Book TV Schedule: December 22nd - 26th (with Thom Hartmann!)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: December 22-26
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post media reporter and host of CNN's Reliable Sources, looks at the inner workings of network news organizations ABC, NBC, and CBS. He talks about how network news, and the role of its anchors, has changed over the years and shares behind-the-scenes stories of this high-pressure business. He maintains that despite competition from Internet and cable, network news still plays a leading role in chronicling major news events. Mr. Kurtz discusses his book with James Warren, managing editor for the Chicago Tribune.


Weekend Highlights - 4 Days of Book TV
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Join us for four days of Book TV programming this holiday weekend, beginning Saturday, December 22, at 8 AM ET and running through Wednesday, December 26, at 8 AM ET.

Gregory Rodriguez, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Gregory Rodriguez explores the history of Mexican Americans from the sixteenth century to the present. Mr. Rodriguez argues that the largest immigrant group in American history will impact the political future of the United States and change the way Americans think about race. The Houston Public Library hosted this event.
(Saturday 8 AM, Monday 8:30 AM ET)

Thom Hartmann, Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
Air America radio host Thom Hartmann presents a plan for how the left can compete with the right in presenting their political message to gain attention. He explores different methods of personal communication to assist in the debate. Mr. Hartmann discusses his book at the Strand bookstore in New York City.
(Sunday 12 PM and 10 PM ET)

Stacy Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Stacy Cordery profiles Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. Ms. Cordery relays that Alice Longworth was notorious for her flamboyant demeanor and sharp political mind. Commonly known as "the other Washington monument," Ms. Longworth embraced the role of advisor to her father and husband, Nicolas Longworth, Speaker of the House from 1925 to 1931. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was a central figure in Washington's political and social circles for eight decades.
(Sunday 12:45 PM, Monday 3 PM ET)

Donald Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
Donald Critchlow chronicles the history of the modern right over the last sixty years and describes how each time they have faced defeat they rebound stronger than before. He explores the battle for control of the Republican party as well as the battle between conservatives and liberals for control of the government.
(Sunday 8 PM ET)

Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
In this 2007 National Book Award nominee for nonfiction, historian Woody Holton contends that the Constitution was drafted by a group of elites who created a far more radical document than they intended. Mr. Holton discusses his book at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.
(Tuesday 3 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 22, 2007

8:00 AM 42 min Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Author: Gregory Rodriguez

9:00 AM 56 min The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's
Authors: Victor Davis Hanson; Heather Mac Donald; Steven Malanga

10:00 AM 1 hr, 31 min The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Author: Devra Davis

11:30 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
Author: William Langewiesche

12:45 PM 39 min History
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Author: Stacy Cordery

1:30 PM 48 min History
The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics
Author: Kim Long

2:30 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Author: Stephen Mihm

4:00 PM 1 hr Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Author: Ben Kiernan

5:00 PM 1 hr, 8 min History
In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson
Author: Nat, Yanna Brandt, Nat and Brandt, Yanna Kroyt

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Author: Frank McCourt

7:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror By Breaking Free of Oil
Author: Robert Zubrin

8:30 PM 28 min Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children
Author: David Harsanyi

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Howard Kurtz author of "Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War" interviewed by James Warren

10:00 PM 46 min Politics
Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders
Author: Christine Pelosi

11:00 PM 46 min The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Author: Ronald Kessler


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Sunday, December 23, 2007

12:00 AM 56 min Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Author: Jared Cohen

1:00 AM 44 min Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction
Author: James Stephenson

2:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
Author: Sasha Abramsky

3:00 AM 1 hr, 18 min AEI Bradley Lecture: Sam Tanenhaus on George W. Bush and the Future of Conservatism
Author: Sam Tanenhaus

4:30 AM 46 min Politics
Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders
Author: Christine Pelosi

5:15 AM 1 hr, 4 min The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker

6:30 AM 1 hr, 30 min History
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Author: Vincent Virga

8:00 AM 49 min Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
Author: Marjorie Cohn

9:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min History
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage
Author: Nicholas Wapshott

