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C-SPAN2's Book TV: December 29 - January 2
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM and 3 AM ET
Amy Chua explores the history of societies that due to their unequaled military and economic superiority achieve world dominance. From the Mongols to Rome and the United States, Ms. Chua denotes the reasons why a small number of societies have reached hyper power status and the reasons for their demise. Ms. Chua discusses her book with Cullen Murphy, managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and author of Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.
Weekend Highlights - Four Days of Book TV
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Join us for four days of Book TV programming this holiday weekend, beginning Saturday, December 29, at 8 AM ET and running through Wednesday, January 2, at 8 AM ET.
Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller documents the life of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The author's talk is followed by comments by Walter Isaacson and David Rothkopf.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 7 AM and 2 PM, Tuesday 3 PM ET)
Tom Brokaw, Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Tom Brokaw talked with artists, politicians, activists, business leaders, journalists, and Vietnam veterans to document their insights on the impact of the 1960s. Mr. Brokaw also offers his own personal reflections throughout the book. This Atlanta Press Club hosted this event.
(Sunday 6 AM, Tuesday 10 AM ET)
Jared Cohen, Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Jared Cohen discusses the views and lifestyles of the young living in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Iraq. This talk was hosted by the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.
(Sunday 9 AM and 5 PM, Monday 8 AM ET)
John Kerry, and Teresa Heinz Kerry This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, write about current challenges confronting the environmental movement and describe the work of ranchers, city planners, activists, and other citizens who are addressing these challenges in all regions of the country.
(Monday 7 PM ET)
Kayce Freed Jennings et al., Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Friends and colleagues of the late ABC News anchor, Peter Jennings, discuss his life and career. Mr. Jennings' former ABC colleagues Ted Koppel, John Cochran, Kyle Gibson and their spouses hosted a party to celebrate the publication of the book. Kayce Freed Jennings, Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer, Lynn Sherr, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Peter Osnos of PublicAffairs Books were in attendance.
(Saturday 11:30 AM, Monday 10 PM ET)
In Depth - January 6, 2008 - Author Nell Painter
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January's In Depth will feature author and historian Nell Irvin Painter. Ms. Painter is the author of six books: The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South; Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877- 1919; Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol; Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction; Southern History Across the Color Line; and Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. The program will air LIVE on Sunday, January 6, from 12-3 PM ET.
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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
8:00 AM 48 min History
Retained By The People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment And The Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have
Author: Daniel Farber
9:00 AM 45 min Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other
Author: Leslie Sanchez
10:00 AM 1 hr, 31 min An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Author: Randall Robinson
11:30 AM 23 min Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Author: Kayce Freed Jennings et al. (editors)
12:00 PM 1 hr, 13 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's life, writing and impact in academia
Authors: Nigel Ashford; Mimi Gladstein; Anne Heller; Edward Hudgins; David Kelly
1:15 PM 1 hr, 1 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's thinking on economics, business ethics, and entrepreneurship
Authors: Robert Bidinotto; Rob Bradley; Ed Snider; Edward Younkins
2:15 PM 1 hr, 13 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's views on politics, the fight for freedom, and the future of objectivism
Authors: Edward Crane; John Fund; Fred Smith
3:30 PM 48 min Frank Streeter Library Sale (47:38)
Author: Various Books
4:15 PM 12 min What's New in Lincoln Books? Interview with Harold Holzer & Frank Williams
Authors: Harold Holzer; Frank Williams
4:30 PM 45 min History
Jason Emerson, "The Madness of Mary Lincoln"
Author: Jason Emerson
5:15 PM 42 min Battlefield tour with Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History"
Author: Marc Leepson
6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
Author: Jessica Stern
7:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller
8:15 PM 45 min Privacy In Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
Author: James B. Rule
9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"
10:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror By Breaking Free of Oil
Author: Robert Zubrin
11:30 PM 33 min In an Instant
Author: Bob and Lee Woodruff
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
12:00 AM 1 hr, 19 min Ghettonation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless
Author: Cora Daniels
1:30 AM 1 hr Feds in the Classroom
Author: Neal McCluskey
2:30 AM 1 hr 40th Anniversary of the Third World Press
Authors: Haki Madhubuti; Walter Mosley
3:30 AM 1 hr, 37 min Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
Author: Norman Solomon
5:15 AM 40 min Charge: History's Greatest Military Speeches
Author: Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY)
6:00 AM 56 min History
Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Author: Tom Brokaw
7:00 AM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller
8:15 AM 39 min Politics
The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President: Who the Candidates Are, Where They Come From, and How You Can Choose
Author: Mark Halperin
9:00 AM 56 min Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Author: Jared Cohen
10:00 AM 49 min History
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815
Author: Daniel Walker Howe
11:00 AM 56 min Politics
The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House
Author: Garrett Graff
12:00 PM 53 min Politics
Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers
Author: Karl E. Campbell
1:00 PM 1 hr, 7 min Power to the People
Author: Laura Ingraham
2:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller
3:15 PM 1 hr, 38 min Hezbollah
Author: Augustus Richard Norton
5:00 PM 56 min Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Author: Jared Cohen
6:00 PM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"
7:00 PM 59 min After Words: Rick Atkinson author of "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" interviewed by Patrick O'Donnell
8:00 PM 1 hr, 1 min iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
Author: Mark Andrejevic
9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"
10:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Author: Stephen Mihm
11:15 PM 48 min History
The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics
Author: Kim Long
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Monday, December 31, 2007
12:00 AM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"
1:00 AM 51 min Making War to Keep Peace
Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick
2:00 AM 49 min Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Author: John Dean
3:00 AM 57 min After Words: Amy Chua author of "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall" interviewed by Cullen Murphy author of "Are We Rome?"
