Book TV Schedule: December 23rd - 26th

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: December 23-26
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Enjoy 3 Days of Book TV This Weekend
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Join us for three days of Book TV programming this holiday weekend, beginning Saturday, December 23, at 8 AM ET and running through Tuesday, December 26, at 8 AM ET.

Book TV will also offer extended programming next weekend - beginning Saturday, December 30, at 8 AM ET and running through Tuesday, January 2, at 8 AM ET.


After Words
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
In his book, The Few: The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain, author Alex Kershaw explores the story of the American pilots who defied their own country's neutrality laws and risked their citizenship in order to support the British in their battles with the German Luftwaffe. Mr. Kershaw discusses the book with World War II reporter Jack Pulwers.


Weekend Highlights
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Hal Vaughan, FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa
The author tells the story of 12 men appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt to be vice consuls to North Africa in 1940. These men, who Vaughan describes as amatuers, worked inside the French Vichy government to encourage resistence to Vichy and German rule in North Africa.
(Saturday 9 AM, Monday 1 AM ET)

Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Author Alice Walker discusses her latest collection of essays and speeches she has delivered over the years. Ms. Walker offers commentary on several themes, including simpler living, war resistance, meditation and feminism.
(Saturday 10 PM, Monday 7 PM ET)

Jim Bell, Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet
Jim Bell, an astronomy professor at Cornell University, is the lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover's Pancam color imaging system. He discusses the photographs of Mars featured in his book, taken by two exploration rovers named "Spirit" and "Opportunity".
(Sunday 1 AM, Monday 12:15 PM ET)

Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
In his book, Walter Benn Michaels argues that diversity offers a false vision of social justice and that affirmative action, diversity training and new corporate codes of conduct contribute to the neglect of America's growing economic divide.
(Sunday 9:30 AM ET)

Art Buchwald, Too Soon to Say Goodbye
Art Buchwald describes his experiences as a hospice patient and explores how people deal with illness and death. On February 7, 2006, Mr. Buchwald checked into a Washington, DC, hospice, expecting to live only three weeks before his kidneys failed. Five months later, he left hospice for his home in Martha s Vineyard.
(Sunday 11 AM and 5:30 PM, Monday 6:30 PM and 9 PM ET)

John Allen, Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dateline NBC's John Hockenberry and the author discuss Archbishop Tutu's role in the South African apartheid resistance, including the effect of his controversial call for international disinvestment in the apartheid economy and the challenges he faced while leading peaceful demonstrations throughout the country.
(Monday 9 AM, 11:30 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, December 23

8:00 am John Naisbitt, Mind Set!

9:00 Hal Vaughan, FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa

10:00 Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism

11:15 Gary Gallagher, Antietam National Battlefield Tour

12:00 pm Gun Control Debate with Arnold Grossman, "One Nation Under Guns" and David Kopel, "Gun Control and Gun Rights"

1:00 Edward Ericson, Jr., Daniel Mahoney, Stephan Solzhenitsyn, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings 1947-2005

1:55 2006 NPC: John Shaw "The Ambassador"

2:00 Michael Scharf and Gregory McNeal, Saddam on Trial: Understanding and Debating the Iraqi High Tribunal

3:30 Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights

4:45 2006 Miami Book Fair: Neal Gabler "Walt Disney"

5:00 Elizabeth Smith Brownstein, Lincoln's Other White House

5:50 2006 Great Read--Michelle Slatalla "The Town on Beaver Creek: The Story of a Lost Kentucy Community

6:00 Encore Booknotes: Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation

7:00 2006 Chicago Humanities Festival-Vietnam Writers

8:35 2006 Miami Book Fair: Lawrence Wright "The Looming Tower"

9:00 After Words: After Words: Alex Kershaw, author of "The Few: Battle of Britain" interviewed by Jack Pulwers

9:55 2006 NPC: Edwin Feulner "Getting America Right"

10:00 General Assignment: Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

11:00 Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

11:55 2006 NPC: Joshua Wolf Shenk "Lincoln's Melancholy"


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Sunday, December 24

12:00 am Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

1:00 Jim Bell, Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet

2:10 2006 Miami Book Fair: Charles Shields "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee"

2:30 Patrick O'Donnell, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

3:50 2006 NPC: W. Joseph Campbell "The Year that Defined American Journalism"

4:00 William Pelfrey, Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History

5:00 Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health

5:50 2006 NPC: Llewellyn King "Washington and the World"

6:00 Jeff Broadwater, George Mason: Forgotten Founder

7:00 Virginians in the White House: John Tyler & James Monroe

8:05 2006 NPC: "Medal of Honor"

8:15 Daniel Mendelsohn, Kati Marton, Rosemary Sullivan, 2006 Miami Book Fair: Holocaust Panel

9:30 Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

10:50 2006 NPC: Edwin Black "Internal Combustion"

