TWOBT

(This Weekend on Book TV)


Schedule for Book TV on C-SPAN 2 this weekend (27-8 December):


Time
(ET) Duration
(approx.) Program
Author(s)
12:00 AM 56 min 2008 Miami Book Fair: Dave Barry and Frank McCourt
Authors: Dave Barry; Frank McCourt
1:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min 2008 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Moments that Shaped America Panel
Authors: Douglas Brinkley; Michael Eric Dyson; Edward Humes; Elizabeth Taylor; Bruce Watson
2:00 AM 47 min Julia Keller "Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel"
Author: Julia Keller
2:45 AM 14 min Interview with Sara Nelson, Publisher Weekly
Author: Sara Nelson
3:00 AM 1 hr After Words: Amity Shlaes, author of "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" interviewed by Nick Gillespie
4:00 AM 59 min After Words: Niall Ferguson author of "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World" interviewed by Adrian Wooldridge, Washington bureau chief for The Economist
5:00 AM 1 hr, 26 min 2008 National Book Awards Ceremony
Author: 2008 National Book Awards
6:30 AM 27 min 2008 National Book Festival: Immaculee Ilibagiza, "Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide"
Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza
7:00 AM 1 hr, 1 min 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
8:00 AM 48 min You Are Not Forgotten: A Family's Quest for Truth and the Founding of The National League of Families
Author: Carol Jose
8:45 AM 41 min Politics
The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive
Author: Marvelyn Brown
9:30 AM 1 hr, 19 min 2008 Miami Book Fair - Cornel West and Tavis Smiley
Authors: Tavis Smiley; Cornel West
11:00 AM 1 hr, 1 min Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
Author: Andrew Gumbel
12:00 PM 1 hr, 57 min History
Michael Burlingame, "Abraham Lincoln: A Life"
Author: Michael Burlingame
2:00 PM 1 hr A Short History of the United States
Author: Robert Remini
3:15 PM 1 hr, 21 min A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Author: Stephen Kinzer
5:00 PM 59 min History
Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America
Author: David Hackett Fischer
6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
A History of the American People
Author: Paul Johnson
7:00 PM 55 min Strength and Compassion
Author: Eric Greitens
8:00 PM 52 min 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.
9:00 PM 51 min Born Liberal, Raised Right
Author: Reb Bradley
10:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Philip Dray, "Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen" interviewed by historian Peniel Joseph
11:15 PM 1 hr, 58 min The National Security Council: A Legal History of the President's Most Powerful Advisers
Author: Cody Brown

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Time
(ET) Duration
(approx.) Program
Author(s)
1:15 AM 39 min History
Titanic's Last Secrets
Authors: John Chatterton; Richie Kohler; Brad Matsen
2:00 AM 48 min You Are Not Forgotten: A Family's Quest for Truth and the Founding of The National League of Families
Author: Carol Jose
3:00 AM 1 hr, 33 min The Millennials: The Dumbest Generation or the Next Great Generation?
Authors: Mark Bauerlein; Neil Howe
4:30 AM 1 hr, 28 min History
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Author: Max Hastings
6:00 AM 41 min Politics
The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive
Author: Marvelyn Brown
7:00 AM 51 min Born Liberal, Raised Right
Author: Reb Bradley
8:00 AM 1 hr, 21 min A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Author: Stephen Kinzer
9:30 AM 1 hr, 27 min Public Lives
Letter To My Daughter
Author: Maya Angelou
11:00 AM 46 min Public Lives
Illustrator & Political Cartoonist David Levine
Author: David Levine
12:00 PM 1 hr After Words: David Reynolds, "Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson" interviewed by Robert Remini, author and historian for the U.S. House of Representatives
1:00 PM 1 hr, 1 min Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
Author: Andrew Gumbel
2:00 PM 48 min You Are Not Forgotten: A Family's Quest for Truth and the Founding of The National League of Families
Author: Carol Jose
3:00 PM 57 min 2008 Miami Book Fair: Salman Rushdie, "The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel"
Authors: Nathan Englander; Salman Rushdie
4:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min Politics
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence"
Author: Robert Bryce
5:30 PM 27 min History
2008 Miami Book Fair: Calls with John Stauffer, "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln"
Author: John Stauffer
6:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Philip Dray, "Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen" interviewed by historian Peniel Joseph
7:00 PM 28 min History
2008 National Book Festival: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, "Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers"
Author: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
7:30 PM 1 hr, 24 min Public Lives
Harry S. Truman
Author: Robert Dallek
9:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Philip Dray, "Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen" interviewed by historian Peniel Joseph
10:00 PM 1 hr, 33 min The Millennials: The Dumbest Generation or the Next Great Generation?
Authors: Mark Bauerlein; Neil Howe


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