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Saturday, January 10, 2009 - Monday, January 12, 2009
Saturday at 10:00 PM, Sunday at 6:00 PM, Sunday at 9:00 PM, Monday at 12:00 AM, and Monday at 3:00 AM
After Words: Chris Horner, "Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed," interviewed by Jed Babbin, Editor, Human Events
Politics
Saturday at 8:00 AM, and Monday at 2:00 AM
The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
Author:
Gene Healy
Saturday at 9:00 AM
In Depth: Bill Gertz
Saturday at 12:00 PM, Sunday at 12:00 AM, and Sunday at 7:00 PM
War + Peace: A Photographer's Journey
Author:
Sebastian Junger Reza
Saturday at 2:00 PM, and Sunday at 5:00 AM
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"
Author:
Jon Meacham
Saturday at 3:00 PM, and Sunday at 6:00 AM
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "Herbert Hoover"
Author:
William Leuchtenburg
Saturday at 4:00 PM
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "The Hemingses of Monticello"
Author:
Annette Gordon-Reed
Public Lives
Saturday at 5:00 PM, and Monday at 5:15 AM
Willis Carto and the American Far Right
Author:
George Michael
Saturday at 7:00 PM, and Sunday at 3:00 PM
Strength and Compassion
Author:
Eric Greitens
Public Lives
Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 2:00 AM, and Sunday at 4:00 PM
Renegade for Peace & Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks for Me
Author:
Barbara Lee
History
Saturday at 9:15 PM
Titanic's Last Secrets
Authors:
John Chatterton; Richie Kohler; Brad Matsen
Saturday at 11:00 PM, Sunday at 1:00 PM, and Monday at 6:00 AM
Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East
Author:
Edward Djerejian
Sunday at 3:30 AM, and Sunday at 9:30 AM
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Author:
Fred Pearce
Sunday at 7:00 AM
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Sunday at 8:15 AM
Palestine Inside and Out: An Everyday Occupation
Author:
Saree Makdisi
Politics
Sunday at 11:00 AM, and Monday at 7:00 AM
With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America
Author:
Douglas Hicks
Sunday at 12:00 PM
After Words: Jay Parini, "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America," interviewed by Sam Tanenhaus, Editor, New York Times Book Review
Politics
Sunday at 5:15 PM
The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
Author:
Alvin Felzenberg
Politics
Sunday at 10:00 PM, and Monday at 4:00 AM
High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Author:
Peter Gosselin
Politics
Sunday at 11:15 PM
The Faith of Barack Obama
Author:
Stephen Mansfield
Monday at 1:00 AM
2008 Miami Book Fair: Carl Hiaasen, "The Downhill Lie: A Hackers Return to a Ruinous Sport" and Roy Blount Jr., "Alphabet Juice"
Authors:
Roy Blount Jr.; Carl Hiassen
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After Words: Jay Parini, "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America," interviewed by Sam Tanenhaus, Editor, New York Times Book Review
In Depth: Bill Gertz
History
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Author:
Tony Horwitz
Politics
The Price of Racial Reconciliation
Author:
Ronald Walters
History
Ben Bernanke's "Essays on the Great Depression"
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com in conversation with Chris Anderson editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine
Authors:
Chris Anderson; Jeff Bezos
History
Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic
Author:
Stuart Leibiger
Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee
Author:
Timothy Egan
Encore Booknotes
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten 1925-1964
Author:
Emily Bernard
History
2008 National Book Festival: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, "Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers"
Author:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
History
2008 National Book Festival: Rick Atkinson, "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944"
Author:
Rick Atkinson
A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet
Author:
Andrew Chaikin
A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America - One State Quarter at a Time
Author:
Jim Noles
Politics
2008 Miami Book Fair: Naomi Klein, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" and Jeremy Scahill, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army"
Authors:
Naomi Klein; Jeremy Scahill
Public Lives
2008 Eagle Forum: Benjamin Wiker "10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help"
Author:
Benjamin Wiker
History
Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Author:
Elizabeth Varon
The Irish Americans: A History
Author:
Jay Dolan
Encore Booknotes
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Author:
Margaret MacMillan
After Words: Michael Gerson, "Heroic Conservatism" interviewed by Richard Viguerie
After Words: Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft authors of "America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy" interviewed by David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post
After Words: Sen. Harry Reid, author of "The Good Fight: Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington" interviewed by Senator Tom Daschle
After Words: Sir David Frost author of "Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews" interviewed by Timothy Naftali, Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
History
Titanic's Last Secrets
Authors:
John Chatterton; Richie Kohler; Brad Matsen
2008 Eagle Forum: Jerome Corsi "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada"
Author:
Jerome Corsi
Public Lives
The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution
Author:
Jonah Raskin
Public Lives
Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy
Author:
Patricia Gates Lynch
The National Security Council: A Legal History of the President's Most Powerful Advisers
Author:
Cody Brown
The Millennials: The Dumbest Generation or the Next Great Generation?
