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C-SPAN2's Book TV: July 28-30
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
In The Real All Americans, Sally Jenkins recounts the history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School; a boarding school for Native Americans founded by abolitionist Lieutenant Colonel Richard Henry Pratt in 1879. The school, based in Carlisle Pennsylvania, became noted for its football team, whose squads transformed the game. Sally Jenkins discusses her book with Suzan Harjo, Executive Director of the Native American cultural advocacy organization, The Morning Star Institute.
Weekend Highlights
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Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
In 1986 former criminal prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi was hired by a British television network to participate in a 21-hour trial of Lee Harvey Oswald. The program included most key witnesses and a Dallas, Texas, jury. Since then, Mr. Bugliosi has been researching and writing his 1,600 page (not including over 1000 pages of endnotes and source notes on CDROM) defense of the Warren Commission finding that Oswald and Oswald alone killed President Kennedy. In his book and in this lecture at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, he challenges popular conspiracy theories, dismissing many of them as "silly."
(Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 2:15 PM ET)
Jed Babbin, In the Words of Our Enemies
In this examination of information gathered during his time with the George H.W. Bush administration as deputy undersecretary of defense, Mr. Babbin argues that the United States has repeatedly ignored the warnings of terrorists and opposing countries. In the Words of Our Enemies details some of the threats recieved from before 9/11 to today and discusses how ignoring these threats led to 9/11 and leaves us vulnerable for future attacks.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 3:30 PM ET)
Ed Offley, Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion
Ed Offley explores the sinking of the U.S.S. Scorpion, a submarine that was reported missing on May 27, 1968. The sub and its crew were due to arrive in Norfolk, Virginia, but never returned to port. The search that followed was the largest U.S. naval operation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The author contends that the government hid the truth behind the subs disapperance; an attack by the Soviets that Mr. Offley argues may have lead to war. Ed Offley discusses his book at Prince Books in Norfolk, Virginia.
(Saturday 8 PM, Sunday 12 PM ET)
Stephen Hayes, Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Stephen Hayes talks to radio host Jim Bohannon about Mr. Hayes's new biography of Vice President Dick Cheney. In preparing the book, Mr. Hayes was given special access to the vice president, his family and his friends. The author is a senior writer for the Weekly Standard.
(Sunday 11 AM, Sunday 7 PM, Monday 5 AM ET)
James Reston, Jr., The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
James Reston, Jr. recounts the televised interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon that took place in 1977, three years after President Nixon's resignation. Conducted over 12 days and including 28 hours of taped materials, the author contends that President Nixon believed that the interview would clear his name. However, the outcome was a further indictment of the former President after being viewed by 50 million people worldwide. James Reston, Jr. was David Frost's Watergate advisor for the interview.
(Sunday 10 AM ET)
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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
8:00 AM 1 hr, 35 min History
Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President
Author: Jill Norgren
9:35 AM 24 min 2007 LA Times Festival of Books: Max Boot "War Made New"
Author: Max Boot
10:00 AM 53 min History
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
Author: James McPherson
10:50 AM 6 min 2007 Washington Post Author Meet & Greet: David Ignatius "Body of Lies" (5:02)
Author: David Ignatius
11:00 AM 55 min History
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
Author: James McPherson
11:55 AM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL)
Author: Rep. John Shimkus
12:00 PM 1 hr, 4 min 2007 Best of the Best From the University Presses
1:05 PM 9 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: Google Book Search Interview
Author: Ben Bunnell
1:15 PM 1 hr, 10 min The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future
Author: Martha Nussbaum
2:25 PM 4 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) (3:32)
Author: Rep. Michele Bachmann
2:30 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
Savage Peace: 1919 - Hope And Fear In America
Author: Ann Hagedorn
3:40 PM 12 min 2007 BookExpo America: Michael Korda
Author: Michael Korda
3:50 PM 7 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: Capstone Press Interview
Author: Valorie Klemz
4:00 PM 49 min History
Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream And The Mexican War, 1846-1848 (48:27)
Author: Joseph Wheelan
4:50 PM 9 min 2007 BookExpo America: Wordsmiths Project
Author: Sally Wiener Grotta
5:00 PM 48 min The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War
Author: Dan Gilgoff
