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)		 Author Book Subject matter
January 5, 2003 Hugh Price Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible Education in the United States
January 12, 2003 Andrew Roberts Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It Napoleon Bonaparte; The Duke of Wellington; The Battle of Waterloo
January 19, 2003 Warren Zimmermann First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power John Hay; Henry Cabot Lodge; Alfred Thayer Mahan; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root
January 26, 2003 Robert Coram Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War John Boyd
February 2, 2003 Stephen Schwartz The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror Wahhabism
February 9, 2003 Amy Chua World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability Globalization; Democratization; Middleman minorities
February 16, 2003 Robert Kagan Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order Foreign policy of the United States; Politics of Europe
February 23, 2003 Joy Hakim Freedom: A History of US A History of US
March 2, 2003 John McWhorter Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority African Americans
March 9, 2003 Dana Priest The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military United States Armed Forces
March 16, 2003 Michael Howard The First World War World War I
March 23, 2003 Bernard Bailyn To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders Founding Fathers of the United States
March 30, 2003 Mona Charen Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First American Left; The Cold War
April 6, 2003 Roy Morris, Jr. Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes; Samuel Tilden; 1876 United States presidential election
April 13, 2003 Philip Taubman Secret Empire: Eisenhower, The CIA, and The Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Central Intelligence Agency; Spy satellites
April 20, 2003 and April 27, 2003 William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Nikita Khrushchev
May 4, 2003 Dorothy Rabinowitz No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times Day care sex abuse hysteria; Fells Acres day care sexual abuse trial; Gerald Amirault; McMartin preschool trial
May 11, 2003 Monica Langley Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World And Then Nearly Lost it All Sandy Weill
May 18, 2003 Paul Theroux Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town Travel literature; Africa
May 25, 2003 Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History Gulag
June 1, 2003 Raymond Strother Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting Memoir/Autobiography; Political consulting
June 8, 2003 Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Memoir/Autobiography; Women's rights in Iran; Politics of Iran; Higher education in Iran
June 15, 2003 Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Underground economy; Cannabis in the United States; Pornography in the United States; Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States
June 22, 2003 Paul Berman Terror and Liberalism War on Terror; Islamic terrorism
June 29, 2003 Vartan Gregorian The Road to Home: My Life and Times Memoir/Autobiography; Iranian Armenians; The Carnegie Corporation
July 6, 2003 Jon Kukla A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America The Louisiana Purchase
July 13, 2003 Willard Scott The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age Memoir/Autobiography; Aging
July 20, 2003 Connie Bruck When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence Lew Wasserman
July 27, 2003 Kenneth Ackerman Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield James Garfield
August 3, 2003 Dorothy Height Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir Memoir/Autobiography; National Council of Negro Women
August 10, 2003 Gretchen Rubin Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life Winston Churchill
August 17, 2003 David Lipsky Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point The United States Military Academy
August 24, 2003 Adam Bellow In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History Nepotism
August 31, 2003 Robert Darnton George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century The Enlightenment; The French Revolution; the 18th century
September 7, 2003 Michael Parenti The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome Julius Caesar; Assassination of Julius Caesar; Ancient Rome
September 14, 2003 Erik Larson The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America The World's Columbian Exposition; Daniel Burnham; H.H. Holmes
September 21, 2003 Eric Rauchway Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America Leon Czolgosz; Assassination of William McKinley; Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
September 28, 2003 Victor Davis Hanson Mexifornia: A State of Becoming Mexifornia
October 5, 2003 David Von Drehle Triangle: The Fire That Changed America Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
October 12, 2003 Jessica Stern Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill Religious terrorism; Christian terrorism; Islamic terrorism; Jewish terrorism
October 19, 2003 Lance Morrow Evil: An Investigation Evil
October 26, 2003 Jill Jonnes Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World Thomas Edison; Nicola Tesla; George Westinghouse; History of electromagnetism
November 2, 2003 James Bovard Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil Criticism of the War on Terror; Civil liberties in the United States
November 9, 2003 Rich Lowry Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years Presidency of Bill Clinton
November 16, 2003 Michael Moore Dude, Where's My Country? Criticism of the Iraq War; Enron scandal
November 23, 2003 Tom Coburn Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders United States House of Representatives; The Republican Revolution
November 30, 2003 Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America 107th United States Congress
December 7, 2003 Richard Pipes Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger Memoir/Autobiography; Harvard University; Soviet Union–United States relations
December 14, 2003 Gail Collins America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines History of women in the United States
December 21, 2003 Matthew Pinsker Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home
December 28, 2003 Carl Cannon The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War Life, 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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