Book Discussion on [Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right]
Ms. Coulter discussed her new book [Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right], published by Random House. In it, she argues that American political debate has become increasingly hostile, and she...
View ArticleBook Discussion on [When Hollywood Had a King]
Ms. Bruck talked about her book, [When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence], published by Random House. The book traces Wasserman's life from...
View ArticleReading Lolita in Tehran
This is a event and includes the following programs: Book Discussion on [Reading Lolita in Tehran]No Subject
View ArticleHawthorne: A Life
This is a event and includes the following programs: Book Discussion on [Hawthorne: A Life]Encore Booknotes: Brenda Wineapple "Hawthorne: A Life"
View ArticleBook Discussion on [The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni]
Ms. Giovanni talked about her book [The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998], published by William Morrow. The book compiles her first seven volumes of poetry with an introduction, chronology...
View ArticleBook Discussion on [Deadlines Past]
Mr. Mears was interviewed about his book, [Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story], published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. The author covered eleven presidential...
View ArticleBook Discussion on [The Exception to the Rulers]
Ms. Goodman talks about her book, [The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them], published by Hyperion.
View ArticlePosterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Ch
This is a event and includes the following programs: Book Discussion on [Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children]Encore Booknotes: Dorie McCullough Lawson "Posterity"
View ArticleBook Discussion on [Will in the World: Shakespeare]
Mr. Greenblatt talked about his book [Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare], published by W.W. Norton and Company. He described England during Shakespeare's time and discussed how the...
View ArticleBook Discussion on [Why Read?]
Professor Edmundson talks about his book [Why Read?], published by Bloomsbury USA. The book is on the relationship between a liberal arts education and literature. The author writes that literature...
View ArticleBowling Alone
This is a event and includes the following programs: Book Discussion on [Bowling Alone]Encore Booknotes: Robert Putnam "Bowling Alone"
View ArticleBook Discussion on [The Poet and the Murderer]
Mr. Worrall talked about his book [The Poet and the Murderer: The True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery], published by E.P. Dutton. In it, he tells the story of Mark Hoffman, a literary...
View ArticleBook Discussion on [Public and Private]
Diana Walker talked about her book [Public and Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the Presidency], published by National Geographic. She was the [Time] magazine White House photographer from Jimmy...
View ArticleBook Discussion on [Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word]
Professor Kennedy talked about his book, [Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word], published by Pantheon Books. The book traces the word "nigger," to identify how it has been used and by...
View ArticleBook Discussion on [Reading Lolita in Tehran]
Ms. Nafisi talked about her book [Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books], published by Random House. Professor Nafisi resigned from her job as a professor of English literature at a university in...
View Article[Reporting Vietnam]
Frances FitzGerald and Peter Kann, editors of the book [Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism], talked about their experiences as reporters in the Vietnam War. Part one, 1959-69, covers combat-front...
View ArticleEx-Friends
This is a event and includes the following programs: [Ex-Friends]Encore Booknotes: Norman Podhoretz "Ex-Friends"
View Article[The Times of My Life]
Max Frankel talked about his book, [The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times]. The book recounts the 45 years that Frankel spent at the [New York Times] and his numerous assignments from foreign...
View ArticleBooknotes 10th Anniversary
In a commemoration of the first ten years of C-SPAN's [Booknotes] program, clips of past programs were shown and C-SPAN staff members were interviewed about how the program is created. Several issues...
View Article[Great Minds of History]
[American Heritage's Great Minds of History], published by John Wiley and Sons, contains the transcripts of the History Channel's television series of the same name. In the documentary series, Roger...
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