Sorry for the short thread guys, I worked my ass off all day, and I'm agonna do it again to tomorrow before partying for 10-12 hours. I need my beauty rest. :evilgrin:
For details of each program, go to the link at the bottom of the schedule.
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C-SPAN2's Book TV: July 7-9
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum discusses her book Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation with Roger Wilkins, Professor Emeritus at George Mason University. Ms. Tatum argues that negative stereotyping of African American students compromises their ability to live up to their academic potential. She also argues against what she sees as a trend toward de facto resegregation of the nation's schools, brought about by segregated neighborhoods.
Weekend Highlights
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Gunter Grass and Norman Mailer interviewed and in conversation with Andrew O'Hagan
In a program entitled "The 20th Century on Trial" Nobel Prize winning novelist, Gunter Grass and Pulitzer Prize winning author Norman Mailer discuss their life and work with novelist Andrew O'Hagan. Gunter Grass has recently published his memoir, Peeling the Onion in which he divulges his participation in the Waffen SS at the age of seventeen. Norman Mailer recently penned his first novel in almost ten years, The Castle in the Forest which focuses on the childhood of Adolf Hitler.
(Sunday 7 PM ET)
Joan Quigley, The Day The Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
Joan Quigley documents the Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire that began in 1962 and still burns to this day. The source of the fire and the contention of its duration caused great argument and division in the mining town whose population thirty years ago was over 1,000 and today is all but deserted.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 11 PM ET)
Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Journalist Cullen Murphy argues that America today closely resembles the Roman Empire just before its collapse. Among the similarities Mr. Murphy sees: large, overburdened militaries; porous borders with many ethnicities sharing the same state; and a desire to remake the world. But, in his book Are We Rome?, Mr. Murphy also notes differences, such as America's stable democracy, strong economy and technological innovation.
(Saturday 8 PM, Sunday 10 AM ET)
Phil Kent, Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America
Phil Kent talks about the influence of liberal foundations in changing the culture of America. Mr. Kent argues that while many of these foundations started off with admirable goals, some of the biggest have since been hijacked by anti-capitalist, anti-American radicals who use these foundations to further their own political agendas.
(Sunday 10 PM ET)
Brink Lindsey, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
Brink Lindsey argues that post-World War II prosperity in the United States transformed American culture as increased wealth and improvements in everyday life allowed Americans to turn their attention to social matters, shattering traditional societal conventions. The resulting liberal counterculture, which in turn engendered a conservative backlash, Mr. Lindsey argues, is creating a libertarian consensus combining the social freedom of the left with the economic freedom of the right.
(Sunday 6 AM and 3 PM ET)
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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).
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Saturday, July 7, 2007
8:00 AM 1 hr Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore
Author: James Patterson
9:00 AM 2 hr, 59 min In Depth: Michael Barone
12:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min History
Bridging the Divide: My Life
Author: Edward Brooke
1:00 PM 49 min Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
Author: John Ghazvinian
1:50 PM 7 min 2007 BookExpo America: Walker & Company
Author: George Gibson
2:00 PM 52 min A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney
Author: Hugh Hewitt
2:50 PM 6 min 2007 BookExpo America: Larry Sabato
Author: Larry Sabato
3:00 PM 1 hr, 9 min Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
Author: Edward Humes
4:10 PM 1 hr, 33 min The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
Author: Michael Behe
5:45 PM 13 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Lorraine Schuyler "The Weight of Their Votes"
Author: Lorraine Schuyler
6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Mao: A Life
Author: Philip Short
7:00 PM 56 min History
The Day The Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
Author: Joan Quigley
7:55 PM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) (2:41)
Author: Rep. Don Manzullo
8:00 PM 1 hr Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Author: Cullen Murphy
9:00 PM 59 min After Words: Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of "Can We Talk about Race? and other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation" interviewed by Roger Wilkins
10:00 PM 30 min Taking on Tehran: Strategies for Confronting the Islamic Republic
Author: Ilan Berman