10:00 AM 1 hr, 24 min House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
Author: David Bellavia

11:30 AM 35 min Politics
The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits
Author: Diana Walker

12:00 PM 1 hr, 41 min Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
Author: Thom Hartmann

2:00 PM 1 hr, 11 min History
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Author: Thomas DeFrank

3:15 PM 46 min History
The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party
Author: Bruce Miroff

4:00 PM 1 hr, 23 min Panel Discussion- Can the American Mind be Opened?
Author: Allan Bloom

5:30 PM 23 min Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Author: Kayce Freed Jennings et al. (editors)

6:00 PM 58 min After Words: Howard Kurtz author of "Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War" interviewed by James Warren

7:00 PM 1 hr, 11 min For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton - The White House Years
Author: Sally Bedell Smith

8:00 PM 57 min Politics
The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
Author: Donald Critchlow

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Howard Kurtz author of "Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War" interviewed by James Warren

10:00 PM 1 hr, 41 min Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
Author: Thom Hartmann


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Monday, December 24, 2007

12:00 AM 58 min After Words: Howard Kurtz author of "Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War" interviewed by James Warren

1:00 AM 34 min Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
Author: Ben Mezrich

1:30 AM 42 min Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Author: Gregory Rodriguez

2:15 AM 1 hr, 11 min History
Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Author: Edward Renehan, Jr.

3:30 AM 1 hr, 11 min History
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Author: Thomas DeFrank

4:45 AM 1 hr, 7 min The Pentagon: A History
Author: Steve Vogel

6:00 AM 1 hr, 7 min A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life
Author: J. Craig Venter

7:05 AM 3 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Bob Deans, "The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James"
Author: Bob Deans

7:05 AM 3 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Betty Monkman, "The Living White House"
Author: Betty Monkman

7:15 AM 35 min Politics
The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits
Author: Diana Walker

7:45 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

7:50 AM 5 min 2007 National Press Club Book and Author Night David Andelman, "A Shattered Peace"
Author: David Andelman

8:00 AM 1 hr, 13 min History
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Author: Panel of Speakers

9:10 AM 13 min New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of 2007
Author: Sam Tanenhaus

9:30 AM 1 hr, 26 min History
The President's Table: Two Hundred Years of Dining and Diplomacy
Author: Barry Landau

11:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min History
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Authors: Richard Brookhiser; Joseph Ellis

12:00 PM 1 hr, 31 min An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Author: Randall Robinson

1:30 PM 1 hr, 13 min History
Troublesome Young Men
Author: Lynne Olson

2:40 PM 13 min New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of 2007
Author: Sam Tanenhaus

3:00 PM 39 min History
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Author: Stacy Cordery

3:45 PM 1 hr, 3 min The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Author: Jeffrey Toobin

4:45 PM 1 hr, 5 min History
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Author: Edward Larson

5:45 PM 6 min From Hope to Higher Ground
Author: Mike Huckabee

5:50 PM 3 min The Hill's Sixth Annual Political Book Fair: Rep. Steve Israel, "Charge!: History's Greatest Military Speeches"
Author: Steve Israel


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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

6:00 AM 1 hr, 30 min How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life
Authors: Gigi Anders; Marie Arana; Quique Aviles; Tom Miller; Ray Suarez

7:30 AM 1 hr, 31 min Debate on Dinesh D'Souza's "What's So Great About Christianity?"
Authors: Dinesh D'Souza; Christopher Hitchens; Marvin Olasky

9:00 AM 13 min New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of 2007
Author: Sam Tanenhaus

9:10 AM 9 min Book TV Bus - Mary Poole, "The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State"
Author: Mary Poole

9:20 AM 6 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Arthur Garson, "Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality"
Author: Arthur Garson, MD

9:30 AM 47 min 2007 National Book Festival: Ken Burns and Geoffrey Ward, "The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945"
Authors: Ken Burns; Geoffrey Ward

10:15 AM 5 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Ann Bausum, "Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism"
Author: Ann Bausum

10:20 AM 5 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, David Yount, "How the Quakers Invented America"
Author: David Yount

