Book TV Schedule: March 10th - 12th

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: March 10-12
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After Words
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
In The Long Road Home, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz reports on a 2004 ambush in Sadr City, Iraq, in which eight Americans died and more than sixty were wounded. Ms. Raddatz says the battle was a turning point in the Iraq War because it marked the initial emergence of a full-blown Iraqi insurgency. She is interviewed by retired Marine Corps colonel Thomas Hammes, who wrote about insurgent-style warfare in his book The Sling and the Stone.


Weekend Highlights
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Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk talks about his book with Laura Flanders, host of the Laura Flanders Show on Air America Radio. The book covers his thirty years of reporting from the Middle East.
Mr. Fisk is the recipient of the Lannan Foundation's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Prize for Cultural Freedom, and the Middle East correspondent for the London Independent.
(Saturday 4:30 PM, Monday 6:35 AM ET)

Bernard Lewis, 2007 AEI Irving Kristol Award Lecture
Bernard Lewis is the recipient of the 2007 Irving Kristol Award presented by the American Enterprise Institute at the Institute's annual dinner. After receiving the award, Mr. Lewis delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture, outlining the historical relationship between the west and the middle east, and recent trends in European attitudes towards Muslims.
(Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 10 AM and 2 PM ET)

Joseph Cirincione, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
In his book, Joseph Cirincione presents the history of nuclear proliferation and takes looks at our present condition. He also suggests ways reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Mr. Cirincione is currently vice president for national security at the Center for American Progress.
(Saturday 11 PM, Sunday 4 PM ET)

Lisa Margonelli, Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
In researching her book, Lisa Margonelli set out to follow the path of oil production, from the oil field to the gas station. She explains how oil is extracted, refined, and distributed, with a special focus on five oil-producing countries: Venezuela, Chad, Iran, Nigeria, and China.
(Sunday 1 PM ET)

Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Jeremy Schaap tells the story of Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the Berlin games in Germany in 1936. Schaap opines on the historical importance of Owens, who was an African American athlete, and whose victories at the games flew in the face of Hitlers' ideas of Aryan supremacy.
(Sunday 3 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, March 10

8:00 am Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965

9:00 In Depth: Barbara Ehrenreich

12:00 pm General Assignment: Richard Vedder, The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy

1:35 Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

2:40 Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression

3:45 James Simon, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers

4:30 Robert Fisk with Laura Flanders, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

6:00 Encore Booknotes: Irvin Molotsky, The Flag, The Poet and The Song: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner

7:00 General Assignment: Richard Vedder, The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy

8:35 Barrett McGurn, Author and Journalist interview about his career

9:00 After Words: After Words: Martha Raddatz, author of "The Long Road Home," interviewed by Col. Thomas Hammes, author of "The Sling and the Stone"

10:00 General Assignment: Bernard Lewis, 2007 AEI Irving Kristol Award Lecture

10:55 2006 NPC: Karyn McLaughlin Frist "Love You, Daddy Boy"

11:00 General Assignment: Joseph Cirincione, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons



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Sunday, March 11

12:30 am Barrett McGurn, Author and Journalist interview about his career

12:55 2006 NPC: Ray Suarez "Holy Vote"

1:00 Michael Tanner, Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution

3:30 Peter Lance, Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI - and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him

5:35 Patrick Coyle, The Conservative Guide to Campus Activism

6:30 Stuart Franklin Platt, Letters From the Front Lines

7:15 Susan Eaton, The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

8:15 2007 CPAC: William Bennett "America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom"

8:30 Edward Humes, Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul

9:35 2006 Texas Book Festival: Kati Marton "The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World"

10:00 General Assignment: Bernard Lewis, 2007 AEI Irving Kristol Award Lecture

10:55 2006 NPC: Judge Janice Law "Yield"

11:00 General Assignment: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries

12:45 pm 2006 Texas Book Festival: Candice Millard "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey"

1:00 Lisa Margonelli, Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

2:00 General Assignment: Bernard Lewis, 2007 AEI Irving Kristol Award Lecture

2:55 2006 NPC: Derek Leebaert "To Dare and to Conquer"

