List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1990

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)
AuthorBookSubject matter
January 7, 1990Sig MickelsonFrom Whistle Stop to Sound BiteMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
January 14, 1990John BarryThe Ambition and the PowerJim Wright; Newt Gingrich
January 21, 1990Fitzhugh GreenGeorge Bush: An Intimate PortraitGeorge H. W. Bush
January 28, 1990Charles FecherThe Diary of H.L. MenckenH.L. Mencken
February 4, 1990Jim MannBeijing Jeep: American Business in ChinaJeep Cherokee (XJ); Automobile industry in China; U.S.-China economic relations
February 11, 1990David BurnhamA Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRSthe Internal Revenue Service
February 18, 1990Peggy NoonanWhat I Saw at the RevolutionRonald Reagan; Reagan Administration
February 25, 1990Michael FumentoThe Myth of Heterosexual AIDSAIDS
February 27, 1990Hedley DonovanRight Places, Right TimesMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Time Magazine
March 4, 1990Richard BarnetThe Rockets' Red Glare: When America Goes to War—The Presidents and the PeopleMilitary history of the United States; Home front; United States home front during World War II
March 11, 1990Frederick KempeDivorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affairs with NoriegaManuel Noriega; United States invasion of Panama
March 18, 1990David HalevyInside the PLOThe Palestine Liberation Organization
March 25, 1990James AbourezkAdvise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. SenateMemoir/Autobiography; The United States Senate; South Dakota
April 1, 1990Fred GrahamHappy Talk: Confessions of a TV NewsmanMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
April 8, 1990Leonard SussmanPower, The Press and The Technology of FreedomHistory of the World Wide Web; Integrated Services Digital Network
April 15, 1990Helmut SchmidtMen and Powers: A Political RetrospectiveMemoir/Autobiography; West Germany
April 22, 1990Michael BaroneOur Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to ReaganHistory of the United States (1918–1945); History of the United States (1945–1964); History of the United States (1964–1980); History of the United States (1980–1991)
April 29, 1990Robert CaroMeans of AscentLyndon Johnson
May 6, 1990Morley SaferFlashbacks on Returning to VietnamMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Aftermath of the Vietnam War
May 13, 1990Brian Duffy and Steven EmersonThe Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie InvestigationPan Am Flight 103
May 20, 1990Allister SparksThe Mind of South AfricaSouth Africa
May 27, 1990Bette Bao LordLegacies: A Chinese MosaicMemoir/Autobiography; Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; Television in the People's Republic of China
June 3, 1990Dusko DoderGorbachev: Heretic in the KremlinMikhail Gorbachev
June 10, 1990Thomas SowellPreferential Policies: An International PerspectiveAffirmative action; Reverse discrimination
June 17, 1990Judith MillerOne, By One, By One: Facing the HolocaustAftermath of the Holocaust; Holocaust historiography; Holocaust commemoration
June 24, 1990Kevin PhillipsThe Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the Electorate in the Reagan AftermathReaganomics
July 1, 1990Chris OgdenMaggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in PowerMargaret Thatcher
July 8, 1990Denton WatsonLion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights LawsClarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
July 15, 1990Caspar WeinbergerFighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the PentagonMemoir/Autobiography; Reagan Administration; U.S. Department of Defense
July 22, 1990Teresa OdendahlCharity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic ElitePhilanthropy in the United States
July 29, 1990Michael ShapiroIn the Shadow of the Sun: A Korean Year of Love and SorrowMemoir/Autobiography; Economy of South Korea
August 5, 1990Dan Raviv and Yossi MelmanEvery Spy a PrinceIsraeli Intelligence Community
August 12, 1990Roger KimballTenured RadicalsModern liberalism in the United States; Higher education in the United States; Tenure
August 19, 1990Tad SzulcThen and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WWIIAftermath of World War II; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s
August 26, 1990Christopher WrenThe End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and ChinaCommunism; The Soviet Union; China
September 2, 1990Lee EdwardsMissionary for Freedom: The Life and Times of Walter JuddWalter Judd
September 9, 1990Robert DoleHistorical Almanac of the United States SenateHistory of the United States Senate
September 16, 1990M.A. FarberOutrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley HoaxTawana Brawley rape allegations
September 23, 1990Jannette DatesSplit Image: African Americans in the Mass MediaRepresentation of African-Americans in media
October 14, 1990Harold StassenEisenhower: Turning the World Toward PeaceDwight D. Eisenhower
October 21, 1990Tim WeinerBlank Check: The Pentagon's Black BudgetMilitary budget of the United States
October 28, 1990Pat ChoateAgents of Influence: How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic SystemLobbying in the United States; Japan – United States relations
November 4, 1990Paul TaylorSee How They Run: Electing a President in an Age of Mediaocracy1988 United States presidential election
November 11, 1990Blaine HardenAfrica: Dispatches From a Fragile ContinentAfrica
November 18, 1990Jean Edward SmithLucius D. Clay: An American LifeLucius D. Clay
November 25, 1990Martin MayerThe Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan IndustrySavings and loan crisis
December 2, 1990Cpt. Carol BarkalowIn the Men's HouseMemoir/Autobiography; Women in the military; United States Military Academy
December 9, 1990Sally Bedell SmithIn All His GloryWilliam S. Paley
December 16, 1990Shen TongAlmost a RevolutionTiananmen Square protests of 1989
December 23, 1990John Wallach and Janet WallachArafat: In the Eyes of the BeholderYasser Arafat
December 30, 1990Garry WillsUnder God: Religion and American PoliticsReligion and politics in the United States

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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