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C-SPAN2's Book TV: November 17-19
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM and 3 AM ET
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov talks about how his understanding of the game of chess relates to other aspects of life. In How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom, Mr. Kasparov discusses his twenty year professional chess career and his political life as the leader of a coalition opposed to the current Russian leadership. Mr. Kasparov is interviewed by Leon Aron, the director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of Russia's Revolution: Essays, 1989- 2006.
Weekend Highlights
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M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
M. Stanton Evans argues that Joseph McCarthy does not derserve the bad reputation he has been assigned by historians. Mr. Evans says that McCarthy was correct in his assessment of the threat posed by Communists in the Unted States during the
so-called "Red Scare" and that his detractors knowingly covered up the extent of this threat.
(Saturday 12 PM, Sunday 12 AM, Monday 5:30 AM ET)
Victor Davis Hanson, Heather Mac Donald, Steven Malanga, The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's
Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steven Malanga take a critical look at U.S. immigration policy and suggest solutions that they argue would be better. This event was hosted by the Manhattan Institute in New York City.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 2 AM and 12 PM ET)
Mike Hoyt et al., Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
The editor of Reporting Iraq, Michael Hoyt and contributor Ali Fadhil, talk with journalists Deborah Amos (NPR), Anne Barnard (NYT), and Elizabeth Palmer (CBS) about the Iraq War and what it is like to cover it. This event was held at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
(Sunday 9:30 AM, Monday 1 AM ET)
Thomas DeFrank, Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Tom DeFrank spent thirty-two years talking to former President Gerald Ford in a series of conversations that the former President asked be published following his death. The reportage ranges from President Ford's recollection of the Nixon administration and Watergate to his thoughts on the presidents that followed him. Tom DeFrank discusses his book at the Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(Sunday 3 PM and 7:45 PM ET)
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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
8:00 AM 52 min Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq
Author: Ian Klaus
8:50 AM 4 min Book TV Bus Vignette: Changing Hands Book Store
Author: Changing Hands
9:00 AM 2 hr, 58 min In Depth: Vincent Bugliosi
12:00 PM 58 min Public Lives
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: M. Stanton Evans
1:00 PM 37 min Unbowed: A Memoir
Author: Wangari Maathai
1:35 PM 6 min Book TV Bus - Hal Elliott Wert, "Hoover The Fishing President: Portrait of the Private Man and His Life Outdoors"
Author: Hal Wert
1:45 PM 42 min History
America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, The Race to the Pole, The Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation
Author: Jim Rasenberger
2:30 PM 53 min History
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space Engineer of War
Author: Michael Neufeld
3:20 PM 5 min The Hill's Sixth Annual Political Book Fair: Rep. Jay Inslee, "Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy"
Author: Jay Inslee
3:30 PM 55 min The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda
Author: Yaroslav Trofimov
4:30 PM 1 hr, 34 min India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Author: Ramachandra Guha
6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes: A World Transformed
Authors: George H. W. Bush; Brent Scowcroft
7:00 PM 56 min The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's
Authors: Victor Davis Hanson; Heather Mac Donald; Steven Malanga
8:00 PM 1 hr Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Author: Richard Rhodes
9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Garry Kasparov author of "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom" interviewed by Leon Aron
10:00 PM 56 min 2007 National Book Awards
Authors: Edwidge Danticat; Christopher Hitchens; Woody Holton; Arnold Rampersad; Tim Weiner
11:00 PM 58 min After Words: Tim Weiner author of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" - 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
12:00 AM 58 min Public Lives
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: M. Stanton Evans
1:00 AM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
Author: Norman Mailer
2:00 AM 56 min The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's
Authors: Victor Davis Hanson; Heather Mac Donald; Steven Malanga
3:30 AM 1 hr, 14 min Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea
Author: Bruce Bechtol
4:45 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Mexican Mafia
Author: Tony Rafael
6:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min Henry Kissinger and the American Century
Author: Jeremi Suri
7:00 AM 1 hr, 7 min History
Head and Heart: American Christianities
Authors: Rev. Alan Jones; Garry Wills
8:15 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Mexican Mafia
Author: Tony Rafael
9:20 AM 8 min Book TV Bus - Michael Barnett, "Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda"
Author: Michael Barnett
9:30 AM 1 hr, 44 min Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
Author: Mike Hoyt et al.
11:15 AM 49 min You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think
Author: Kinky Friedman
12:00 PM 56 min The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's
Authors: Victor Davis Hanson; Heather Mac Donald; Steven Malanga
1:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
Author: Norman Mailer
2:00 PM 1 hr, 2 min Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Author: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)
3:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Author: Thomas DeFrank
4:00 PM 50 min War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror
Author: Robert "Buzz" Patterson
5:00 PM 1 hr, 7 min History
Head and Heart: American Christianities
Authors: Rev. Alan Jones; Garry Wills
6:00 PM 58 min After Words: Garry Kasparov author of "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom" interviewed by Leon Aron
7:00 PM 49 min Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
Author: Marjorie Cohn
7:45 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Author: Thomas DeFrank
9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Garry Kasparov author of "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom" interviewed by Leon Aron
10:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min AEI Bradley Lecture: Sam Tanenhaus on George W. Bush and the Future of Conservatism
Author: Sam Tanenhaus
11:20 PM 34 min Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
Author: Ben Mezrich
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Monday, November 19, 2007
12:00 AM 58 min After Words: Garry Kasparov author of "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom" interviewed by Leon Aron
1:00 AM 1 hr, 44 min Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
Author: Mike Hoyt et al.
2:40 AM 5 min 2007 National Press Club Book and Author Night Jeff Gannon, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report"
Author: Jeff Gannon
2:45 AM 9 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Peter Baker & Susan Glasser, Co-authors, "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution"
Authors: Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
3:00 AM 58 min After Words: Garry Kasparov author of "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom" interviewed by Leon Aron
4:00 AM 1 hr, 34 min Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Author: Ayesha Siddiqa
5:30 AM 58 min Public Lives
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: M. Stanton Evans
6:30 AM 1 hr, 30 min How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life
Authors: Gigi Anders; Marie Arana; Quique Aviles; Tom Miller; Ray Suarez
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