Book Parties and Festivals

2012 Tucson Festival of Books

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About the Program

BookTV is LIVE from the 2012 Tucson Festival of Books on the campus of the University of Arizona on Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 11. 

Saturday's Schedule

1:30 PM ET

Jeffrey Rosen, The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America

3:00 PM ET

Forensic Science Panel

Douglas Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

Holly Tucker, Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientfic Revolution

Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

4:30 PM ET

Politics Panel

Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Tom Zoellner, A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America

Chris Mooney, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Don't Believe in Science

6:00 PM ET

Mexico's Drug Wars Panel

Peter Laufer, Calexico: True Lives of the Borderlands

Sylvia Longmire, Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars

Philip Caputo, Crossers: A Novel

 

 

 

 

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2012 Tucson Festival of Books

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Past Airings

  • Sunday, March 11th at 12am (ET)
  • Saturday, March 10th at 1:30pm (ET)
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