3:00 Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

4:00 Joseph Cirincione, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

5:30 2007 CPAC: William Bennett "America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom"

5:35 2006 Miami Book Fair: Donna Gehrke-White "The Face Behind the Veil"

6:00 After Words: After Words: Martha Raddatz, author of "The Long Road Home," interviewed by Col. Thomas Hammes, author of "The Sling and the Stone"

7:00 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards- Autobiography Finalists Readings

7:25 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Criticism Finalists Readings

7:45 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Biography Finalists Readings

8:15 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nonfiction Finalists Readings

9:00 After Words: After Words: Martha Raddatz, author of "The Long Road Home," interviewed by Col. Thomas Hammes, author of "The Sling and the Stone"

10:00 Joseph Phillips, He Talk Like a White Boy

11:10 Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Traditions


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Monday, March 12

12:00 am 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards- Autobiography Finalists Readings

12:25 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Criticism Finalists Readings

12:45 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Biography Finalists Readings

1:15 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nonfiction Finalists Readings

2:00 James Mann, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression

3:05 Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights

4:20 2007 CPAC: William Bennett "America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom"

4:30 Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

5:40 Jim Newton, Justice For All: Earl Warren And The Nation He Made

6:35 Robert Fisk with Laura Flanders, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

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1. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965

On Saturday, March 10 at 8:00 am
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Mark Moyar

Mark Moyar talks about why he thinks it was important for the U.S. to go to war in Vietnam and looks at the build-up to our full-scale involvement in the mid-1960s. He argues that South Vietnam President Diem, who was overthrown in 1963, has been wrongfully characterized in the U.S. as being an incompetent tyrant. He also criticizes the coverage of the Vietnam War by David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan and says that Ho Chi Mihn was not a nationalist leader as is commonly believed. Includes Q&A.

Mark Moyar is an associate professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. He is the author of "Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong." For more information on Prof. Moyar and his work, visit www.triumphforsaken.com.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org

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2. In Depth: Barbara Ehrenreich

In Depth: Barbara Ehrenreich
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0307/arc_btv030407_4.ram

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of at least thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America." Her new book is "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy." She is a contributing writer at Time magazine and a contributor to the New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive. Call in during In Depth to talk to Barbara Ehrenreich or e-mail your questions for her to [e-mail].

Barbara Ehrenreich's work includes: "Long March, Short Spring the Student Uprising at Home and Abroad" (1969), "The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics" (1971), "Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers" (1972), "Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness" (1977), "Women in the Global Factory" (1983), "Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex" (1987), "The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment" (1987), "For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women" (1989), "Worst Years of Our Lives" (1990), "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class" (1990), "Kipper's Game" (1993), "The Snarling Citizen: Essays" (1995), "Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy" (2004), "For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women" (2005), "Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War" (1998), "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" (2001), "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" (2005), "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy" (2007). For more information, visit barbaraehrenreich.com.

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3. The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy

On Saturday, March 10 at 12:00 pm and at 7:00 pm
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The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy
Richard Vedder
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0307/btv030407_4.ram

At the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, Richard Vedder discusses his book, "The Wal-Mart Revolution." The book asserts that Wal-Mart stores benefit consumers by offering low prices, benefit employees by offering fair wages, and benefit communities by boosting employment and income. Andrew Grossman, founder of Wal-Mart Watch, and Michael Barone, senior writer at U.S. News & World Report, respond to Mr. Vedder’s remarks.

Richard Vedder is an economics professor at Ohio University, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington, DC. Andrew Grossman of Grossman Innovative Strategies is the founder of Wal-Mart Watch. Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

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4. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

On Saturday, March 10 at 1:35 pm
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Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Greg Grandin

President Bush is currently in Latin America visiting Brazil, Guatemala, Uruguay, Mexico, and Columbia. Book TV presents an encore presentation of Greg Grandin's 2006 book "Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperalism." The author, a Latin American history professor at NYU, explains that the U.S. has intervened in Latin America repeatedly from Thomas Jefferson's presidency to the current administration.