10:30 AM 54 min History
2007 National Book Festival: Korean War Veterans discuss David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War"
Authors: Lawrence Farnum; Charles Hayward; Ralph Hockley; Paul McGee; Richard Raybould; Daun Van Ee

11:20 AM 5 min 2007 National Press Club Book and Author Night Craig Crawford, "The Politics of Life"
Author: Craig Crawford

11:30 AM 1 hr, 25 min 2007 National Book Awards
Authors: Edwidge Danticat; Christopher Hitchens; Woody Holton; Arnold Rampersad; Tim Weiner

1:00 PM 44 min 2007 Texas Book Festival: Sherman Alexie: "Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Author: Sherman Alexie

1:45 PM 1 hr, 2 min Brother, I'm Dying - 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Author: Edwidge Danticat

2:45 PM 6 min From Hope to Higher Ground
Author: Mike Huckabee

2:50 PM 4 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Shannon Perich (Co-author), "The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family by Richard Avedon"
Author: Shannon Perich

3:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min History
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution - 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Author: Woody Holton

4:00 PM 32 min History
2007 National Book Festival: Arnold Rampersad, "Ralph Ellison: A Biography"
Author: Arnold Rampersad - 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

4:30 PM 1 hr, 12 min 2007 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Award: Andrew Roberts, author "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900"
Author: Andrew Roberts

5:40 PM 13 min New York Times Book Review's Notable Books of 2007
Author: Sam Tanenhaus


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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

6:00 AM 44 min 2007 Texas Book Festival: Sherman Alexie: "Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Author: Sherman Alexie

7:00 AM 1 hr, 9 min Memorial Tribute to Molly Ivins
Authors: Lou Dubose; Molly Ivins


http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx



John Singer Sargent

[marmar]

1. Merci beaucoup....

I was wondering when the Hartmann segment was to air.

[Kurovski]

2. First "R"

Gotcha, ya sneak!

:loveya: Are you wrapping Christmas presents today or something?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. does stuffing chocolate flavored items into stockings count?

if so, then yes. :)


:loveya:

[Kurovski]

4. Yes.

:kick:

[Kurovski]

5. A kick for Thom Hartmann.

:kick:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. kick!

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

[Judi Lynn]

7. Wonderful! So many days of holiday Book TV! Thanks for the great news. n/t

[Jim__]

8. 7:30 AM 1 hr, 31 min Debate on Dinesh D'Souza's "What's So Great About Christianity?"

Christmas morning. But I'll try to watch it any way. Thanks for posting the schedule!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Kick!

Carolyn Anderson

[Kurovski]

10. Kick. (nt)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. kick!

Delphin Enjolras

[Bozita]

12. kick

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. I don't know why, but I'm up at 6am Sunday morning kick!

:(

:P

Don't forget! Thom Hartmann at Noon and 10pm today. :)


Cassatt

[Kurovski]

14. So then I've got a date with Thom at 7:00.

Will I be on time?

Did I get the time zone thing right? :silly:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. perfect.

And since I managed to go back to sleep this morning, and missed the first airing... I'll be joining you. :)

[Hidden Stillness]

16. Thom Hartmann, "Cracking the Code"--Disappointing for Me

This was very disappointing; typical "framing" shit. Is there no variation at all among these people? The quickest way to turn a complex thinking mind, to absolute fixed mush, is to join the "framing consultant" cult, and here it is again.

The program started off with this arrogant "giver-of-facts" attitude, telling the audience that there are "two" kinds of people in the world, "we all want the same things" which turned out to be the crude old Freudian "pleasure/pain principle" categories, and pretending to have some "only I know" "authoritative" psychology of stories background that was very quick and slipshod, and always, always, all male--this is how "we" end up being "all the same," you kill all the other perspectives. Very simpleminded telling, (liberals, "people good/freedom," conservatives, "people bad/elites," etc.), and all from the horrific world of--yes, again--corporate advertising, their endlessly-impressed love, of TV commercials. There is absolutely no admission of a women's presepctive here, all is told from a male perspective arrogantly pretending to be all, and the stories show a very strange lack of even ordinary understanding of situations: a story of an angry goose, where the goose was obviously protecting a nest, took months or whatever it was, to "decipher"; a story of a woman-hating cigar-smoking male at an airport ended with Hartmann making a standard "you have a small penis" remark to the male, rather than addressing the issue of rudeness, selfishness and abuse of women--bizarre.

