
Beatrix Hoffman
Last aired: December 8, 2012
"Health Care For Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930"
"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power"
Seth Rosenfeld
Last aired: November 26, 2012
"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power"
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Richard Ruth, "In Buddha's Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War"
Richard Ruth
Last aired: November 26, 2012
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Richard Ruth, "In Buddha's Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War"
"A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown"
Julia Scheeres
Last aired: November 25, 2012
"A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown"
"1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism"
Nicole Eustace
Last aired: November 24, 2012
"1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism"
"We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861"
William Cooper
Last aired: November 23, 2012
"We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861"
"Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire "
Gerard Koeppel
Last aired: October 28, 2012
"Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire "
"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: October 21, 2012
"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"
"Justice For All: Earl Warren And The Nation He Made"
Jim Newton
Last aired: October 7, 2012
"Justice For All: Earl Warren And The Nation He Made"
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - Mark Huddle, "Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist"
Mark Huddle
Last aired: September 16, 2012
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - Mark Huddle, "Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist"
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - Mary Stuckey, "Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity"
Mary Stuckey
Last aired: September 16, 2012
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - Mary Stuckey, "Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity"
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - John Bodnar, "The 'Good War' in American Memory"
John Bodnar
Last aired: September 9, 2012
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - John Bodnar, "The 'Good War' in American Memory"
"Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and The Men Who Helped Win World War II"
Barrett Tillman
Last aired: September 8, 2012
"Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and The Men Who Helped Win World War II"
"Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America"
Kevin Bleyer
Last aired: September 8, 2012
"Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America"
Book TV at Georgetown University: Chandra Manning, “What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War”
Chandra Manning
Last aired: September 7, 2012
Book TV at Georgetown University: Chandra Manning, “What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War”
"Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War"
Guy Gugliotta
Last aired: September 7, 2012
"Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War"
"When General Grant Expelled the Jews"
Jonathan Sarna
Last aired: September 7, 2012
"When General Grant Expelled the Jews"
Book TV at Columbia University: Richard John, "Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications"
Richard John
Last aired: September 7, 2012
Book TV at Columbia University: Richard John, "Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications"
"Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic"
Joe Jackson
Last aired: September 6, 2012
"Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic"
"The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con"
Amy Reading
Last aired: September 5, 2012
"The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con"
"Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism"
Christopher Daly
Last aired: September 5, 2012
"Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism"
"Assignment To Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle"
Timothy Gay
Last aired: September 5, 2012
"Assignment To Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle"
Book TV at University of Virginia: J.C.A. Stagg, "The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent"
J.C.A. Stagg
Last aired: September 5, 2012
Book TV at University of Virginia: J.C.A. Stagg, "The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent"
"A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons"
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Last aired: September 4, 2012
"A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons"
"Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest To Clean Up Sin-Loving New York"
Richard Zacks
Last aired: September 4, 2012
"Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest To Clean Up Sin-Loving New York"
"The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr"
H.W. Brands
Last aired: September 4, 2012
"The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr"
"New York At War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham"
Steven Jaffe
Last aired: September 4, 2012
"New York At War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham"
"Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment"
Charlie Schroeder
Last aired: September 4, 2012
"Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment"
"Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America"
Stephen Case; Mark Jacob
Last aired: September 2, 2012
"Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America"
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - James Tertius de Kay, "Roosevelt's Navy: The Education of a Warrior President, 1882-1920"
James Tertius de Kay
Last aired: September 1, 2012
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - James Tertius de Kay, "Roosevelt's Navy: The Education of a Warrior President, 1882-1920"
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival - Joseph Persico, "Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II"
Joseph Persico
Last aired: September 1, 2012
Book TV at Georgetown University: Maurice Jackson, "Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism"
Maurice Jackson
Last aired: August 31, 2012
Book TV at Georgetown University: Maurice Jackson, "Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism"
"Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II"
Arthur Herman
Last aired: August 29, 2012
"Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II"
"If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy - from the Revolution to the War of 1812"
George Daughan
Last aired: August 19, 2012
"If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy - from the Revolution to the War of 1812"
"Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller"
Gregg Herken
Last aired: August 5, 2012
"Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller"
My Father's Bonus March
Adam Langer
Last aired: July 29, 2012
My Father's Bonus March
Book TV at Columbia University: Evan Haefeli, "New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty"
Evan Haefeli
Last aired: July 16, 2012
Book TV at Columbia University: Evan Haefeli, "New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty"
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
Mark Lee Gardner
Last aired: July 15, 2012
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
"Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America"
Matthew Briones
Last aired: July 14, 2012
"Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America"
"Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed - and Why It Still Matters"
Andrew Gumbel
Last aired: July 8, 2012
"Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed - and Why It Still Matters"
"Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg"
James McPherson
Last aired: July 1, 2012
"Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg"
Book TV at Columbia University: Jonathan Cole, "The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected"
Jonathan Cole
Last aired: June 25, 2012
Book TV at Columbia University: Jonathan Cole, "The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected"
Debate on "9/11, False Flags, and Black Ops" with Jonathan Kay and Webster Tarpley
Jonathan Kay; Webster Tarpley
Last aired: June 24, 2012
Debate on "9/11, False Flags, and Black Ops" with Jonathan Kay and Webster Tarpley
"The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco"
Marilyn Chase
Last aired: May 27, 2012
"The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco"
Encore Booknotes: Nadine Cohodas, "Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change"
Nadine Cohodas
Last aired: May 26, 2012
Encore Booknotes: Nadine Cohodas, "Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change"

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. 58 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
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. 21 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. 55 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 53 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. 8 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. 7 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Looking at Iran: The Rise & Fall of Iran in Public Opinion"
James Zogby
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 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. 55 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle
10pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
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. 53 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. 8 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. 53 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. 21 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. 7 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. 21 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
9pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
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. 47 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"Looking at Iran: The Rise & Fall of Iran in Public Opinion"
James Zogby

Monday, May 27th
12am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
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. 21 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. 58 min.
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. 7 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.