Book TV Schedule: November 3rd - 5th

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: November 3-5
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET
Join us for a conversation with author Vincent Bugliosi. Mr. Bugliosi was the lead prosecutor in the case against the Manson Family and successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony cases during his tenure as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office. He is the author of several books, including Helter Skelter, And the Sea Will Tell, Till Death Do Us Part, The Betrayal of America, and his most recent Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

You can join this three-hour conversation by e-mailing your question to
booktv@c-span.org or by calling in during the program: Democrats 202-737-0001, Republicans 202-737-0002, Independents 202-628-0205




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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
In The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hijacked by Crackpot Economics, Jonathan Chait argues that regardless of what political party is in power the United States economic policy stands to the far right. Mr. Chait, a senior editor at The New Republic, contends that economic policy for the past three decades has been ill-conceived and points to supply-side economics as an example of what he deems a flawed policy that is championed by few. Jonathan Chait is interviewed by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.



Weekend Highlights
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Studs Terkel, Touch and Go: A Memoir
Book TV visited the Chicago home of 95-year-old Studs Terkel to learn about his new memoir. Mr. Terkel discussed his early life, his career in television and radio, his political views, and his thoughts about aging and death.
(Saturday 12 PM and 7 PM, Monday 5:30 AM ET)

Reese Erlich, The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis
Reese Erlich argues that Iran does not present a threat to the U.S. and should not be attacked. He says that many of the people pushing for war with Iraq are doing so for reasons that have little to do with U.S. national security. Mr. Erlich spoke at Columbia University in New York City.
(Sunday 7:30 AM and 7 PM ET)

Mark Bowden, James Fallow, Christopher Hitchens, William Langewiesche, Robert Vare, The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly
Contributors to The Atlantic Monthly celebrate the 150th anniversary of the magazine with selected readings from an edited anthology. The participants include James Fallows, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Bowden, William Langewiesche, and Robert Vare.
(Saturday 10 PM, Monday 6:30 AM ET)

Tony Rafael, The Mexican Mafia
Tony Rafael discusses the growth of the Mexican Mafia, which started out as a prison gang and now wields a considerable amount of power in Los Angeles and other parts of the American Southwest. The talk was held at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles and hosted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
(Sunday 12 AM, 4:30 AM and 10:30 AM ET)




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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, November 3, 2007

8:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min 2007 Harlem Book Fair: Memoir and Remembrances
Authors: Dominic Carter; June Cross; Charles Rangel; Carla Ranger; Yvonne Thornton; Agyei Tyehimba

9:00 AM 1 hr, 23 min Panel Discussion- Can the American Mind be Opened?
Author: Allan Bloom

10:30 AM 1 hr, 5 min D. Michael Lindsay's "Faith in the halls of Power" and Hanna Rosin's "God's Harvard"
Authors: D. Michael Lindsay; Hanna Rosin

11:30 AM 28 min Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children
Author: David Harsanyi

12:00 PM 56 min Public Lives
Touch and Go: A Memoir
Author: Studs Terkel

1:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min History
Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
Author: John Ferling

2:30 PM 1 hr History
The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown
Author: Thomas Fleming

3:30 PM 1 hr, 5 min History
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Author: Edward Larson

4:45 PM 1 hr, 2 min History
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Author: Walter Russell Mead

6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes: Always a Reckoning & Other Poems
Author: Jimmy Carter

7:00 PM 56 min Public Lives
Touch and Go: A Memoir
Author: Studs Terkel

8:00 PM 1 hr, 8 min What's the Matter with California?
Author: Jack Cashill

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Jonathan Chait author of "The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hijacked by Crackpot Economics" interviewed by Grover Norquist

10:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min History
The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly
Authors: Mark Bowden; James Fallow; Christopher Hitchens; William Langewiesche; Robert Vare

11:15 PM 47 min Eagle Council - John Lott "Freedomnomics"
Author: John Lott


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Sunday, November 4, 2007

12:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Mexican Mafia
Author: Tony Rafael

1:30 AM 1 hr, 2 min Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Author: John Bowe

2:30 AM 1 hr, 8 min What's the Matter with California?
Author: Jack Cashill

3:45 AM 37 min Unbowed: A Memoir
Author: Wangari Maathai

4:30 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Mexican Mafia
Author: Tony Rafael

5:45 AM 1 hr, 47 min Escaping the Resource Curse
Author: Jeffrey Sachs

7:30 AM 1 hr, 10 min The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis
Author: Reese Erlich

8:45 AM 42 min Eagle Council - Tom Tancredo "In Mortal Danger"
Author: Tom Tancredo

9:30 AM 1 hr, 2 min Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Author: John Bowe

10:30 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Mexican Mafia
Author: Tony Rafael

12:00 PM 3 hr In Depth: Vincent Bugliosi
3:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min Panel Discussion- The Historical Context of Allan Bloom
Author: Allan Bloom

4:15 PM 1 hr, 15 min Panel Discussion- Are Certain Forms of 'Openness' Really Tantamount to Intellectuality and Morality
Author: Allan Bloom

5:30 PM 30 min State of the Print Book Review
Authors: John Freeman; Elizabeth Taylor; David Ulin; Julia Wallace; Jim Warren; Steve Wasserman

6:00 PM 57 min After Words: Jonathan Chait author of "The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hijacked by Crackpot Economics" interviewed by Grover Norquist

7:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis
Author: Reese Erlich

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Jonathan Chait author of "The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hijacked by Crackpot Economics" interviewed by Grover Norquist

10:00 PM 1 hr, 23 min Panel Discussion- Can the American Mind be Opened?
Author: Allan Bloom


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Monday, November 5, 2007

12:00 AM 3 hr In Depth: Vincent Bugliosi

3:00 AM 57 min After Words: Jonathan Chait author of "The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hijacked by Crackpot Economics" interviewed by Grover Norquist

4:00 AM 1 hr, 31 min Debate on Dinesh D'Souza's "What's So Great About Christianity?"
Authors: Dinesh D'Souza; Christopher Hitchens; Marvin Olasky

5:30 AM 56 min Public Lives
Touch and Go: A Memoir
Author: Studs Terkel

6:30 AM 1 hr, 6 min History
The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly
Authors: Mark Bowden; James Fallow; Christopher Hitchens; William Langewiesche; Robert Vare


http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx



1867

Recommended.

