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This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights
LIVE In Depth: John Ferling
Next air time: Sunday, July 5th, at 12pm (ET)
E-mail Book TV Send questions for the author to Book TV
After Words: Wangari Maathai, author of "The Challenge for Africa" interviewed by Nicole Lee
Next air time: Saturday, July 4th, at 10pm (ET)
I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles
Lily Burana
Next air time: Saturday, July 4th, at 7pm (ET)
Visions of America: Photographing Democracy
Joseph Sohm
Next air time: Saturday, July 4th, at 9am (ET)
Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending
P.J. O'Rourke
Next air time: Sunday, July 5th, at 6:45pm (ET)

Also Airing...

Saturday, July 4th
8am (ET)
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation
Ray Raphael
9am (ET)
Visions of America: Photographing Democracy
Joseph Sohm
10am (ET)
Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
John Ferling
11:30am (ET)
Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War
Edwin Burrows
12:30pm (ET)
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Nancy Rubin Stuart
1:45pm (ET)
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army
Paul Lockhart
3pm (ET)
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Simon Schama
4:15pm (ET)
1776
David McCullough
5pm (ET)
The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence
6pm (ET)
Encore Booknotes: Joyce Appleby, "Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans"
Joyce Appleby
7pm (ET)
I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles
Lily Burana
8pm (ET)
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation
Ray Raphael
9pm (ET)
Visions of America: Photographing Democracy
Joseph Sohm
10pm (ET)
After Words: Wangari Maathai, author of "The Challenge for Africa" interviewed by Nicole Lee
11pm (ET)
Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
John Ferling

Sunday, July 5th
12:30am (ET)
Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War
Edwin Burrows
1:30am (ET)
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Nancy Rubin Stuart
2:45am (ET)
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army
Paul Lockhart
4am (ET)
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Simon Schama
5:15am (ET)
1776
David McCullough
6am (ET)
The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence
7am (ET)
Visions of America: Photographing Democracy
Joseph Sohm
8am (ET)
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
Thomas Ricks
9am (ET)
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
Peter Rodman
11am (ET)
After Words: Nicholas Schmidle, author of "To Live or to Perish Forever" interviewed by Ralph Peters
LIVE 12pm (ET)
In Depth: John Ferling
E-mail Book TV Send questions for the author to Book TV
3pm (ET)
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Julia Angwin
4pm (ET)
Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species
Laurel Neme
5pm (ET)
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Neil deGrasse Tyson
6:45pm (ET)
Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending
P.J. O'Rourke
8pm (ET)
Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America
David Taylor
9pm (ET)
After Words: Wangari Maathai, author of "The Challenge for Africa" interviewed by Nicole Lee
10pm (ET)
Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them
Steve Milloy
11pm (ET)
After Words: Wangari Maathai, author of "The Challenge for Africa" interviewed by Nicole Lee

Monday, July 6th
12am (ET)
In Depth: John Ferling
3am (ET)
After Words: Wangari Maathai, author of "The Challenge for Africa" interviewed by Nicole Lee
4am (ET)
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
Peter Rodman
5:45am (ET)
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
Matt Mason
7am (ET)
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
Michael Davis

Upcoming Programs

IN DEPTH with Author and Historian John Ferling
Sunday, July 5, LIVE from George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate from Noon to 3pm ET 

Author and historian John Ferling will be our guest for In Depth on Sunday, July 5  (LIVE Noon to 3pm (ET). Mr. Ferling is the author of nine books, including A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic that was the recipient of the 2004 Fraunces Tavern Book Award for best book on the American Revolution and his most recently published title The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. John Ferling is professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia where he  taught for thirty-three years.

THREE DAY WEEKEND ON BOOK TV

The John Ferling In Depth will be part of a 3 day weekend for Book TV over the July 4 holiday.  Beginning at 8AM ET on Friday, July 3, watch three full days of Book TV programming.  The full schedule is available in the Weekend section above.

UPCOMING IN DEPTHSAugust--Juan Willams

September--Jonathan Kozol

October--Hugh Hewitt

November--Dr. Temple Grandin