Authors:
Mark Bauerlein; Neil Howe
The Plan: How to Rescue Society When the Oil Stops - or the Day Before
Author:
Edwin Black
Public Lives
Memorial for Studs Terkel
Author:
Mutiple Speakers
History
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
Author:
Robert Mrazek
History
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
Author:
Andrei Cherny
2008 Harlem Book Fair: 40 Years of African American Publishing
Authors:
Kassahun Checole; W. Paul Coates; Cheryl Willis Hudson; Wade Hudson; Max Rodriguez; Tony Rose
History
We the People: The Story of Our Constitution
Author:
Lynne Cheney
Encore Booknotes
Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
Author:
Carol Reardon
History
New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy has Damaged America
Author:
Burton Folsom
Politics
2008 Miami Book Fair: Calls with Hooman Majd, "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran"
Author:
Hooman Majd
God Willing: My Wild Ride with the New Iraqi Army
Author:
Capt. Eric Navarro
History
Understanding America
Authors:
Peter Schuck; James Wilson
Hollywood's White House & The West Wing
Author:
Peter Rollins, ed.
Mission Accomplished!: Or How We Won the War In Iraq
Author:
Christopher Cerf
After Words: Philip Dray, "Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen" interviewed by historian Peniel Joseph
Politics
Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Author:
Riki Ott
Public Lives
Michelle
Author:
Liza Mundy
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey
Author:
William Least Heat-Moon
Public Lives
Illustrator & Political Cartoonist David Levine
Author:
David Levine
History
2008 Harlem Book Fair: Mississippi Freedom Riders
Authors:
Eric Etheridge; Helen Singleton; Robert Singleton; Lewis Zuchman
Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement (1:26:23)
Author:
Zaki Chehab
Strength and Compassion
Author:
Eric Greitens
History
Michael Burlingame, "Abraham Lincoln: A Life"
Author:
Michael Burlingame
History
1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
Author:
Benny Morris
2007 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair: Dan Walker
Author:
Dan Walker
Politics
2008 BookExpo America: Interview with Rev. Dr. Cindi Love author of "Would Jesus Discriminate?: The 21st Century Question"
Author:
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love
Public Lives
2008 Eagle Forum: Benjamin Wiker "10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help"
Author:
Benjamin Wiker
Politics
2008 Harlem Book Fair: State of Civil Rights
Authors:
Keli Goff; Edgar Ridley; Anthony Samad
2008 Miami Book Fair - Cornel West and Tavis Smiley
Authors:
Tavis Smiley; Cornel West
2008 Miami Book Fair: Salman Rushdie, "The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel"
Authors:
Nathan Englander; Salman Rushdie
2008 National Book Awards Ceremony
Author:
2008 National Book Awards
History
2008 National Book Festival: Michael Dobbs, "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War"
Author:
Michael Dobbs
History
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Author:
Stephen Mihm
A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet
Author:
Andrew Chaikin
A Short History of the United States
Author:
Robert Remini
A Tour of Pat Buchanan's Library
Author:
Patrick Buchanan
After Words: Bill Gertz, "The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War" interviewed by Frank Gaffney
After Words: Rahm Emanuel, co-author of "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," interviewed by Michael Tackett
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof: Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences, With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Author:
Roy Blount Jr.
History
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Author:
Howard Blum
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Authors:
Bryan Burrough; John Helyar
Public Lives
Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein
Author:
Michael Newton
Politics
High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Author:
Peter Gosselin
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
Author:
Michael Gazzaniga
Public Lives
Illustrator & Political Cartoonist David Levine
Author:
David Levine
In Defense of the Bush Doctrine
Author:
Robert Kaufman
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Author:
Thomas DeWolf
History
Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Birthplace of the American Ideal
Authors:
Kenneth Garrett; David McCullough
Public Lives
Letter To My Daughter
Author:
Maya Angelou
History
Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861
Author:
Harold Holzer
Public Lives
Michelle
Author:
Liza Mundy
History
Never Been A Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked The Civil Rights Movement
Author:
Harper Barnes
Politics
Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Author:
Riki Ott
Politics
Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
Author:
John Talbott
History
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
Author:
Charles Cobb
History
Panel Discussion on the American Presidency with Presidential biographers and historians Robert Caro, Ted Sorensen, and Bob Clark
Authors:
James Atlas; Robert Caro; Bob Clark; Ted Sorensen
Pat Buchanan on the Research for his book, "Churchill, Hitler, and the Uneccesary War"
Author:
Patrick Buchanan
Public Lives
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
Authors:
Lee Allen Peterson; Roger Tory Peterson
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Author:
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)
Reading Khamenei
Author:
Karim Sadjadpour
History
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Shorter version)
Author:
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
History
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
Authors:
Bruce Schulman; Julian Zelizer