Greg Grandin teaches Latin American history at New York University and is also the author of "The Last Colonial Massacre" and "The Blood of Guatemala." He has written for The New York Times, The Nation and Harper's and served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan civil war.

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5. Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression

On Saturday, March 10 at 2:40 pm
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Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression
Alvaro Vargas Llosa

President Bush is in Latin America visiting Brazil, Uruguay, Columbia, Mexico, and Guatemala. This weekend, Book TV presents an encore presentation of Alvaro Vargas Llosa discussing his book, "Liberty for Latin America," about the structural problems that have prevented Latin America from becoming an economic success story. Mr. Llosa argues that, over the centuries, Latin American countries have been shackled by five principal forms of oppression that have impeded these countries from implementing true free-market policies. Mr. Llosa talks about these forms of oppression and explains why he is still optimistic that things could change.

Alvaro Varga Llosa is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland. Mr. Llosa's work has appeared in the Miami Herald, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine. His books include "The Madness of Things Peruvian" and "Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot."

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 19 Union Square West New York, NY 10003

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6. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers

On Saturday, March 10 at 3:45 pm
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Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
James Simon

Law professor James Simon examines the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice RogerTaney. At Pickwick Book Shop in Nyack, New York, Mr. Simon discusses his new book and details the backgrounds and beliefs of both men. James Simon explains that even though the former president and Chief Justice Taney, the man who administered the oath of office to Lincoln, disagreed on secession, slavery and the president's wartime authority, they actually had a lot in common and could have worked together under different circumstances. Taney was Chief Justice during the court's Dred Scott decision, which happened 150 years ago this week.

James Simon is Dean Emeritus and a law professor at New York Law School. He is the author of "What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States."

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7. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

On Saturday, March 10 at 4:30 pm and Monday, March 12 at 6:35 am
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk with Laura Flanders

At an event hosted by the Lannan Foundation and the Nation Institute, Robert Fisk talks about his book, "The Great War for Civilisation," with Laura Flanders, host of the Laura Flanders Show on Air America Radio. The book covers Mr. Fisk's thirty years of reporting from the Middle East. Robert Fisk is the recipient of the Lannan Foundation's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Prize for Cultural Freedom.

Robert Fisk is Middle East correspondent for the London Independent (independent.co.uk). He has been based in Beirut for more than thirty years and has covered every major war in the Middle East over that period. Mr. Fisk has been given seven British International Journalist of the Year awards for his work. His previous books include "Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon" and "In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-45."

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8. The Flag, The Poet and The Song: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner

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On Saturday, March 10 at 6:00 pm
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The Flag, The Poet and The Song: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner
Irvin Molotsky

Irvin Molotsky details the story of what truly motivated Francis Scott Key, a Washington lawyer, to write the poem that eventually became America's national anthem. "The Flag, The Poet and The Song" offers a brief history of the American flag and chronicles the events of the War of 1812,

Irvin Molotsky was a reporter and editor for the New York Times for 34 years. He retired in April of 1999 and has been working in Paris every summer for the International Herald Tribune as a copy editor since 2001.

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9. Barrett McGurn - Author and Journalist interview about his career

On Saturday, March 10 at 8:35 pm and Sunday, March 11 at 12:30 am
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Author and Journalist interview about his career
Barrett McGurn

Barrett McGurn served 14 months as a combat correspondent for the WWII army weekly magazine, "Yank". Mr. McGurn has published a total of 6 books, the first in 1958. As a foreign correspondent between 1946 and 1966, Barrett McGurn covered 8 wars and was stationed in Rome, Moscow, and Paris. In this interview recorded in his Maryland home, Mr. McGurn reviews his writing and journalism career.

Barrett McGurn was born in 1914. He served 14 months in the Western Pacific in the U.S. Army as a combat correspodent for Yank magazine. He later served as national bureau chief before the magazine stopped publication at the end of WWII. From 1946 to 1966 he was a foreign correspondent for the New York and Paris Herald Tribune newspapers. In 1966 he became a foreign service officer and served in Rome, Saigon, and the State Department. In 1973 he was hired as the first public information officer for the U.S. Supreme Court where he worked until retiring in 1982. He lives in Maryland with his wife Janice Ann McLaughlin.

