Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video)		AuthorBookSubject matter
January 5, 2003Hugh PriceAchievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education PossibleEducation in the United States
January 12, 2003Andrew RobertsNapoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought ItNapoleon Bonaparte; The Duke of Wellington; The Battle of Waterloo
January 19, 2003Warren ZimmermannFirst Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World PowerJohn Hay; Henry Cabot Lodge; Alfred Thayer Mahan; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root
January 26, 2003Robert CoramBoyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of WarJohn Boyd
February 2, 2003Stephen SchwartzThe Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to TerrorWahhabism
February 9, 2003Amy ChuaWorld on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global InstabilityGlobalization; Democratization; Middleman minorities
February 16, 2003Robert KaganOf Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World OrderForeign policy of the United States; Politics of Europe
February 23, 2003Joy HakimFreedom: A History of USA History of US
March 2, 2003John McWhorterAuthentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent MajorityAfrican Americans
March 9, 2003Dana PriestThe Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s MilitaryUnited States Armed Forces
March 16, 2003Michael HowardThe First World WarWorld War I
March 23, 2003Bernard BailynTo Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American FoundersFounding Fathers of the United States
March 30, 2003Mona CharenUseful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America FirstAmerican Left; The Cold War
April 6, 2003Roy Morris, Jr.Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876Rutherford B. Hayes; Samuel Tilden; 1876 United States presidential election
April 13, 2003Philip TaubmanSecret Empire: Eisenhower, The CIA, and The Hidden Story of America’s Space EspionagePresidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Central Intelligence Agency; Spy satellites
April 20, 2003 and April 27, 2003William TaubmanKhrushchev: The Man and His EraNikita Khrushchev
May 4, 2003Dorothy RabinowitzNo Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our TimesDay care sex abuse hysteria; Fells Acres day care sexual abuse trial; Gerald Amirault; McMartin preschool trial
May 11, 2003Monica LangleyTearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World And Then Nearly Lost it AllSandy Weill
May 18, 2003Paul TherouxDark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape TownTravel literature; Africa
May 25, 2003Anne ApplebaumGulag: A HistoryGulag
June 1, 2003Raymond StrotherFalling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political ConsultingMemoir/Autobiography; Political consulting
June 8, 2003Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksMemoir/Autobiography; Women's rights in Iran; Politics of Iran; Higher education in Iran
June 15, 2003Eric SchlosserReefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black MarketUnderground economy; Cannabis in the United States; Pornography in the United States; Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States
June 22, 2003Paul BermanTerror and LiberalismWar on Terror; Islamic terrorism
June 29, 2003Vartan GregorianThe Road to Home: My Life and TimesMemoir/Autobiography; Iranian Armenians; The Carnegie Corporation
July 6, 2003Jon KuklaA Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of AmericaThe Louisiana Purchase
July 13, 2003Willard ScottThe Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain AgeMemoir/Autobiography; Aging
July 20, 2003Connie BruckWhen Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and InfluenceLew Wasserman
July 27, 2003Kenneth AckermanDark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. GarfieldJames Garfield
August 3, 2003Dorothy HeightOpen Wide the Freedom Gates: A MemoirMemoir/Autobiography; National Council of Negro Women
August 10, 2003Gretchen RubinForty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long LifeWinston Churchill
August 17, 2003David LipskyAbsolutely American: Four Years at West PointThe United States Military Academy
August 24, 2003Adam BellowIn Praise of Nepotism: A Natural HistoryNepotism
August 31, 2003Robert DarntonGeorge Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth CenturyThe Enlightenment; The French Revolution; the 18th century
September 7, 2003Michael ParentiThe Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient RomeJulius Caesar; Assassination of Julius Caesar; Ancient Rome
September 14, 2003Erik LarsonThe Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed AmericaThe World's Columbian Exposition; Daniel Burnham; H.H. Holmes
September 21, 2003Eric RauchwayMurdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s AmericaLeon Czolgosz; Assassination of William McKinley; Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
September 28, 2003Victor Davis HansonMexifornia: A State of BecomingMexifornia
October 5, 2003David Von DrehleTriangle: The Fire That Changed AmericaTriangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
October 12, 2003Jessica SternTerror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants KillReligious terrorism; Christian terrorism; Islamic terrorism; Jewish terrorism
October 19, 2003Lance MorrowEvil: An InvestigationEvil
October 26, 2003Jill JonnesEmpires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the WorldThomas Edison; Nicola Tesla; George Westinghouse; History of electromagnetism
November 2, 2003James BovardTerrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of EvilCriticism of the War on Terror; Civil liberties in the United States
November 9, 2003Rich LowryLegacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton YearsPresidency of Bill Clinton
November 16, 2003Michael MooreDude, Where's My Country?Criticism of the Iraq War; Enron scandal
November 23, 2003Tom CoburnBreach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into InsidersUnited States House of Representatives; The Republican Revolution
November 30, 2003Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD)Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America107th United States Congress
December 7, 2003Richard PipesVixi: Memoirs of a Non-BelongerMemoir/Autobiography; Harvard University; Soviet Union–United States relations
December 14, 2003Gail CollinsAmerica's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and HeroinesHistory of women in the United States
December 21, 2003Matthew PinskerLincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' HomePresident Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home
December 28, 2003Carl CannonThe Pursuit of Happiness in Times of WarLife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; Home front

References

  1. ↑ "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. August 19, 2004.
  2. ↑ Ellen Emry Heltzel (August 17, 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian.
  3. ↑ Frank J. Prial (December 4, 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
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