List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1999

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 3, 1999P.J. O'RourkeEat the RichCapitalism; Economy of Russia; Economy of Sweden; Economy of Tanzania; Economy of Hong Kong
January 10, 1999John MorrisGet the Picture: A Personal History of PhotojournalismMemoir/Autobiography; Photojournalism
January 17, 1999Dava SobelLongitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeHistory of longitude; John Harrison; Longitude prize
January 24, 1999Michael IgnatieffIsaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin
January 31, 1999Peter Kann and Frances FitzGeraldReporting VietnamThe Vietnam War
February 7, 1999Harold EvansThe American CenturyAmerican Century
February 14, 1999Virginia PostrelThe Future and Its EnemiesSocial change
February 21, 1999Annette Gordon-ReedThomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American ControversyThomas Jefferson; Sally Hemings
February 28, 1999Robert FamighettiThe World Almanac and Book of Facts 1999Reference work
March 7, 1999Tom BrokawThe Greatest GenerationMilitary history of the United States during World War II; United States home front during World War II; Great Depression in the United States
March 14, 1999Allen WeinsteinThe Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America The Stalin EraHistory of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States
March 21, 1999Richard ShenkmanPresidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things DonePresident of the United States
March 28, 1999Norman PodhoretzEx-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman MailerMemoir/Autobiography; Neo-Conservatives; Allen Ginsberg; Lionel and Diana Trilling; Lillian Hellman; Hannah Arendt; Norman Mailer
April 4, 1999Booknotes 10th AnniversaryN/AExcerpts from and interviews about the first ten years of Booknotes
April 11, 1999Amity ShlaesThe Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About ItTaxation in the United States
April 18, 1999Max FrankelThe Times of My Life and My Life with the TimesMemoir/Autobiography; The New York Times
April 25, 1999Randall KenanWalking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyAfrican Americans
May 2, 1999Mary SoamesWinston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the ChurchillsWinston Churchill; Clementine Churchill
May 9, 1999Betty Boyd CaroliThe Roosevelt WomenRoosevelt family; Eleanor Roosevelt; Edith Roosevelt; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Corinne Roosevelt Robinson; Corinne Alsop Cole; Sara Delano Roosevelt; Martha Bulloch Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt Cowles
May 16, 1999T.R. ReidConfucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the WestCulture of Japan
May 23, 1999Jean StrouseMorgan: American FinancierJ.P. Morgan
May 30, 1999Bill GertzBetrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American SecurityForeign policy of the Bill Clinton administration
June 6, 1999Roger MuddGreat Minds of HistoryHistoriography of the United States; Gordon Wood; James McPherson; Richard White; David McCullough; Stephen Ambrose
June 13, 1999Joseph Stevens1863: Rebirth of a Nation1863 in the United States
June 20, 1999David KennedyFreedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and WarHistory of the United States (1918–1945); Timeline of United States history (1930–1949)
June 27, 1999Jon MargolisThe Last Innocent Year: America in 19641964 in the United States
July 4, 1999Floyd FlakeThe Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps For Achieving Your DreamsMotivation
July 11, 1999Michael KordaAnother Life: A Memoir of Other PeopleMemoir/Autobiography; Simon & Schuster
July 18, 1999Michael CottmanThe Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African-American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's PastHenrietta Marie
July 25, 1999Dan RatherDeadlines & Datelines: Essays at the Turn of the CenturyMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
August 1, 1999Richard GephardtAn Even Better Place: America in the 21st CenturyMemoir/Autobiography; Economic issues in the United States
August 8, 1999H.W. CrockerRobert E. Lee on LeadershipRobert E. Lee; Leadership
August 15, 1999Elizabeth NormanWe Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the JapaneseAngels of Bataan
August 22, 1999David AtkinsonLeaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the EndSupreme Court of the United States
August 29, 1999Mark PendergrastUncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our WorldCoffee
September 5, 1999Leslie ChangBeyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women From the Middle Kingdom to Middle AmericaMemoir/Autobiography; Taipei First Girls' High School; Chinese Americans
September 12, 1999Jay PariniRobert Frost: A LifeRobert Frost
September 19, 1999Richard CohenRostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old PoliticsDan Rostenkowski
September 26, 1999Linda McMurryTo Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells
October 3, 1999James GlassmanDow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock MarketDow Jones Industrial Average; Economic growth
October 10, 1999Stuart RochesterHonor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973American POWs in the Vietnam War
October 17, 1999Witold RybczynskiA Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th CenturyFrederick Law Olmsted
October 24, 1999Michael KammenAmerican Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th CenturyPopular culture
October 31, 1999Patrick TylerGreat Wall: Six Presidents and China, An Investigative HistorySino-American relations
November 7, 1999Eugene RobinsonCoal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of RaceMemoir/Autobiography; Race in the United States; Race and ethnicity in Brazil
November 14, 1999Fred MaroonThe Nixon Years, 1969–1974: White House to WatergateRichard Nixon
November 21, 1999Alfred YoungThe Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American RevolutionGeorge Robert Twelves Hewes; The Boston Tea Party
November 28, 1999Winston ChurchillThe Great Republic: A History of AmericaThe United States of America; History of the United States
December 5, 1999Edmund MorrisDutch: A Memoir of Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan
December 12, 1999Michael Patrick MacDonaldAll Souls: A Family Story from SouthieBoston
December 19, 1999Robert ConquestReflections on a Ravaged CenturyNazism; History of communism
December 26, 1999Tom WheelerLeadership Lessons from the Civil WarThe American Civil War; Leadership

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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