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing 16100 Table Mountain Parkway Golden, CO 80403

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10. After Words: Martha Raddatz interviewed by Col. Thomas Hammes

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On Saturday, March 10 at 9:00 pm and Sunday, March 11 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm
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After Words: Martha Raddatz, author of "The Long Road Home," interviewed by Col. Thomas Hammes, author of "The Sling and the Stone"

In "The Long Road Home" ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz reports on a 2004 ambush in Sadr City, Iraq, in which eight Americans died and more than sixty were wounded. Ms. Raddatz says the battle was a turning point in the Iraq War because it marked the initial emergence of a full-blown Iraqi insurgency. Martha Raddatz is interviewed by retired Marine Corps colonel Thomas Hammes, who wrote about insurgent-style warfare in his book "The Sling and the Stone."

Martha Raddatz is chief White House correspondent for ABC News. Before that, she was ABC's senior national security correspondent. Thomas Hammes, a retired Marine Corps colonel, is the author of "The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century."

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11. 2007 AEI Irving Kristol Award Lecture - Bernard Lewis

On Saturday, March 10 at 10:00 pm and Sunday, March 11 at 10:00 am and at 2:00 pm
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2007 AEI Irving Kristol Award Lecture
Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis is the recipient of the 2007 Irving Kristol Award presented annually by the American Enterprise Institute at the institute's annual dinner. After receiving the award, Mr. Lewis delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture. In his lecture, Bernard Lewis outlined the historical relationship between the west and the middle east and recent trends in European attitudes towards Muslims. To find out more about the award, visit: www.aei.org/kristolaward.

Bernard Lewis, who turned 90 in 2006, is professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. His many books include: "What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Modern Middle East" and "The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror."

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12. Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

On Saturday, March 10 at 11:00 pm and Sunday, March 11 at 4:00 pm
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Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
Joseph Cirincione

Joseph Cirincione talks about his latest book at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. In the book, Mr. Cirincione presents the history of nuclear proliferation and takes looks at our present condition. He also suggests ways reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. During the event, Mr. Cirincione is interviewed by Dafna Linzer, staff writer at the Washington Post.

Joseph Cirincione, who teaches at Georgetown University, is currently vice president for national security at the Center for American Progress. He was previously director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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13. Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution

On Sunday, March 11 at 1:00 am
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Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
Michael Tanner

In his book "Leviathan on the Right," author Michael Tanner criticizes the Republican party for using big-government tactics to serve conservative ends. Mr. Tanner warns that the party’s recent move toward greater spending and regulation are indications that it has strayed from the traditional conservative belief in limited government. Commenting during this event is former republican representative Dick Armey (R-Texas) who is critical of congressional republicans and President Bush for their "big government" tendencies.

Michael Tanner is director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. He is the editor of the book "Social Security and Its Discontents." Daniel Casse is Senior Director of the White House Writers Group and a former special assistant to President George W. Bush. Dick Armey (R-TX) was a U.S. congressman for 18 years and served as majority leader from 1995 to 2003.

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14. Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI ...

On Sunday, March 11 at 3:30 am
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Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI - and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him
Peter Lance
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0307/btv030407_4b.ram

Peter Lance discusses what he describes as the incompetence of the FBI and Justice Department before 9/11. In "Triple Cross" the author looks at the infiltration of the CIA and FBI by Al Qaeda agent Ali Mohamed. Mr. Lance argues that by posiing as an FBI informant, Ali Mohamed was able to lead a double life for nearly two decades. All efforts to stop him, including efforts by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, failed.

Peter Lance is an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and the author of "1000 Years for Revenge," "Cover Up" and the novel "First Degree Burn." He is a former correspondent for ABC News and has covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. For more information, visit: peterlance.com.

