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C-SPAN2's Book TV: September 9-11
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After Words
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM ET, Sunday 6 and 9 PM ET
In his book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright provides a detailed account of the events leading up to the September 2001 attack on the United States.
Mr. Wright discuses the book with James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute.
Weekend Highlights
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Brooke Masters, Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer
The author examines New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the impact of his aggressive prosecutions of white collar crime and corporate fraud. (Saturday 4:30 PM ET)
Jan Goldman, Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
The author discusses how intelligence professionals respond when their ethical beliefs conflict with their job responsibilities. (Saturday 7 PM ET, Sunday 12:10 PM ET)
Brian Latell, After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader
The author explores the relationship between Fidel Castro and his probable successor, brother Raul Castro. (Saturday 7:50 PM ET, Sunday 11 AM ET)
David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
The Pulitzer Prize-winning winning author details the British and American abolitionist movements and analyzes the social and economic impact of American slavery on the growth of the country. (Saturday 10 PM ET, Sunday 4 PM ET)
Louis Uchitelle, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
The author talks about the economic and psychological effects of layoffs on the American workforce. (Sunday 10 AM and 7 PM ET)
Tom Zoellner, The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire The author talks about the diamond industry and also about the tenth largest diamond-producing nation in the world, the Central African Republic. (Sunday 8 PM ET)
Brian Jenkins, Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy Strengthening Ourselves
The author argues that to defeat Al Qaeda, the U.S. must implement a multi-pronged counterterror strategy that includes an ideological and political component.
(Sunday 10 PM ET)
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Saturday, September 9
8:00 am Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
9:00 In Depth: In Depth: Tammy Bruce
12:05 pm Peter Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
1:15 Anthony Arthur, Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair
2:00 John West and Casey Luskin, Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Decision
3:35 2006 Printers Row: Robert Remini "The House"
4:30 Public Lives: Brooke Masters, Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer
6:00 Encore Booknotes: Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
7:00 General Assignment: Jan Goldman, Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
7:50 History on Book TV: Brian Latell, After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader
9:00 After Words: After Words: Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," interviewed by James Zogby
10:00 History on Book TV: David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
11:15 History on Book TV: 2006 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Fergus Bordewich
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Sunday, September 10
12:00 am Tony Hall, Changing the Face of Hunger
1:00 Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
2:15 2006 Printers Row: James Green "Death in the Haymarket"
3:00 Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History
4:15 Thomas Desjardin, Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775
5:30 Kristian Williams, American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination
7:00 Paul Hollander, ed., From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States
8:00 Eric Boehlert, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush
9:00 Pat Buchanan, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
10:00 General Assignment: Louis Uchitelle, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
11:00 History on Book TV: Brian Latell, After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader
12:10 pm General Assignment: Jan Goldman, Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
1:00 Harry Lewis, Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education
2:15 History on Book TV: 2006 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Fergus Bordewich
3:00 After Words: Rahm Emanuel, co-author of "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," interviewed by Michael Tackett
4:00 History on Book TV: David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
5:05 Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
6:00 After Words: After Words: Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," interviewed by James Zogby
7:00 General Assignment: Louis Uchitelle, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
8:00 General Assignment: Tom Zoellner, The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
9:00 After Words: After Words: Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," interviewed by James Zogby
10:00 General Assignment: Brian Jenkins, Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy Strengthening Ourselves
11:20 Clark Kent Ervin, Open Target: Where America Is Vulnerable to Attack
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Monday, September 11
12:00 am After Words: Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, authors of "Without Precedent," interviewed by Marvin Kalb
1:00 Melanie Phillips, Londonistan
2:00 Gino Strada and Howard Zinn, Green Parrots & Just War
3:30 Victor Davis Hanson, An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism
4:45 Thomas Friedman, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exloring the World After September 11: The World in the Age of Terrorism
6:00 BookExpo 2002: Rudy Giuliani on 9/11 & his book "Leadership"
6:45 Fawaz Gerges, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy
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