List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1993

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast Author Book Link to transcript Subject matter
January 3, 1993 Michael Davis and Hunter Clark Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench Link Thurgood Marshall
January 10, 1993 Jeffrey Birnbaum The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington Link Lobbying in the United States
January 17, 1993 P.F. Bentley Clinton: Portrait of Victory Link Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992
January 24, 1993 Robert Gilbert The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House Link Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness; Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Health of Ronald Reagan
January 31, 1993 Benjamin Stein A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation Link Michael Milken
February 7, 1993 Jack Nelson Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews Link The Ku Klux Klan
February 14, 1993 Nathan Miller Theodore Roosevelt: A Life Link Theodore Roosevelt
February 21, 1993 Richard Norton Smith Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation Link George Washington
February 28, 1993 Kay Mills This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Link Fannie Lou Hamer
March 6, 1993 Alex Dragnich Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia Link Serbs; Croats; Yugoslavia
March 13, 1993 Paul Kennedy Preparing for the Twenty-First Century Link 21st century
March 21, 1993 Deborah Shapley Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara Link Robert McNamara
March 28, 1993 Michael Kelly Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War Link Gulf War; 20th century history of Iraq
April 4, 1993 Nadine Cohodas Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change Link Strom Thurmond
April 11, 1993 Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933 Link Eleanor Roosevelt
April 18, 1993 Douglas Brinkley The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey Link History of the United States
April 25, 1993 Lisa Belkin First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital Link Hermann Hospital; Medical ethics
May 2, 1993 Marshall DeBruhl Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston Link Sam Houston
May 9, 1993 Charles Adams For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization Link Category:History of taxation
May 16, 1993 Anna Quindlen Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private Link Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
May 23, 1993 George Ball The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present Link Israel–United States relations
May 30, 1993 Douglas Davis The Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the Message Link Television in the United States
June 6, 1993 J. Bowyer Bell The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992 Link The Troubles
June 13, 1993 David Brock The Real Anita Hill Link Anita Hill
June 20, 1993 Howard Kurtz Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers Link Newspapers in the United States
June 27, 1993 George Shultz Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State Link Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; United States Secretary of State
July 4, 1993 Joel Krieger The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World Link International relations
July 11, 1993 David Halberstam The Fifties Link United States in the 1950s
July 18, 1993 Molly Moore A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines Link Memoir/Autobiography; United States Marine Corps; Gulf War; War journalism
July 25, 1993 David Remnick Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Link Dissolution of the Soviet Union
August 1, 1993 Alexander Brook and Warren Phillips The Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor Link Newspapers; Kennebunk, Maine
August 8, 1993 Tom Rosenstiel Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992 Link United States presidential election, 1992; ABC News
August 15, 1993 Lewis Lapham The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay Link Federal government of the United States
August 22, 1993 Harold Holzer The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Link The Lincoln-Douglas debates
August 29, 1993 Peter Macdonald Giap: The Victor in Vietnam Link General Võ Nguyên Giáp
September 5, 1993 Joseph Ellis Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams Link John Adams
September 12, 1993 Ronald Kessler The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency Link The Federal Bureau of Investigation
September 19, 1993 Madeline Cartwright For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public School Link School District of Philadelphia; Public education in the United States
September 26, 1993 Malcolm Browne Muddy Boots and Red Socks Link Memoir/Autobiography; War journalism; Vietnam War
October 3, 1993 Peter Skerry Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority Link Mexican Americans
October 10, 1993 Alan Brinkley The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People Link The History of the United States
October 17, 1993 Christopher Hitchens For the Sake of Argument Link Christopher Hitchens's political views; Christopher Hitchens's critiques of public figures
October 24, 1993 William F. Buckley Jr. Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist Link Memoir/Autobiography; The National Review; Firing Line
October 31, 1993 Andrew Nagorski The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe Link Eastern Europe
November 7, 1993 Charles Mee Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World Link Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun; Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France; Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II; Congress of Vienna; Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Yalta Conference; G7
November 14, 1993 Herbert Block Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life Link Memoir/Autobiography; Editorial cartoons
November 28, 1993 Betty Friedan The Fountain of Age Link Ageing
December 5, 1993 Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years Link Memoir/Autobiography; Premiership of Margaret Thatcher
December 12, 1993 Richard Reeves President Kennedy: Profile of Power Link John F. Kennedy
December 19, 1993 John Podhoretz Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993 Link Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of George H.W. Bush
December 26, 1993 Willard Sterne Randall Thomas Jefferson: A Life Link Thomas Jefferson

References

  1. ^ "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. 19 August 2004. 
  2. ^ Ellen Emry Heltzel (17 August 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian. 
  3. ^ Frank J. Prial (4 December 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/arts/television/04lamb.html. Retrieved 4 November 2010. 
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