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15. The Conservative Guide to Campus Activism

On Sunday, March 11 at 5:35 am
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The Conservative Guide to Campus Activism
Patrick Coyle
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0307/btv030407_4d.ram

Patrick Coyle offers advice on how college students can spread conservatism across their campuses. This event was hosted by the Young America's Foundation Reagan Ranch High School Conference in Santa Barbara, California.

Patrick Coyle is the author of "Campus Conservative Battleplan" and a founding board member of the Nittany Freedom Foundation. The Nittany Freedom Foundation works to provide financial and logistical support to conservative students at Penn State University. Mr. Coyle is also the creator of both the 9/11: Never Forget Project and Freedom Week.

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16. Letters From the Front Lines

On Sunday, March 11 at 6:30 am
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Letters From the Front Lines
Stuart Franklin Platt

Admiral Stuart Platt shares correspondence to and from soldiers and their families in his new collection "Letters from the Front Lines: Iraq and Afghanistan." At this event at Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, Platt reads selected letters and explains the process he undertook to collect them. In doing so, he describes what he considers to be the unique aspects of correspondence during contemporary conflicts, including the impact of e-mail on censorship and the role of the blogosphere in his own data collection. He also emphasizes the diversity of information received from soldiers' letters, and argues that while the American media may critique the war, the troops abroad maintain a level of professionalism and commitment to their assignment.

A Vietnam veteran, Stuart Franklin was appointed by the Reagan administration to be the Navy’s first Competition Advocate General. In this role, he led a program to reform the Navy’s process of purchasing ships, aircraft and weapons. His first book, "The Armament Tide - ReArming America," was published in 2002. Currently, Admiral Platt is Chairman of Harbor Wing Technologies, Inc., which produces un-manned open ocean surveillance and research vessels. He is also former Chairman of the Wornick Company, a supplier of Combat and Humanitarian rations to the Department of Defense.

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17. The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

On Sunday, March 11 at 7:15 am
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The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial
Susan Eaton
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0207/btv022507_4.ram

In an event at the University of Connecticut in West Hartford, Connecticut, education reporter Susan Eaton discusses the four years she spent at nearby Simpson-Waverly Elementary School, an all-minority school in a low-income Hartford neighborhood. In her book, "The Children in Room E4," she sites Simpson-Waverly as evidence of what she describes as America’s de facto school segregation policies.

Susan Eaton has contributed to the Nation, the Hartford Courant, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. She is the former assistant director of the project on school desegregation at Harvard University.

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18. Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul

On Sunday, March 11 at 8:30 am
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Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
Edward Humes
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0307/btv030307_4b.ram

In "Monkey Girl," Edward Hughes tells the story of the 2005 court case Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, in which teachers and parents sued the Dover, Pennsylvania school district and school board for mandating the teaching of intelligent design, the theory that the existence of life on earth can only be explained by the participation of a designer. They argued that intelligent design is thinly-disguised creationism and that teaching it violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The school board argued that intelligent design is a scientific theory and should be taught alongside evolution. On Dec. 20, 2005, Judge John Jones ruled the school board had violated the constitution and also that "intelligent design was a religious proposition, and not science."

Edward Hughes is the author of eight nonfiction books, including "Mississippi Mud," "School of Dreams," and "Over Here." He is writer at large for Los Angeles Magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his reporting on the military in Southern California.

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19. Kati Marton "The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World"

On Sunday, March 11 at 9:35 am
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2006 Texas Book Festival: Kati Marton "The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World"

In an interview from the Texas Book Festival, Kati Marton discusses her book "The Great Escape," which tells the stories of nine men who left Budapest, Hungary, because of growing anti-Semitism in the years leading up to World War II. The nine men include four scientists (Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, and Eugene Wigner), two movie-makers (Michael Curtiz and Alexander Korda), two photographers (Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz), and one writer (Arthur Koestler).

Kati Marton is a former correspondent for NPR and ABC News. Her other books include "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History," "Wallenberg," "The Polk Conspiracy," "A Death in Jerusalem," and "An American Woman." She is married to Richard Holbrooke.

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20. Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries

On Sunday, March 11 at 11:00 am
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Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0207/btv022507_4c.ram

Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, talks about his new book of collected essays about the cosmos.