11:00 Public Lives: Art Buchwald, Too Soon to Say Goodbye

11:25 2006 NPC: Joseph Callo "John Paul Jones"

11:30 Henry Louis Gates, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

12:40 pm 2006 Miami Book Fair: Philip Gourevitch on The Paris Review

1:00 Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

2:05 2006 NPC: John Sayle Watterson "The Games Presidents Play"

2:15 2006 Chicago Humanities Festival-Vietnam Writers

3:50 2006 NPC: "Medal of Honor"

4:00 2006 Chicago Humanities Festival-Laura Kipnis & Harvey Mansfield

5:05 2006 Miami Book Fair: Hank Klibanoff "The Race Beat"

5:30 Public Lives: Art Buchwald, Too Soon to Say Goodbye

5:55 BTV Bus Vign: Macon Co.(GA) Public Libraries Used Book Sale

6:00 After Words: After Words: Alex Kershaw, author of "The Few: Battle of Britain" interviewed by Jack Pulwers

6:55 2006 NPC: Carole Coleman "Alleluia America"

7:00 General Assignment: Donald Jackson, Artistic Director & Illuminator, The Saint John's Bible

7:55 2006 NPC: John Dickerson "On Her Trail"

8:00 : 2006 Miami Book Fair: Jonathan Franzen "The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History"

8:45 2006 Miami Book Fair: Neal Gabler "Walt Disney"

9:00 After Words: After Words: Alex Kershaw, author of "The Few: Battle of Britain" interviewed by Jack Pulwers

9:50 2006 Great Read--David Kamp, "The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation"

10:00 2006 Chicago Humanities Festival-Laura Kipnis & Harvey Mansfield

11:10 2006 AUSA - Maj. Seth Folsom "The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq "

11:30 Public Lives: John Wukovits, Eisenhower: A Biography


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Monday, December 25

12:40 am 2006 Texas Book Festival: Noah McCullough "The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia"

1:00 Hal Vaughan, FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa

2:00 John Naisbitt, Mind Set!

2:55 2006 NPC: Ann McFeaters "Sandra Day O'Connor"

3:00 Gordon Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

3:50 2006 Great Read--Denise Grady, "Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburg Fever to Avian Flu"

4:00 Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

4:55 2006 NPC: Judge Janice Law "Yield"

5:00 2006 AUSA - Daniel Gerstein "Leading at the Speed of Light: New Strategies for U.S. Security in the Information Age"

5:25 2006 NPC: Hal Vaughan "FDR's 12 Apostles"

5:30 General Assignment: Stephen Shames, photographer, The Black Panthers

7:45 2006 NPC: John Gresham "Defcon-2"

7:55 2006 NPC: Lanny Davis "Scandal"

8:00 Richard Williams, Jr., Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend

8:45 2006 Miami Book Fair: Neal Gabler "Walt Disney"

9:00 John Allen, Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu

9:55 2006 NPC: Karyn McLaughlin Frist "Love You, Daddy Boy"

10:00 General Assignment: Donald Jackson, Artistic Director & Illuminator, The Saint John's Bible

10:55 2006 Great Read--Cornell West, Author and Religion Professor on his reading habits and his current book projects

11:00 Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

12:10 pm 2006 NPC: John Shaw "The Ambassador"

12:15 General Assignment: Jim Bell, Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet

1:30 Inside the New York Times Book Review--Editor Sam Tanenhaus and Staff

2:30 Patrick O'Donnell, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

3:50 2006 Miami Book Fair: Katheryn Russell-Brown "Protecting Our Own"

4:00 Anthony Feinstein, Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War

5:00 Donald Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

6:30 Public Lives: Art Buchwald, Too Soon to Say Goodbye

7:00 General Assignment: Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

8:00 Michael Crichton, Next

9:00 Public Lives: Art Buchwald, Too Soon to Say Goodbye

9:30 Harlow Unger, The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life

10:30 Elizabeth Smith Brownstein, Lincoln's Other White House

11:20 2006 Texas Book Festival: David Oshinsky "Polio: An American Story"

11:30 John Allen, Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu


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Tuesday, December 26

12:25 am 2006 Great Read--David Kamp, "The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation"

12:30 American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton

1:45 2006 NPC: Edwin Black "Internal Combustion"

1:50 Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism

2:55 2006 NPC: Michael Isikoff and David Corn "Hubris"

3:00 William Pelfrey, Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History

4:00 Gary Gallagher, Antietam National Battlefield Tour

4:45 Edward Ericson, Jr., Daniel Mahoney, Stephan Solzhenitsyn, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings 1947-2005

5:35 2006 NPC: David Vise "The Google Story"

5:45 After Words: Larry Kahaner, author of "AK-47: The Weapon That Changed the Face of War," interviewed by Peter Singer

6:40 2006 NPC: Edwin Feulner "Getting America Right"

6:45 Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights


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