List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1995

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 1, 1995Doris Kearns GoodwinNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Home Front in World War IIFranklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; United States home front during World War II
January 8, 1995Robert WrightThe Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are -- The New Science of Evolutionary PsychologyEvolutionary Psychology
January 15, 1995Anthony Cave BrownTreason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the CenturySt. John Philby; Kim Philby; The Cambridge Five
January 22, 1995Marvin OlaskyThe Tragedy of American CompassionCriticism of The War on Poverty
January 29, 1995Steven WaldmanThe Bill: How the Adventures of Clinton's National Service Bill Reveal What Is Corrupt, Comic, Cynical, and Noble about WashingtonCorporation for National and Community Service
February 5, 1995M. Stanton EvansThe Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American TraditionPolitical freedom; Economic freedom
February 12, 1995Philip HowardThe Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating AmericaIndividual and group rights
February 19, 1995Jimmy CarterAlways a Reckoning and Other PoemsPoetry
February 26, 1995Alan RyanIntroduction to Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville; Democracy in America
March 5, 1995Lynn SherrFailure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own WordsSusan B. Anthony
March 12, 1995Donald KaganOn the Origins of WarWar
March 19, 1995Neil BaldwinEdison: Inventing the CenturyThomas Edison
March 26, 1995James LoewenLies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got WrongTextbooks; Eurocentrism
April 2, 1995Gertrude HimmelfarbThe De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern ValuesVictorian morality
April 9, 1995Stanley GreenbergMiddle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American MajorityAmerican middle class
April 16, 1995Alvin Toffler and Heidi TofflerCreating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third WaveThe Third Wave (Toffler book); Post-industrial society
April 23, 1995
(Pt. 1 and Pt. 2)
Robert McNamaraIn Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of VietnamThe Vietnam War
April 30, 1995Michael KlareRogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign PolicyForeign Policy of the United States
May 7, 1995David MaranissFirst in His Class: A Biography of Bill ClintonBill Clinton
May 14, 1995Tim Penny and Major GarrettCommon CentsPolitics of the United States; Federal government of the United States
May 21, 1995Linn WashingtonBlack Judges on JusticeCategory:African-American judges; Robert N. C. Nix, Jr.
May 28, 1995John NivenSalmon P. Chase: A BiographySalmon P. Chase
June 4, 1995Hanan AshrawiThis Side of PeaceMemoir/Autobiography; Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
June 11, 1995Peter BrimelowAlien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration DisasterImmigration to the United States
June 18, 1995Yuri ShvetsWashington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in AmericaThe KGB; History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States
June 25, 1995Norman MailerOswald's Tale: An American MysteryLee Harvey Oswald
July 2, 1995Ari HoogenboomRutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & PresidentRutherford B. Hayes
July 9, 1995DeWayne WickhamWoodholme: A Black Man's Story of Growing Up AloneMemoir/Autobiography; African Americans
July 16, 1995Armstrong WilliamsBeyond Blame: How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency BarrierBlame; Affirmative action in the United States
July 23, 1995Newt GingrichTo Renew AmericaUnited States history; Conservatism in the United States
July 30, 1995John HockenberryMoving Violations: A Memoir—War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of IndependenceMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Physical disability
August 6, 1995Marc FisherAfter the Wall: Germany, The Germans, and the Burdens of HistoryGermany; The Berlin Wall
August 13, 1995Robert D. Richardson, Jr.Emerson: The Mind on FireRalph Waldo Emerson
August 20, 1995Cartha "Deke" DeLoachHoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted LieutenantJ. Edgar Hoover; The Federal Bureau of Investigation
August 27, 1995Robert TimbergThe Nightingale's SongJohn McCain; Bud McFarlane; Oliver North; John Poindexter; Jim Webb; The U.S. Naval Academy; The Vietnam War; The Iran-Contra Affair
September 3, 1995Robert LeckieOkinawa: The Last Battle of World War IIThe Battle of Okinawa
September 10, 1995Emory ThomasRobert E. Lee: A BiographyRobert E. Lee
September 17, 1995Elsa WalshDivided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished WomenMeredith Vieira; Rachael Worby; Alison Estabrook
September 24, 1995Irving KristolNeoconservatism: The Autobiography of an IdeaNeoconservatism
October 1, 1995Andrew SullivanVirtually Normal: An Argument About HomosexualityHomosexuality
October 8, 1995Susan EisenhowerBreaking Free: A Memoir of LoveMemoir/Autobiography; Roald Sagdeev
October 15, 1995Nicholas BasbanesA Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for BooksBibliomania; Bibliophilia
October 22, 1995David FromkinIn The Time of Americans: The Generation that Changed America's Role in the WorldHistory of U.S. foreign policy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower; George Marshall; Douglas MacArthur
October 29, 1995Ben BradleeA Good Life: Newspapering and Other AdventuresThe Washington Post
November 5, 1995Marlin FitzwaterCall the Briefing! Bush and Reagan, Sam and Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the PressMemoir/Autobiography; White House Press Secretary; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; Category:Presidency of George H. W. Bush
November 12, 1995Pierre SalingerP.S., A MemoirMemoir/Autobiography; White House Press Secretary; Kennedy Administration
November 19, 1995bell hooksKilling Rage: Ending RacismRacism in the United States
November 26, 1995Sanford UngarFresh Blood: The New American ImmigrantsImmigration to the United States
December 3, 1995James BakerThe Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992Memoir/Autobiography; United States Secretary of State; George H.W. Bush
December 10, 1995David BrinkleyA MemoirMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism
December 17, 1995Evan ThomasThe Very Best Men: Four Who Dared—The Early Years of the CIAThe Central Intelligence Agency
December 24, 1995David Herbert DonaldLincolnAbraham Lincoln
December 31, 1995Charles KuraltCharles Kuralt's AmericaThe United States of America; CBS News Sunday Morning

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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