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson became director of the Hayden Planetarium in 1996. Mr. Tyson is the author of several books, including "Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution" (with Donald Goldsmith) and "The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist." For more, visit: research.amnh.org/~tyson/.

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21. Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

On Sunday, March 11 at 1:00 pm
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
Lisa Margonelli

In researching her book "Oil on the Brain," Lisa Margonelli set out to follow the path of oil production, from the oil field to the gas station. She explains how oil is extracted, refined, and distributed, with a special focus on five oil-producing countries: Venezuela, Chad, Iran, Nigeria, and China.

Lisa Margonelli is an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Business 2.0, Discover, and Jane.

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22. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

On Sunday, March 11 at 3:00 pm
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Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Jeremy Schaap
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/history/0307/btv030307_1.ram

Jeremy Schaap tells the story of Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the Berlin games in Germany in 1936. Schaap opines on the historical importance of Owens, who was an African American athlete and whose victories at the games flew in the face of Hitlers' ideas of Aryan supremacy. The author is in conversation with Bert Gambini, Executive Producer of the Meet the Author Series at public radio station WBFO, Buffalo.

Jeremy Schaap is an ESPN anchor and author of "Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History."

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23. 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards- Autobiography Finalists Readings

On Sunday, March 11 at 7:00 pm and Monday, March 12 at 12:00 am
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2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards- Autobiography Finalists Readings

The winners of this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on Thursday in New York. At this event, the five finalists in the autobiography category read from their nominated books.

This year's National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography went to Daniel Mendelsohn for "The Lost." The other nominees were Donald Antrim for "The Afterlife," Alison Bechdel for "Fun Home," Alexander Masters for "Stuart," and Terri Jentz for "Strange Piece of Paradise." The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) was founded in 1974 and is currently made up of nearly 700 book reviewers. Every year the NBCC gives out awards for books in six categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism. For more information, visit bookcritics.org.

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24. 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Criticism Finalists Readings

On Sunday, March 11 at 7:25 pm and Monday, March 12 at 12:25 am
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2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Criticism Finalists Readings

The winners of this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on Thursday in New York. At this event, three finalists in the criticism category read from their nominated books.

This year's National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism went to Lawrence Weschler for "Everything That Rises." The other nominees that read from their books at this event were Frederick Crews, author of "Follies of the Wise," and Lia Purpora, author of "On Looking." Bruce Bawer, author of "While Europe Slept," and Daniel Dennett, author of "Breaking the Spell," were also nominated in this category. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) was founded in 1974 and is currently made up of nearly 700 book reviewers. Every year the NBCC gives out awards for books in six categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism. For more information, visit bookcritics.org.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Biography Finalists Readings

On Sunday, March 11 at 7:45 pm and Monday, March 12 at 12:45 am
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2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Biography Finalists Readings

The winners of this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on Thursday in New York. At this event, the five finalists in the biography category read from their nominated books. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) was founded in 1974 and is currently made up of nearly 700 book reviewers. Every year the NBCC gives out awards for books in six categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism. For more information, visit bookcritics.org.

This year's National Book Critics Circle Award in biography went to Julie Phillips for "James Tiptree, Jr." The other nominees were Debby Applegate for "The Most Famous Man in America," Taylor Branch for "At Canaan's Edge," Frederick Brown for "Flaubert," and Jason Robets for "A Sense of the World." The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) was founded in 1974 and is currently made up of nearly 700 book reviewers. Every year the NBCC gives out awards for books in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. For more information, visit bookcritics.org.

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26. 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nonfiction Finalists Readings

On Sunday, March 11 at 8:15 pm and Monday, March 12 at 1:15 am
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2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nonfiction Finalists Readings

The winners of this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on Thursday in New York. At this event, four finalists in the general nonfiction category read from their nominated books.

