List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1996

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video) 		Author Book Subject matter
January 7, 1996Colin PowellMy American JourneyMemoir/Autobiography; The United States Army
January 14, 1996William ProchnauOnce Upon a Distant WarThe Vietnam War
January 21, 1996Michael KinsleyBig BabiesPopulism
January 28, 1996Carlo D'EstePatton: A Genius for WarGeorge Patton
February 4, 1996Dennis PragerThink a Second TimeEssays; Journalism
February 11, 1996Lance BanningThe Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal RepublicJames Madison
February 18, 1996Dan Balz and Ronald BrownsteinStorming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican RevivalThe Republican Revolution
February 25, 1996H. W. BrandsThe Reckless Decade: America in the 1890sCategory:1890s in the United States
March 3, 1996Hillary ClintonIt Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach UsAmerican family structure
March 10, 1996Johanna NeumanLights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?International relations
March 17, 1996Clarence PageShowing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and IdentityEssays; Race in the United States
March 24, 1996Robert W. MerryTaking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American CenturyJoseph Alsop; Stewart Alsop
March 31, 1996Fox ButterfieldAll God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceWillie Bosket; Category:Violence in the United States
April 7, 1996Jean BakerThe Stevensons: A Biography of an American FamilyStevenson family
April 14, 1996Wayne FieldsUnion of Words: A History of Presidential EloquenceCategory:United States presidential speeches
April 21, 1996Robert KaplanThe Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st CenturyEconomic inequality; World distribution of wealth
April 28, 1996David ReynoldsWalt Whitman's America: A Cultural BiographyWalt Whitman
May 5, 1996David Broder and Haynes JohnsonThe System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking PointPolitics of the United States; Clinton health care plan of 1993
May 12, 1996Stanley CrouchThe All-American Skin Game, or the Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of it, 1990-1994Essays; Race in the United States
May 19, 1996Michael SandelDemocracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public PhilosophyPolitical philosophy
May 26, 1996Noa Ben Artzi-PelossofIn the Name of Sorrow and HopeYitzhak Rabin
June 2, 1996James Thomas FlexnerMaverick's Progress: An AutobiographyMemoir/Autobiography; Historians; George Washington
June 9, 1996Christopher MatthewsKennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar AmericaJohn F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon
June 16, 1996Albert MurrayBlue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic StatementJazz; Creativity in art; Aesthetics and the philosophy of art
June 23, 1996Seymour Martin LipsetAmerican Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged SwordAmerican exceptionalism
June 30, 1996Glenn SimpsonDirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American PoliticsCategory:Political corruption in the United States
July 7, 1996Paul GreenbergNo Surprises: Two Decades of Clinton WatchingBill Clinton
July 14, 1996Ted SorensenWhy I Am a DemocratMemoir/Autobiography; Democratic Party (United States)
July 21, 1996Eleanor RandolphWaking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New RussiaRussia
July 28, 1996James LardnerCrusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David DurkDavid Durk; The New York Police Department
August 4, 1996Denis BrianEinstein: A LifeAlbert Einstein
August 25, 1996Eleanor Clift and Tom BrazaitisWar Without Bloodshed: The Art of PoliticsNewt Gingrich; Stanley Greenberg; Frank Luntz; Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Sheila Burke; Maxine Waters
September 1, 1996Drew Gilpin FaustMothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil WarConfederate States of America; History of women in the United States
September 8, 1996Donald WarrenRadio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate RadioCharles Coughlin
September 15, 1996Lloyd KramerLafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of RevolutionsMarquis de Lafayette
September 22, 1996Michael ElliottThe Day Before Yesterday: Reconsidering America's Past, Rediscovering the PresentNostalgia; Category:1940s in the United States; Category:1950s in the United States
September 29, 1996Monica CrowleyNixon off the Record: His Commentary on People and PoliticsRichard Nixon
October 13, 1996Louise BarnettTouched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong CusterGeorge Armstrong Custer
October 20, 1996David FriedmanHidden Order: The Economics of Everyday LifeEconomics
October 27, 1996Paul HendricksonThe Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost WarRobert McNamara; The Vietnam War
November 3, 1996Andrew FergusonFools' Names, Fools' FacesEssays; Politics of the United States
November 10, 1996Leon DashRosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban AmericaPoverty in the United States
November 17, 1996Conor Cruise O'BrienThe Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800Thomas Jefferson; The French Revolution
November 24, 1996Mikhail GorbachevMemoirsMemoir/Autobiography; The Soviet Union
December 1, 1996Robert BorkSlouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American DeclineNew Left
December 8, 1996Nell Irvin PainterSojourner Truth: A Life, A SymbolSojourner Truth
December 15, 1996President Bill ClintonBetween Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st CenturyMemoir/Autobiography; The President of the United States
December 22, 1996David DenbyGreat Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western WorldWestern canon; Homer; Rousseau; Virginia Woolf
December 29, 1996Stanley WolpertNehru: A Tryst with DestinyJawaharlal Nehru

References

  1. ↑ "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. 19 August 2004.
  2. ↑ Ellen Emry Heltzel (17 August 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian.
  3. ↑ Frank J. Prial (4 December 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
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