List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2001
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 |
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January 7, 2001 | Martin Goldsmith | The Inextinguishable Symphony | Jüdischer Kulturbund; Category:Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany |
January 14, 2001 | Dinesh D'Souza | The Virtue of Prosperity | Prosperity |
January 21, 2001 | Robert Scigliano | The Federalist Papers | The Federalist Papers |
January 28, 2001 | Arlen Specter | Passion for Truth | Single bullet theory; United States Senate
|
February 4, 2001 and February 11, 2001 | Kurt Eichenwald | The Informant: A True Story |
Archer Daniels Midland; Mark Whitacre
|
February 18, 2001 | Maurizio Viroli | Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli |
Niccolò Machiavelli |
February 25, 2001 | Bernard Weisberger | America Afire | 1800 United States presidential election |
March 4, 2001 | Dick Gregory | Callus on My Soul: A Memoir | Civil Rights Movement
|
March 11, 2001 | Jeffrey Meyers | Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation | George Orwell |
March 18, 2001 | Jason Epstein | Book Business: Publishing—Past, Present, and Future | Publishing |
March 25, 2001 | Reese Schonfeld | Me and Ted Against the World | History of CNN (1980–2003); Ted Turner
|
April 1, 2001 | Don Hewitt | Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television | Memoir/Autobiography; CBS News; 60 Minutes |
April 8, 2001 | William Cooper | Jefferson Davis, American | Jefferson Davis |
April 15, 2001 | Andrew Burstein | America's Jubilee | 1826 in the United States |
April 22, 2001 | Emily Bernard | Remember Me to Harlem | Harlem Renaissance; Carl Van Vechten; Langston Hughes |
April 29, 2001 | Kiron Skinner | Reagan In His Own Hand | Ronald Reagan |
May 6, 2001 | Susan Dunn and James MacGregor Burns | The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America | Theodore Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt |
May 13, 2001 | Robert Slayton | Empire Statesman: The Rise & Redemption of Al Smith | Al Smith |
May 20, 2001 | John Farrell | Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century | Tip O'Neill |
May 27, 2001 | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution |
Birmingham campaign; 16th Street Baptist Church bombing |
June 3, 2001 | Rick Perlstein | Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus | Barry Goldwater |
June 10, 2001 | Morton Kondracke | Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease | Parkinson's disease |
June 17, 2001 | Edward Said | Reflections on Exile and Other Essays | Essays; Literary criticism; Palestine
|
June 24, 2001 | Alma Guillermoprieto | Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America | Latin America |
July 1, 2001 | Daniel Schorr | Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
July 8, 2001 | Alan Ebenstein |
Friedrich Hayek: A Biography | Friedrich Hayek |
July 15, 2001 | Sally Satel | PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine | Political correctness; Medicine |
July 22, 2001 | Jeff Greenfield | Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History | 2000 United States presidential election |
July 29, 2001 | Jay Winik | April 1865: The Month That Saved America | Conclusion of the American Civil War |
August 5, 2001 | Tom Philpott | Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War | Floyd James Thompson |
August 12, 2001 | Roger Wilkins | Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism | George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; George Mason |
August 19, 2001 | Walter Berns | Making Patriots | American nationalism; Patriotism |
August 26, 2001 | Thomas Fleming |
The New Dealers' War | Franklin Roosevelt; Military history of the United States during World War II
|
September 2, 2001 | Herbert Bix |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | Shōwa period
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September 9, 2001 | Irvin Molotsky | The Flag, The Poet and The Song | Flag of the United States; The Star-Spangled Banner; Francis Scott Key |
September 16, 2001 (Open phones) |
Jeffrey Richelson |
Body of Secrets; The Wizards of Langley | The National Security Agency; United States Intelligence Community. (Note: This interview, the first one after the September 11 attacks , was aired live and featured viewer calls. It is also the only Booknotes to feature two different authors discussing their own separate books.)
|
September 23, 2001 (Open phones) |
John Steele Gordon | The Business of America | Economy of the United States; Economic history of the United States; Business. (Note: This interview, the second one after the September 11 attacks, was aired live and featured viewer calls.) |
September 30, 2001 | Hampton Sides | Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission |
Battle of Bataan; Raid at Cabanatuan |
October 7, 2001 | Midge Decter | An Old Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War | Memoir/Autobiography; History of women in the United States |
October 14, 2001 | Fran Grace | Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life | Carry Nation
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October 21, 2001 | Stephen Kinzer | Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds | Turkey |
October 28, 2001 | Ted Yeatman | Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend | James-Younger Gang
|
November 4, 2001 | Michael Eric Dyson | Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur | Tupac Shakur |
November 11, 2001 | Joseph Persico |
Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage | Franklin D. Roosevelt; Office of Strategic Services; Category:World War II espionage |
November 18, 2001 | Daniel Pink |
Free Agent Nation: How America’s New Independent Workers are Transforming the Way We Live | Employment; Multiple careers |
November 25, 2001 | Kirkpatrick Sale | The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream | Robert Fulton |
December 2, 2001 | Laura Claridge | Norman Rockwell: A Life | Norman Rockwell |
December 9, 2001 | Phyllis Lee Levin | Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House | Woodrow Wilson; Edith Wilson |
December 16, 2001 | Peter Bergen | Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden |
Osama bin Laden |
December 23, 2001 | Vernon Jordan | Vernon Can Read! A Memoir | Civil Rights Movement
|
December 30, 2001 | Bernard Lewis | What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response |
Muslim world |
References
- ^ "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. 19 August 2004.
- ^ Ellen Emry Heltzel (17 August 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian.
- ^ Frank J. Prial (4 December 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2010.