This year's National Book Critics Circle Award in general nonfiction went to Simon Schama for "Rough Crossings." The other nominees were Patrick Cockburn for "The Occupation," Ann Fessler for "The Girls Who Went Away," Sandy Tolan for "The Lemon Tree," and Michael Pollan for "The Omnivore's Dilemma." The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) was founded in 1974 and is currently made up of nearly 700 book reviewers. Every year the NBCC gives out awards for books in six categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism. For more information, visit bookcritics.org.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

27. He Talk Like a White Boy

On Sunday, March 11 at 10:00 pm
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He Talk Like a White Boy
Joseph Phillips
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0207/btv022507_4b.ram

Joseph Phillips discusses his experience as a black conservative in Hollywood and explores the development of his political views in his memoir, "He Talk Like a White Boy." At the Young America's Foundation's Reagan Ranch High School Conference, Mr. Phillips shares his thoughts on family, faith, character and identity.

Joseph C. Phillips is an actor, writer, lecturer, and social commentator best known for his role on "The Cosby Show" as the character Denise's husband, Lt. Martin Kendall. He has also been in the films "Strictly Business," "Midnight Blue," and "Let's Talk about Sex." Mr. Phillip's writing has appeared in Newsweek, Los Angeles Daily News, Essence, Upscale, USA Today, and more. His weekly column, "The Way I See It," appears in several newspapers.

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28. The Seventeen Traditions

On Sunday, March 11 at 11:10 pm
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The Seventeen Traditions
Ralph Nader
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0207/btv021707_4b.ram

In his book "The Seventeen Traditions" Ralph Nader writes about his childhood in Connecticut and the influence of his Lebanese immigrant parents. He discusses how his life choices have been shaped by the values he inherited from his family and community, including "the tradition of discipline," "the tradition of independed thinking," and "the tradition of patriotism."

Ralph Nader ran for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket in 1996 and 2000 and as an independent in 2004. He is the author of several books, including "Unsafe at Any Speed," an indictment of the auto industry published in 1965. As a consumer advocate he has spoken out on a variety of issues, including health care, food safety, environmental pollution, worker rights, tax reform, civil rights, and corporate influence.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

29. The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression

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The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression
James Mann
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0307/btv030307_4.ram

James Mann takes a critical look at the assumption that the best way to improve the political situation in China is through the spread of capitalism. He argues that while this justification is used today to limit criticism of the Chinese government's human rights record, it is possible that China could liberalize its economy while continuining to repress its citizens.

James Mann is the author of "The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet." He covered China for the Los Angeles Times and was the newspaper's Beijing bureau chief from 1984 to 1987. He is currently author in residence at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

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30. Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights

On Monday, March 12 at 3:05 am
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Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson

Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson talk about the CIA's practice of sending suspected terrorists to countries where, the authors argue, they are kept in secret prisons and subjected to torture. They explain how the CIA uses front companies to hide the real purpose of these rendition flights and discuss how they investigated the story. This event was hosted by City Lights bookstore in San Francisco.

Trevor Paglen, who is working on his PhD (Dept. of Geography, UC-Berkeley), is the author of the two-volume "Secret Bases, Secret Wars" (www.paglen.com). A.C. Thompson is a staff writer at S.F. Weekly.

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31. Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Rebecca Goldstein

In "Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity" author Rebecca Goldstein writes about 17th-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza who was excommunicated for heresy at the age of twenty-three. Ms. Goldstein explores the conflict between his identity as a Jew and his belief in a secular, rationalist philosophy. She argues that his secular attitude was a response to a crisis of Jewish identity that he witnessed among the exiles of the Spanish Inquisition living in his community. The event was held at the Jewish Community Center in Washington, DC.

Rebecca Goldstein is the author of "The Mind-Body Problem" and a philosophy professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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32. Justice For All: Earl Warren And The Nation He Made

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Justice For All: Earl Warren And The Nation He Made
Jim Newton

In his biography of Earl Warren, Jim Newton recounts the life of the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1953 to 1969. The author examines Mr. Warren's tenure on the Court where he presided over such historic cases as Brown v. Board of Education, that desegregated schools; Griswold v. Connecticut, that established a constitutional right of privacy; and Engel v. Vitale, that outlawed prayer in public schools. Mr. Newton also focuses on Earl Warren's earlier years as Attorney General and later Governor of California.

