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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