4:00 AM 1 hr, 33 min Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
6:00 AM 58 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International: Cal Thomas, "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America"
Author: Cal Thomas
7:00 AM 27 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International - Calls with Hanna Rosin
Author: Hanna Rosin
7:30 AM 33 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International - Calls with Chris Matthews
Author: Chris Matthews
8:00 AM 56 min Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Author: Jared Cohen
9:00 AM 1 hr, 47 min Escaping the Resource Curse
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
11:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min History
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Author: Edward Larson
12:00 PM 42 min Battlefield tour with Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History"
Author: Marc Leepson
1:00 PM 59 min History
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Author: Pat Shipman
2:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg
3:15 PM 46 min Politics
Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders
Author: Christine Pelosi
4:00 PM 57 min 2007 Texas Book Festival:Trish Wood: "What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War"
Author: Trish Wood (editor)
5:00 PM 1 hr 2007 Texas Book Festival: Brandon Friedman and Marcus Luttrell on the War in Afghanistan
Authors: Brandon Friedman; Marcus Luttrell
6:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min Public Lives
Leni: The Life And Work Of Leni Riefenstahl
Author: Steven Bach
7:00 PM 1 hr, 13 min This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
Author: John and Teresa Heinz Kerry
8:10 PM 12 min What's New in Lincoln Books? Interview with Harold Holzer & Frank Williams
Authors: Harold Holzer; Frank Williams
8:30 PM 33 min In an Instant
Author: Bob and Lee Woodruff
9:00 PM 35 min Politics
The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits
Author: Diana Walker
9:30 PM 30 min Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
Authors: Bob Beckel; Cal Thomas
10:00 PM 23 min Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Author: Kayce Freed Jennings et al. (editors)
10:30 PM 52 min "My Grandfather's Son"
Author: Clarence Thomas
11:30 PM 1 hr, 6 min Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
Author: Jeffrey Ogbar
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
12:30 AM 49 min You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think
Author: Kinky Friedman
1:30 AM 52 min Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq
Author: Ian Klaus
2:30 AM 1 hr, 11 min Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Author: Maryanne Wolf
3:45 AM 1 hr, 31 min Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse
Author: Sylvain Cypel
5:15 AM 54 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International - Walter Isaacson, "Einstein: His Life and Universe"
Author: Walter Isaacson
6:00 AM 1 hr, 11 min Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Author: Eboo Patel
7:15 AM 54 min History
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since
Author: Stephen Mansfield
8:00 AM 44 min Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
Author: Don Cheadle John Prendergast
8:40 AM 12 min An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Author: Al Gore
9:00 AM 49 min History
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815
Author: Daniel Walker Howe
9:45 AM 3 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Margaret Burroughs (Co-author), "Close-ups of History: Three Decades through the Lens of an AP Photographer"
Author: Margaret Burroughs
9:50 AM 3 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Bob Deans, "The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James"
Author: Bob Deans
10:00 AM 56 min History
Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Author: Tom Brokaw
10:55 AM 4 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Shannon Perich (Co-author), "The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family by Richard Avedon"
Author: Shannon Perich
11:00 AM 58 min After Words: Nassim Nicholas Taleb author of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" interviewed by David Brooks
12:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity
Authors: Arianna Huffington; Robert Kuttner
1:00 PM 1 hr, 4 min The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
2:00 PM 51 min Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Author: Shannon Brownlee
3:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller
4:15 PM 45 min Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program
Author: Pat Duggins
5:00 PM 55 min Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle
Author: Alan Weisman
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
6:00 AM 46 min The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Author: Ronald Kessler
7:00 AM 1 hr 2007 Texas Book Festival: Brandon Friedman and Marcus Luttrell on the War in Afghanistan
Authors: Brandon Friedman; Marcus Luttrell
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