Jim Newton is the City-County Bureau Chief at the Los Angeles Times.

[Lady Effingbroke]

33. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this schedule every week.

I really appreciate it! :hi:

I'm looking forward to the Barbara Ehrenreich interview tomorrow morning.

Edit: K&R

[Kurovski]

35. I shall also voice my gratitude...

I am new to DU and find your weekly BookTV thread to be a most welcome sight at the end of a harried week of trading millions upon millions of dollars in my job as professional Monopoly gamesmen. And so "Huzzah" to you!

I am secure in my assumption that you are a very erudite and charming young woman. Your accompanying illustrations posted from the world of art and photography are a piquant addition to a most delightful thread.

I ascertain that your intent is to have this week's theme reflect "men and books".

Please do allow me to play my little part in contributing to that end...



Laura Flanders!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

36. Liar!

Liiiiaaaaarrr!

I forgive you, just because of the pic! hubba hubba!

:rofl:


Actually, this week's theme is 'Solitude'

[Kurovski]

38. Well, there is but one man in that picture, is there not?

I'll grant that he's looking for company, but...he is alone in a most studious and peaceful environment.

I had no idea the creator of this thread was prone to impertinence. Because, as I previously stated, I am new to DU.

:loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

39. ha!

[Kurovski]

40. Is it a DU custom to greet with mocking scorn, and cry "j'accuse!" with scalding suspicion?

Oh...wait...it's the OFFICIAL greeting to DU newbies!:D

[Viva_La_Revolution]

42. oh! excuse me for being rude!

to DU Kur-ov-ski!

:P

:rofl:

[Kurovski]

44. Well that's better, or at least

less rude. Which is all one can reasonably hope for these days.

You know, I'm a life-long Democrat but I can't help but think that George W. Bush is a simply marvelous president. :evilgrin:

Or as George used to say in his gayer days, he's a "fabulous" president.

[Kurovski]

43. Pay no mind to the typo in my profile.

I will be contacting the Administrators to correct the error. "2001" should read "2007".

Or perhaps it is an unusually upright and stubby-headed "7".

So the problem may be with the font.

In any event, all shall be rectified by the middle of the next business day.

[EFerrari]

60. LOL! Laura went for a new look?

:rofl:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

37. it's a GREAT interview!

highly recommended. :)

:hi:

[Bozita]

34. Thanks, Viva. Looking forward to Robert Fisk

For those of similar mind, he appeared on Bob McChesney's Media Matters and Democracy Now! during the past week.

Both shows have archives online.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

41. thanks for the reminder!

I missed him this week on Democracy Now.

off to catch up....

:hug:

[Kurovski]

45. Kick.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

46. kick!

[Pithy Cherub]

47. Its all about the books...!

Death By Black Hole is great and his lecture is quite entertaining, especially when the audience comments about his ripped khaki's and he tells the story of the fight about the sky with Titanic's director going over years...:rofl:

Thank you ever so much Viva! :pals:

[TacticalPeek]

49. Kick.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

50. K&R

Omigod, I couldn't find the thread. Okay, out of the Panic Room now, whew!

:scared:

[Kurovski]

51. Kick.(nt)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

53. K&R for Viva!!

:kick: :kick: :kick:


:hi: :hug: :loveya: :bounce:

[Kurovski]

56. Kick!(nt)

[Kurovski]

57. Kick.(nt)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

58. ...

Erasmus stands as the supreme type of cultivated common sense applied to human affairs. He rescued theology from the pedantries of the Schoolmen, exposed the abuses of the Church, and did more than any other single person to advance the Revival of Learning.
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/erasmus.html



1523 Holbein


Your library is your paradise.
Desiderius Erasmus

[EFerrari]

59. FRED CREWS is on right now! LOL! He was the head of the

English Dept during so much. The demonstrations and boycotts for South Africa divestment, our ongoing efforts to unionize grads. He was a sweetheart. It's so good to see him.

lol