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Three Days Before the Shooting...
Adam Bradley; John Callahan
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th at 4:45pm (ET)

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Juan Williams In Depth Vignette (Short Version) Juan Williams Last aired: March 15, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: R. Dwayne Betts R. Dwayne Betts Last aired: March 14, 2010
2010 CPAC: Mark Halperin on "Game Change" Mark Halperin Last aired: March 14, 2010	2010 CPAC: Jane Hampton Cook on "Battlefields & Blessings" Jane Hampton Cook Last aired: March 14, 2010
2010 CPAC: Paul Kengor Paul Kengor Last aired: March 14, 2010	2010 CPAC: Jerry Doyle on "Have You Seen My Country Lately?" Jerry Doyle Last aired: March 14, 2010
2010 CPAC: Bob Levy on "The Dirty Dozen" Robert Levy Last aired: March 13, 2010	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Program Portion) Peter Sis Last aired: March 7, 2010
Juan Williams In Depth Vignette Juan Williams Last aired: March 7, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: Jim Lehrer Jim Lehrer Last aired: March 6, 2010
In Depth Vignette: Shelby Foote Shelby Foote Last aired: February 28, 2010	2010 CPAC: Matt Spalding on "We Still Hold These Truths" Matthew Spalding Last aired: February 28, 2010
2009 NPC Book Fair: Joan Biskupic Joan Biskupic Last aired: February 22, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: What Are You Reading? Jim Lehrer Jim Lehrer Last aired: February 22, 2010
James McPherson on His Writing Habits (Program Portion) James McPherson Last aired: February 21, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: Bryan Garner Bryan Garner Last aired: February 15, 2010
2009 NPC Book Fair: The Seed School of Maryland Carol Beck Last aired: February 14, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: T.R. Reid T.R. Reid Last aired: February 14, 2010
2009 NPC Book Fair: Farai Chideya Farai Chideya Last aired: February 14, 2010	2009 National Book Awards - What Are You Reading? Robert Caro Robert Caro Last aired: February 8, 2010
2009 NPC Book Fair: Brian Ross Brian Ross Last aired: February 7, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: Erin Arvedlund Erin Arvedlund Last aired: February 1, 2010
Alexander Cockburn In Depth Vignette (short version) Alexander Cockburn Last aired: January 31, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: Patricia Sullivan Patricia Sullivan Last aired: January 31, 2010
Alexander Cockburn In Depth Vignette Alexander Cockburn Last aired: January 24, 2010	2009 NPC Book Fair: Ann Coulter Ann Coulter Last aired: January 11, 2010
Writer's Life: Eva Brann Eva Brann Last aired: January 3, 2010	2009 National Book Festival - Judy Blume Judy Blume Last aired: December 5, 2009
A Moveable Feast Adam Gopnik; Ernest Hemingway; Sean Hemingway; Diane Johnson Last aired: November 7, 2009	2009 Leon Levy Biography Lecture delivered by Robert Caro Robert Caro Last aired: November 1, 2009
Kevin Phillips In Depth Vignette Kevin Phillips Last aired: October 24, 2009	Authors on Writing, Ralph Peters, Bill Gertz, and Steven Pinker Bill Gertz; Ralph Peters; Steven Pinker Last aired: October 17, 2009
In Depth Vignette: Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol Last aired: October 17, 2009	Panel Discussion on the Future of Feature Writing Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Last aired: September 19, 2009
In Depth Vignette: Stanley Crouch Stanley Crouch Last aired: September 7, 2009	In Depth Vignette: John McWhorter John McWhorter Last aired: September 6, 2009
In Depth Vignette: Michael Eric Dyson Michael Eric Dyson Last aired: September 6, 2009	George Weigel In Depth Vignette George Weigel Last aired: September 6, 2009
In Depth Vignette: Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens Last aired: August 30, 2009	In Depth Vignette: Ralph Peters Ralph Peters Last aired: August 23, 2009
In Depth Vignette: Taylor Branch Taylor Branch Last aired: August 22, 2009	In Depth Vignette: Steven Pinker Steven Pinker Last aired: August 22, 2009
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans Dan Baum Last aired: August 22, 2009	In Depth Vignette: Nell Irvin Painter Nell Irvin Painter Last aired: August 16, 2009
Nicholas Basbanes: Home Library Tour & Writing Habits Nicholas Basbanes Last aired: August 8, 2009	James McPherson on his Writing Habits James McPherson Last aired: April 26, 2009
In Depth Vignette - John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin Last aired: March 30, 2009	In Depth Vignette: John Hope Franklin with Greenhouse Tour John Hope Franklin Last aired: March 29, 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. 56 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. 3 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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IN DEPTH

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, Paul Johnson, and T.R. Reid have been our guests. You can watch those online.

April--John Dean

Book Festivals

Book TV will be covering several book festivals this spring, including LIVE coverage of the Tucson Book Festival March 13-14, and the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville later in March. In April, plans for coverage include the Annapolis Book Festival as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Fair.