The treatment is the standard "I will give you the tools to communicate with" arrogrance that these "framing" types never understand is manipulative and annoying to people! There was a lot of standard "technical" jargon--"multi-modal," sometimes initials for supposed "psychological" states, etc.--and a very simpleminded, one-track treatment that makes you realize yet again, that the individual subject is going to be totally sacrificed to an "everything at once" attitude that the "superior" "framer" does not even have to bother to learn subjects, issues and debate, one by one, but instead can dive to the very ethereal depths of things and manipulate and control your very wellsprings of thought--all at once--and rule all. Glib; self-absorbed. This is always the failing, among many, of the "frame" elite: they do not recognize that the point is for all to live and achieve their separate ends; they think the point is for them to explain to you, and as usual, there were almost no questions other than submissive agreement from "fans" at the end. One question on the infuriating "reverence" for the criminal Ronald Reagan, by a woman, was cut off.

I could go on and on, but the subject is far too boring, and kills all actual learning, replacing it with a lazy, "I will just skip the details and control all from the wellsprings of thought" arrogance, that people are aware that you are doing and react negatively to, whether you know it or not. I almost expected a "When you are in the Midwest, throw in an occasional CORN reference"--and yes, it is that stupid and cut-off. With all the recent attention to the Ralph Nader documentary, etc., it reminded me again, what a truly eloquent and articulate person sounds like. Follow the courage, extremely well-read learning and understanding, and exciting, fast-paced talk of Ralph Nader, Joan Claybrook, Phil Donahue, and many others I have been hearing and thinking about again; that is the way to do it. "Framing" makes you sound like an annoying, manipulative asshole--don't think it doesn't. It relies on an attitude that "you are smart, they are stupid," and "you have to convince them, and even 'trick' them"--the one-track. Oh, and also, pay me.

The very first line of the first Fireside Chat, 1933, about Franklin Roosevelt's new banking reforms, to Federally insure banks so people would not lose all their savings when banks failed, began this way: "I want to tell you what has been done in the last few days, why it was done, and what the next steps are going to be." Roosevelt then explained how banking works, what the disaster is, and how it will now end--and it did, with the new reforms. This was one of the greatest explanations I ever heard about an issue and a situation, and it was not from corporate slogans or "superior" attitudes, but from a long and careful explanation to the people, and inclusion of them. Sorry to be offensive to those who like Thom Hartmann, but this is ignorance masking as "superior/secret knowledge," and a complete drop from a real reading of history and society, and eloquence, which is what we all really need.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. unfortunate

I was looking forward to it. :(

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. Big Kick!

:hi: Viva!

:hug: :loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. would you believe...?

Just this second I was showing FreedRadical the Holiday card you sent me and turning him on to your parodies!!? :wow:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

20. Kewlness!!

*doodoodoodo doodoodoodo*

Cue Rod Serling ;)

Howdy FreedRadical! Happy Krimble!

Pardon the slow reply, I'm watching Hogather on ION TeeVee :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. Kick!

Pierre Auguste Renoir

[EFerrari]

22. Randall Robinson on Haiti (Unbroken Agony)

has convinced me that we are the new Haiti of the global elite.

The story of Haiti is enough to break your heart -- and then you realize that everything Mr. Robinson is describing about economic slavery is happening here.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. off to dinner KICK!

MerryXmas :hug:

[EFerrari]

24. Merry Christmas, Vivala!

:hi:

[Kurovski]

25. A quick Merry Christmas kick!

Love and best wishes to the BookTVers, no matter what they're doing today! :loveya: An extra dose to Vivala The Mighty for her devotion to bringing the list to us every Friday. :hug:

And yet one more, just because she's so Vivaliscious. :hug:

[Bozita]

26. kick -- Hitchens is up again now