Book TV Schedule - September 16th - 18th

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: September 16-18
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After Words
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM ET, Sunday 6 and 9 PM ET
In the book, The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy, author Joe Mathews describes a merger of direct democracy and Hollywood-style politics. He argues that Mr. Schwarzenegger has created a new kind of political machine that has implications beyond California.

He discusses his book with Rachel Smolkin, managing editor for the American Journalism Review.


Weekend Highlights
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Gay Talese, A Writer's Life
Talese recounts his over 50-year career as a journalist and non-fiction author.
(Saturday 2 PM ET)

Janis Kearney, Conversations: From Hope to Harlem
Kearney was the first official presidential diarist, recording President Clinton's daily life on the job from 1995 until he left office in 2001.
(Saturday 7 PM ET, Sunday 11:15 AM ET)

John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China Pomfret examines China's cultural and economic transformation from totalitarianism. (Saturday 7:45 PM ET, Sunday 10 AM ET)

Edward O. Wilson, Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006 Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biologist discusses his extensive research on ants and explains why he feels it is important to expose children to science at an early age.
(Sunday 4 PM and 11 PM ET)

Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
The author details how slavery impacted both the United States and Britain during the American Revolution. (Sunday 7 PM ET, Monday 5:45 AM ET)

W. Joseph Campbell, The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms The author describes changes in ethical standards and journalistic practices in 1897, and identifies conflicting journalism styles of three media giants: William Randolph Hearst, Adolph Ochs and Lincoln Steffens. (Sunday 1:15 PM and 10:00 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, September 16

8:00 am David Satcher & Rubens Pamies, Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities

9:45 Stephen Slivinski, Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government

11:00 Guenter Lewy, The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide

12:15 pm 2006 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Robert Rosen

1:00 Joel Turtel, Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children

2:00 Gay Talese, A Writer's Life

3:15 Bill Minutaglio, The President's Counselor: The Rise to Power of Alberto Gonzales

4:50 Geoffrey Nunberg, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into A Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show

6:00 Encore Booknotes: James Humes, Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and Other Political Adventures

7:00 Public Lives: Janis Kearney, "Conversations: From Hope to Harlem"

7:45 John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

9:00 After Words: After Words: Joe Mathews, author of "The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy" interviewed by Rachel Smolkin, managing editor for the American Journalism Review

10:00 Eric Boehlert, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush

11:00 Pat Buchanan, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America


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Sunday, September 17

12:00 am David Satcher & Rubens Pamies, Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities

2:00 Paul Hollander, ed., From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States

3:00 Guenter Lewy, The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide

4:15 Brian Latell, After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader

5:30 2006 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Robert Rosen

6:45 Harry Lewis, Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education

8:00 John Mosier, Cross of Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine, 1918-1945

10:00 John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

11:15 Janis Kearney, "Conversations: From Hope to Harlem"

12:00 pm William Cohen, Dragon Fire

1:15 W. Joseph Campbell, The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms

2:15 Gary Gallagher, Antietam National Battlefield Tour

3:00 After Words: Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," interviewed by James Zogby

4:00 General Assignment: Edward O. Wilson, Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006

5:15 2006 Printers Row: Louise Knight "Citizen" & Katherine Joslin "Jane Addams"

6:00 After Words: After Words: Joe Mathews, author of "The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy" interviewed by Rachel Smolkin, managing editor for the American Journalism Review

7:00 History on Book TV: Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

8:15 Gary Gallagher, Antietam National Battlefield Tour

9:00 After Words: After Words: Joe Mathews, author of "The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy" interviewed by Rachel Smolkin, managing editor for the American Journalism Review

10:00 W. Joseph Campbell, The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms

11:00 Edward O. Wilson, Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006


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Monday, September 18

12:05 am Charlayne Hunter-Gault, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance

1:00 Paul Offit, The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

2:30 Tom Zoellner, The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

3:30 Frederick Kagan, The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805

5:00 2006 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Fergus Bordewich

5:45 Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

7:00 Jan Goldman, Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional


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