10:30 PM 1 hr, 6 min History
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Author: Arnold Rampersad
11:35 PM 21 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Ann Jones "Kabul in Winter"
Author: Ann Jones
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Sunday, July 8, 2007
12:00 AM 1 hr, 32 min History
A War Of Frontier And Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
Author: David Silbey
1:30 AM 23 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Pauline Chen "Final Exam"
Author: Pauline Chen
1:55 AM 5 min 2007 BookExpo America: David Maraniss
Author: David Maraniss
2:00 AM 1 hr, 47 min Escaping the Resource Curse
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
3:50 AM 10 min 2007 BookExpo America: Twelve
Author: Cary Goldstein
4:00 AM 44 min How to Raise an American: 1776 Fun and Easy Tools, Tips, and Activities to Help Your Child Love This Country
Author: Myrna Blyth
4:45 AM 1 hr, 14 min Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America's Schools
Author: Joel Westheimer
6:00 AM 1 hr, 16 min The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
Author: Brink Lindsey
7:15 AM 7 min 2007 BookExpo America: Yale University Press
Author: John Donatich
7:25 AM 5 min 2007 Washington Post Author Meet & Greet: Rajiv Chandrasekeran "Imperial Life in the Emerald City"
Author: Rajiv Chandrasekeran
7:30 AM 1 hr, 17 min PEN World Voices Festival Lecture (1:16:45)
Author: Grossman, David
8:45 AM 11 min 2007 BookExpo America: Rick Atkinson
Author: Rick Rick Atkinson
9:00 AM 51 min A Price Too High: The Judiciary in Jeopardy
Author: Charles Pickering
9:50 AM 7 min 2007 BookExpo America: Walker & Company
Author: George Gibson
10:00 AM 1 hr Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Author: Cullen Murphy
11:00 AM 59 min History
Passion And Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, The Couple Whose Power, Politics, And Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Sally Denton
12:00 PM 1 hr, 20 min Framing the Debate: Famous Presidential Speeches and How Progressives Can Use Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections)
Author: Jeffrey Feldman
1:20 PM 8 min Authors on Writing: David McCullough (7:57)
Author: David McCullough
1:30 PM 1 hr, 23 min History
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
Author: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
2:50 PM 6 min 2007 BookExpo America: Palgrave Macmillan
Author: Airie Stuart
3:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
Author: Brink Lindsey
4:15 PM 13 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Travis McDade "The Book Thief"
Author: Travis McDade
4:30 PM 1 hr, 18 min To Sir With Love
Author: E.R. Braithwaite
5:45 PM 11 min 2007 BookExpo America: Rick Atkinson
Author: Rick Rick Atkinson
6:00 PM 59 min After Words: Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of "Can We Talk about Race? and other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation" interviewed by Roger Wilkins
7:00 PM 1 hr, 58 min Public Lives
Gunter Grass and Norman Mailer interviewed and in conversation with Andrew O'Hagan
Authors: Gunter Grass; Norman Mailer; Andrew O'Hagan
9:00 PM 59 min After Words: Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of "Can We Talk about Race? and other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation" interviewed by Roger Wilkins
10:00 PM 41 min Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America
Author: Phil Kent
10:40 PM 17 min 2007 VA Festvial of the Book: Peter Onuf, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Peter Onuf
11:00 PM 56 min History
The Day The Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
Author: Joan Quigley
11:55 PM 4 min 2007 BookExpo America: HarperOne
Author: Mark Tauber
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Monday, July 9, 2007
12:00 AM 51 min A Price Too High: The Judiciary in Jeopardy
Author: Charles Pickering
1:00 AM 1 hr, 16 min Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources
Author: Norman Pearlstine
2:20 AM 9 min 2007 BookExpo America: WW Norton
Author: W. Drake McFeely
2:30 AM 35 min 2007 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair: Andrew Ferguson "Land of Lincoln"
Author: Andrew Ferguson
3:05 AM 24 min 2007 LA Times Festival of Books: Lucinda Franks "My Father's Secret War: A Memoir"
Author: Lucinda Franks
3:30 AM 1 hr, 12 min History
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, And Deadly Persistence Of The Product That Defined America
Author: Allan Brandt
4:40 AM 14 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Richard Labunski "James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights"
Author: Richard Labunski
4:55 AM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
Author: Rep. Shelley Berkley
5:00 AM 1 hr, 35 min Debate on Academic Freedom with David Horowitz, author of "Indoctrination U.," and Cary Nelson, President of the American Association of University Professors
6:35 AM 24 min 2007 LA Times Festival of Books: Max Boot "War Made New"
Author: Max Boot
7:00 AM 1 hr History
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise And Fall Of Generational Regimes
Author: Gerard Magliocca
http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx