Book TV Schedule: March 1st - 3rd

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: March 1-3
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET
Author and linguist John McWhorter will be our guest this month on In Depth. Mr. McWhorter is currently a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and has taught at University of California - Berkeley and Cornell University. His books include: Authentically Black; Losing the Race: Self- Sabotage in Black America; Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America; The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language; Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music in America and Why We Should, Like, Care; Defining Creole; and Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars. You can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program: Republicans 202-737-0001, Democrats 202-737-0002, Independents 202-628- 0205 or by e-mailing your questions to [email protected].



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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM,
Monday 12 AM and 3 AM ET
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston contends that government policies and spending benefit the few, wealthiest Americans at the expense of the middle class and the poor. In his third book, Free Lunch, Mr. Johnston presents examples to support his claims on topics including healthcare, education, business, and the tax system. David Cay Johnston discusses his book with Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.


Weekend Highlights
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William F. Buckley, Miles Gone By: A Literary Biography
William F. Buckley passed away on February 27, 2008. He was a guest on WBZ - AM's David Brudnoy Show in July to talk about his book Miles Gone By: A Literary Biography. The book is a collection of essays gathered from Mr. Buckley's fifty-year career as a writer. The author talked about a variety of subjects, from his childhood with nine siblings and his life as a family man, to his first New York Times bestseller and his founding of the conservative magazine National Review. Mr. Buckey's In Depth appearance from 2000 is also available to watch online at booktv.org. (Saturday 9 AM and 11 PM ET)

Binka Le Breton, The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang
Binka Le Breton talks about the life of Sister Dorothy Stang, a Christian missionary who worked to protect poor farmers from land developers in the Amazon region of Brazil. Her work led to her being killed in early 2005. Binka Le Breton spoke at an event at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC.
(Saturday 8 AM, Sunday 5 AM ET)

Jack Shaheen, Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11
Jack Shaheen talks about the portrayal of Muslim Arabs in American movies and argues that this portrayal, largely negative, has shaped the way Americans view Arabs and U.S. policies towards Arab countries. He spoke at Emory University in Atlanta.
(Saturday 12 PM, Sunday 7 AM ET)




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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

8:00 AM 55 min The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang
Author: Binka Le Breton

9:00 AM 52 min Public Lives
Miles Gone By: A Literary Biography
Author: Jr., William F. Buckley

10:00 AM 49 min Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
Author: Taylor Clark

11:00 AM 1 hr, 1 min Politics
Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist
Authors: Ruth Corman; David Rubinger

12:00 PM 58 min Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11
Author: Jack Shaheen

1:00 PM 1 hr, 7 min The Pentagon: A History
Author: Steve Vogel

2:15 PM 57 min History
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
Authors: Paul Kendrick; Stephen Kendrick

3:15 PM 44 min History
I've Got A Home In Glory Land: A Lost Tale of The Underground Railroad
Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost

4:00 PM 1 hr, 30 min History
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Author: Vincent Virga

5:30 PM 27 min History
Diane Ackerman, "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story"
Author: Diane Ackerman

6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes: Peter Jennings "The Century"
Author: Peter Jennings

7:00 PM 1 hr, 36 min History
African American National Biography
Authors: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

9:00 PM 59 min Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation
Author: Charles Barber

10:00 PM 58 min After Words: David Cay Johnston, author of "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill)," interviewed by Maya MacGuineas


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Sunday, March 2, 2008

12:00 AM 57 min History
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
Authors: Paul Kendrick; Stephen Kendrick

1:00 AM 1 hr, 9 min Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark
Author: Geoffrey Stone

2:00 AM 1 hr, 36 min History
African American National Biography
Authors: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

3:45 AM 1 hr, 14 min Dissent: Voices of Conscience
Author: Ann Wright

5:00 AM 55 min The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang
Author: Binka Le Breton

6:00 AM 1 hr, 1 min Politics
Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist
Authors: Ruth Corman; David Rubinger

7:00 AM 58 min Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11
Author: Jack Shaheen

8:00 AM 47 min Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
Author: Ashley Gilbertson

9:00 AM 1 hr, 8 min The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News
Author: Peter Gomes

10:00 AM 52 min Politics
Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism
Author: Alfred Regnery

12:00 PM 3 hr In Depth: John McWhorter

3:00 PM 1 hr, 14 min Dissent: Voices of Conscience
Author: Ann Wright

4:15 PM 45 min 2007 Miami Book Fair International: Ralph Nader, "The Seventeen Traditions"
Author: Ralph Nader

6:00 PM 58 min After Words: David Cay Johnston, author of "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill)," interviewed by Maya MacGuineas

7:00 PM 52 min Politics
Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism
Author: Alfred Regnery

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: David Cay Johnston, author of "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill)," interviewed by Maya MacGuineas

10:00 PM 1 hr, 26 min Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Marc Sageman

11:30 PM 35 min Public Lives
From the Barrio to Washington: An Educator's Journey
Author: Armando Rodriguez


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Monday, March 3, 2008

12:00 AM 3 hr In Depth: John McWhorter

3:00 AM 58 min After Words: David Cay Johnston, author of "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill)," interviewed by Maya MacGuineas

4:00 AM 1 hr, 26 min Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Marc Sageman

5:30 AM 1 hr, 36 min History
African American National Biography
Authors: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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

[EFerrari]

1. Thanks, Viva!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. ...

:hug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11 on now kick!

Jack Shaheen talks about the portrayal of Muslim Arabs in American movies and argues that this portrayal, largely negative, has shaped the way Americans view Arabs and U.S. policies towards Arab countries. He spoke at Emory University in Atlanta.

Jack Shaheen is professor emeritus of mass communication at Southern Illinois University and a former consultant on the Middle East for CBS News. He is the author of several books, including "Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood vilifies a People," which was made into a documentary.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations on now Kick!

The author worked for eight years with the staff of the Library of Congress to create this book on the history of maps and how they reveal civilizations. John Hebert', Chief of the Geography and Maps division and Ronald Grim, retired curator of the Maps Division contributed to the book and joined the author for a presentation at the Library of Congress. Following the talk, take an exclusive look inside the "treasures vault" of the Library of Congress Geography and Map division to examine and learn more about their holdings and some of the maps included in the book.

Vincent Virga is a photography editor who has contributed to over 150 books. He has written three novels and is the co-author of "Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States."


Dutch - 1618

[Joanne98]

5. Sounds cool. I'm off to watch it. k&r

[EFerrari]

18. Damn! I missed this! Will it run again? n/t

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Kick!

Thank you Viva!!! :hi: :hug: :loveya:

[TacticalPeek]

7. K&R

Thanks!

:kick:

[Kurovski]

8. K&R

So THERE you are, Missy V! :loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. yes, a little late.

I spent yesterday evening in an intimate conversation with a few slow whiskeys. There was much to discuss.

[Bozita]

9. K&R

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. kick!

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Don't miss Ann Wright!!

[EFerrari]

15. I love that woman. Wish I knew her.

She's so smart and clear. We're lucky in her. :)

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. She was in SF in January

She is a good friend of Cindy so I am sure she will be back.

I adore her. You bet we are lucky to have her voice.

[EFerrari]

17. I've been on a time out since December or so and not much good

to anyone or anything. Maybe the rest was just needed. Hopefully, back in the saddle later this month. There's so much going on here. Shirley is trying to make her weekly actions in front of Nancy's offices into a full blown street fair and etc.

Maybe it was a good thing to rest up before the flat out run later on this year. lol

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Nudda Kick!!

[EFerrari]

14. Kick!

[Kurovski]

19. Kick.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

20. And, one more.

:kick:

[Kurovski]

22. And just one more itty-bitty one for the road...

:kick:

:hi: :hug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. Free Lunch on now KICK!

[Bozita]

23. David Cay Johnston is mandatory viewing.

Love his columns in the NYT too.

[EFerrari]

24. Marc Sageman on "Leaderless Jihad" was fascinating.

I could have listened to him for another hour.

[Hidden Stillness]

25. "Electing FDR," Donald Ritchie; "Free Lunch," David Cay Johnston

C-SPAN played these programs back-to-back on Sunday night, and they were both great; as a matter of fact, I will probably buy both books.

The first one, "Electing FDR," by the associate historian of the Senate, Donald Ritchie, is a really interesting and very well-researched account of what I consider the most important election of the 20th century, the campaign of 1932. This was a highly entertaining program and the author was a great speaker to listen to, with a knowledgeable audience here. What made it so interesting to listen to, was that the book relies heavily on contemporanious sources--newspapers, radio broadcasts, private papers, etc.--which gave real information and the actual opinions of people at the time, unlike the typical, lazy "revisionist" crap which will not do the work of research. The author describes very well how Roosevelt was not the front-runner for most of the campaign, how Primaries actually contributed very little at the time, and the decision was made (as it always was then) by roll call votes at the convention, how the radio carried the whole convention and was listened to by millions, the development and formulation of the "new deal" phrase, the devastation of the Depression and how Roosevelt inspired crowds who listened to campaign speeches, and Hoover was just oblivious to their suffering and problems, etc. The main interest of the book was that it does not rely on current opinion "claiming" that this or that happened, but on original, contemporaneous sources, and so had an objective telling to it that was refreshing to listen to. There was a true telling of how great Roosevelt ended up being, after at first being considered a lightweight.

This was follwed by David Cay Johnston with a new book called "Free Lunch," an expose of the way corporations and capitalists have totally highjacked the general fund of taxes, from the common good and the standard of living for all of society, to tax scams, subsidies, diversions of money, payment shifts, and on and on, to only themselves. This is a familiar topic, but Johnston has done--again, as with "Perfectly Legal"--so much research on this, that it gives a whole treatment of the topic. There were parts of the discussion on subsidies for commercial sports stadiums, when public parks get nothing; programs that seem to be for the good of middle class homeowners, etc., but that are actually scams benefitting the rich, who really get the bulk of the tax credit; chain stores that get subsidies that individual, local stores never get, to the detriment of all; etc.

The thing about both books that made them so impressive was that both are completely reliant on research, telling the story from the material. This gave real depth and intelligence to them both, and made each worth reading.