5:50 PM 10 min 2007 BookExpo America: PublicAffairs
Author: Susan Weinberg
6:00 PM 56 min Encore Booknotes
See How They Run: Electing a President in an Age of Mediaocracy
Author: Paul Taylor
7:40 PM 12 min 2007 BookExpo America: Michael Korda
Author: Michael Korda
8:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min History
Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon - The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion
Author: Ed Offley
9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Sally Jenkins, author of "The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed A Game, A People, A Nation" interviewed by Suzan Harjo
10:00 PM 1 hr, 11 min Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Author: Vincent Bugliosi
11:10 PM 12 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: David Armitage, "The Declaration of Independence: A Global History"
Author: David Armitage
11:30 PM 1 hr, 2 min Public Lives
Fallen Founder: The Life Of Aaron Burr
Author: Nancy Isenberg
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
12:30 AM 11 min 2007 BookExpo America: Scott Ritter, "Waging Peace"
Author: Scott Ritter
12:45 AM 1 hr, 9 min The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Author: Johan Van Overtveldt
1:55 AM 4 min 2007 BookExpo America: Encounter Books
Author: Lauren Powers
2:00 AM 56 min History
The Day The Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
Author: Joan Quigley
2:55 AM 4 min 2007 BookExpo America: Encounter Books
Author: Lauren Powers
3:00 AM 1 hr, 55 min Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions
Author: John Agresto
4:55 AM 4 min 2007 BookExpo America: HarperOne
Author: Mark Tauber
5:00 AM 57 min Camelia: Save Yourself By Telling the Truth
Author: Camelia Entekhabifard
6:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min History
The Price of Liberty: Paying For America's Wars (01:01:29)
Author: Robert Hormats
7:00 AM 58 min 2007 BookExpo America: Bestselling Books and American Culture (58:00)
Author: Heath, John and Lisa Adams
8:00 AM 1 hr, 20 min History
A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
Author: Dan Kurzman
9:20 AM 9 min 2007 BookExpo America: Union Square Press
Author: Philip Turner
9:30 AM 26 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
Author: Elizabeth Kantor
10:00 AM 57 min History
The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
Author: James Reston, Jr.
11:00 AM 52 min Public Lives
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Author: Stephen Hayes
12:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min History
Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon - The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion
Author: Ed Offley
1:05 PM 15 min 2007 BookExpo America: Regnery
Author: Marjory Ross
1:20 PM 10 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: William Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854 - 1861
Author: William Freehling
1:30 PM 37 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
Author: Robert Murphy
2:05 PM 6 min 2007 BookExpo America: Sylvain Cypel
Author: Sylvain Cypel
2:15 PM 1 hr, 11 min Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Author: Vincent Bugliosi
3:30 PM 40 min In the Words of Our Enemies
Author: Jed Babbin
4:10 PM 20 min 2007 LA Times Festival of Books: Debby Applegate "The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (19:28)
Author: Debby Applegate
4:30 PM 1 hr, 28 min The Cult of the Amateur: How the Democratization of the Digital World Is Assaulting Our Economy, Our Culture, and Our Values
Author: Andrew Keen
6:00 PM 58 min After Words: Sally Jenkins, author of "The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed A Game, A People, A Nation" interviewed by Suzan Harjo
7:00 PM 52 min Public Lives
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Author: Stephen Hayes
8:00 PM 55 min Garrison Keillor on His Life in Libraries
Author: Garrison Keillor
9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Sally Jenkins, author of "The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed A Game, A People, A Nation" interviewed by Suzan Harjo
10:00 PM 1 hr, 58 min Public Lives
Gunter Grass and Norman Mailer interviewed and in conversation with Andrew O'Hagan
Authors: Gunter Grass; Norman Mailer; Andrew O'Hagan
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Monday, July 30, 2007
12:00 AM 37 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
Author: Robert Murphy
12:35 AM 7 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: Capstone Press Interview
Author: Valorie Klemz
12:45 AM 1 hr, 6 min American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
Author: Sasha Abramsky
1:50 AM 8 min 2007 BookExpo America: Basic Books
Author: John Sherer
2:00 AM 1 hr, 33 min The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
Author: Michael Behe
3:30 AM 11 min 2007 BookExpo America: Rick Atkinson
Author: Rick Rick Atkinson
3:45 AM 1 hr, 6 min History
Freedom's Power: The True Force Of Liberalism (1:05:35)
Author: Paul Starr
4:50 AM 8 min 2007 BookExpo America: Basic Books
Author: John Sherer
5:00 AM 52 min Public Lives
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Author: Stephen Hayes
6:00 AM 1 hr, 32 min Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
Author: Kenneth Pyle
7:50 AM 6 min 2007 BookExpo America: Sylvain Cypel
Author: Sylvain Cypel
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