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C-SPAN2's Book TV: January 6-8
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In Depth
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET
Join us for a conversation with author P.J. O'Rourke. Mr. O'Rourke has worked for National Lampoon and Rolling Stone, and is currently a fellow at the Cato Institute and a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Republican Party Reptile, Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores, The Enemies List, Eat the Rich, and Give War a Chance. His forthcoming book, On the Wealth of Nations, will be published this month.
You can join this three-hour conversation by e- mailing your question to
booktv@c-span.org or by calling in during the program: East/Central: 202-737-0001 or Mountain/Pacific: 202-737-0002.
After Words
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
George Weller was the first American reporter to enter Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb. His reports from Japan were censored and never published. In 2003, a year after George Weller’s death, his son Anthony Weller found the missing manuscripts and has assembled them into his book, First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and its Prisoners of War. Mr. Weller discusses the book with World War II marine photographic officer, Norman Hatch.
Weekend Highlights
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Michael Blake, Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency
Michael Blake is the author of Dances With Wolves which sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. He tells the story of how the film made his book a bestseller and changed his life. Mr. Blake also discusses his first nonfiction work, Indian Yell, and compares the native insurgency of the 19th century with the current insurgency in Iraq.
(Saturday 8 AM, Monday 5 AM ET)
Padma Desai, Conversations on Russia: Reform from Yeltsin to Putin
In her book, author Padma Desai talks about the two men who have led Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. She discusses the economic and political reforms advanced by Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin and argues that the record for each is mixed. (Saturday 12 PM ET)
Robert Richardson, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Robert Richardson discusses his biography of William James, brother of novelist Henry James. The author explores William James's family life and education, his contributions to the fields of philosophy and psychology, and his ideas about the exercise of free will.
(Saturday 8 PM, Sunday 9 AM ET)
Evan Thomas, Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
In his book, Evan Thomas chronicles the Pacific naval campaign of World War II. He details how two navies prepared to fight each other on Leyte Gulf and profiles American naval officers Admiral William Halsey and Commander Ernest Evans, and Japanese officers Admiral Takeo Kurita and Admiral Matome Ugaki.
(Sunday 10 AM and 10 PM ET)
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BOOK TV Schedule
Note: Program start times are approximate and all times are Eastern.
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Saturday, January 6
8:00 am Michael Blake, Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency
8:35 Jim Powell, Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt
9:00 Andy Stern, A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track
9:50 2006 Great Read--Denise Grady, "Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburg Fever to Avian Flu"
10:00 Robert Spencer, The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
11:00 Harlow Unger, The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
12:00 pm Padma Desai, Conversations on Russia: Reform from Yeltsin to Putin
1:30 Susan Trento & Joseph Trento, Unsafe at Any Altitude: Failed Terrorism Investigations, Scapegoating 9/11, and the Shocking Truth about Aviation Security Today
2:35 2006 NPC: Elliott Lewis "Fade"
2:45 John Wukovits, Eisenhower: A Biography
3:55 2006 NPC: Joseph Callo "John Paul Jones"
4:00 John Allen, Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
5:00 Hal Vaughan, FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa
6:00 Encore Booknotes: Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant: A True Story - Part 1
7:00 Arthur Brooks, Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide - Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters
7:55 2006 NPC: Lanny Davis "Scandal"
8:00 History on Book TV: Robert Richardson, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
8:50 2006 NPC: John Gresham "Defcon-2"
9:00 After Words: After Words: Anthony Weller, author of "First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and its Prisoners of War" interviewed by Norman Hatch
10:00 Arthur Brooks, Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide - Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters
10:55 2006 NPC: Martin Tolchin and Susan Tolchin "A World Ignited"
11:00 James Simon, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
11:40 2006 Miami Book Fair: Paul Schneider "Brutal Journey"
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Sunday, January 7
12:00 am Gene Epstein, Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers
1:25 2006 NPC: Judge Janice Law "Yield"
1:25 Daniel Mendelsohn, Kati Marton, Rosemary Sullivan, 2006 Miami Book Fair: Holocaust Panel
2:45 Katha Pollitt, Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
2:55 Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
4:00 Harlow Unger, The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
5:00 2006 Chicago Humanities Festival-Vietnam Writers
6:35 2006 Miami Book Fair: Thomas Evans "The Education of Ronald Reagan"
6:50 2006 NPC: David Vise "The Google Story"
7:00 Anatol Lieven, John Hulsman, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World
8:35 Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
9:00 History on Book TV: Robert Richardson, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
10:00 History on Book TV: Evan Thomas, Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
10:55 2006 NPC: Carole Coleman "Alleluia America"
11:00 Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
12:00 pm In Depth: In Depth: P.J. O'Rourke
3:00 General Assignment: Stephen Shames, photographer, The Black Panthers
5:15 2006 AUSA - Philip Blood "Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe
5:30 2006 Texas Book Festival: H.W. Brands "The Money Men: The History of American Capitalism"
6:00 After Words: After Words: Anthony Weller, author of "First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and its Prisoners of War" interviewed by Norman Hatch
7:00 Daniel Golden, The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges - and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
7:40 Patrick O'Donnell, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
9:00 After Words: After Words: Anthony Weller, author of "First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and its Prisoners of War" interviewed by Norman Hatch
10:00 History on Book TV: Evan Thomas, Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
10:50 2006 NPC: Edwin Black "Internal Combustion"
11:00 Anthony Feinstein, Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War
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Monday, January 8
12:00 am In Depth: In Depth: P.J. O'Rourke
3:00 Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
4:00 Richard Williams, Jr., Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend
4:45 2006 Miami Book Fair: Neal Gabler "Walt Disney"
5:00 Michael Blake, Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency
5:30 2006 AUSA - C.E. Wood "Mud: A Military History"
5:55 2006 NPC: Derek Leebaert "To Dare and to Conquer"
6:00 Marc Wortman, The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocractic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power
7:00 Lynn Sherr, Outside the Box: A Memoir
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