I look for this every Friday night!

K&R

lol

I used to listen to his show on WFMT in Chicago for many, many years. I started when I was a kid. I was crazy about the arts, and he had the best in the world on his show.

I was part of a play reading at an event where he was being honored. An anti-nuke dealy.

I also hustled him for money for a theater company, :-) actually to donate a lunch with him, to be auctioned off as a fundraiser.

He was retired from his radio show at the time, and said "Naaaaaaaaahhh, I don't do that anymore."

He was writing some very strong anti-Bush LTTE in the Tribune for a while. They were terrific. I've got them in my files somewhere. He may still, I don't read the Trib much anymore. They should have just offered him a bi-weekly column. It would have put a glow on that rag. (just kidding, not a rag) They actually ran dearly departed Molly Ivin's columns. Hoo! You should have seen the LTTE the Trib got over the things she'd say! :rofl:

Well anyway...yakyakyak. :-) K&R

:wow:

Non-sexually. ;-)

It was over the phone. I was sweating bullets.

As you know, I'm very shy.

Once I asked Richie Havens to stfu so I could hear Doug on the monitor. And, once I told Robin Williams that he should do something with his humor.

One Richie Havens and one Robin Williams don't even come close to a Studs Terkel. lol

;-)

Did Richie even notice?

I often wonder if I didn't see Robin Williams when I visited SF in 1977. Was he already famous then?

There was a guy on Fisherman's Wharf in a box made to look like a juke box, and he'd take requests doing riffs on the requested tune. Whoever he was, he was amazingly good. I still remember it, 126 years later.

I also remember thinking "I could 'do' this guy, no prob." :evilgrin:

and they were chatting and when, in my newly wed excess, I asked them to pipe down, they did. They were very sweet.

I don't know about Robin's dates. That might actually have been Doug and you would have been right. :evilgrin:

I wish now that I'd lugged a camera around. If I had a picture, we'd know for sure.

So then, he worked the Wharf?

Is that where he met you? Workin' the wharf? :evilgrin:

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

But, alas, I missed the whole deal. I was in Silicon Valley impersonating a married lady.

lol

I'm not kidding about this. One of Doug's things was being a human jukebox. He knows the lyrics to everything and can hold most tunes with a handle. The dates match, too.

If he ever speaks to me again, I'll ask. :evilgrin:

Son of a bitch. What a funny world this is.

I actually still have the ticket stub that would tell me the exact date. But I have no idea where it would be. The month was October.

But of course, it's bad times for asking about little matters.:-(

I'd cross dress and pull my tummy in to try to catch that train. :)

You've been holding out on us. :rofl:

A little bit of freedom in every bottle!

So good in fact, that I'm inspired to go and see what potables I myself might find in the kitchen...

GWB told us that freedom comes at a high price. He knows. Have you checked the prices of Canadian beer lately?

I found some Pinot Grigio in the ice box. I'm on my way to being so very happy. I'd even smile at dick Cheney right now.

It doesn't take musch for me.

And freedom doesn't come cheap. Our president told us that.

Maybe if Mr. Pinot was bought out by Phizer and Mr. Grigio was bought out by Merck, things would change.

But for now, "Nazdrowie"

Free markets forever!

It's from Caleeforneeya, or however that Nazi dude says it.

Freedom from the collapsing dollar.

Freedom from outsourcing.

Freedom from unwinnable wars.

Freedom from Bushco.

Too bad it only lasts for a little while.

And oh boy, but I could add to the list. I wager we all could.

It's a good thing.

And freedom from wiretapping without a court order.

And freedom from tracing your internet activities without a court order?

And the freedom to wiretap any and every political opponent. With no way to check it out. Unless somebody turns.

I gotta go get another can of freedom.

and I'm off to work. :cry:

:hi:

Did he mention me? :rofl:

I'll have to catch it the next time they put it up. Or maybe they'll offer it at the website.

Guess what? I remembered last night that I hustled Gore Vidal! Over the phone, too. And, as you know, I'm very shy.

:rofl:

How can someone forget hustling Gore Vidal?

You know, I just want you to remember that trust is the foundation of a good relationship. :D

Maybe "forgetting" is the wrong term. Maybe "suppressing" is more accurate. :blush:

:rofl:

I had a crush on Mr. Vidal when I was young. I had a crush on EVERY public figure who was "out", Elton, Tennessee, whoever! There were so few, I figured that these were my choices.

So sad. :rofl:

:)

Come on people, posting this thread cuts into Vivala's valuable partying-time with younger men.

Gratitude is a fair trade for sacrifice. :-)

maybe we could get a good flamefest going. :shrug:

Did you hear what she did at the last meet-up? Oh! Land sakes, I never in my life heard of such outrageous behavior in public in all my born days!

:rofl:

Sheez...well, I think that a surprise romance is in the offing with the arresting officer who cuffed her, if my connection can be trusted.

There's still the matter of the court date and I'd suggest a trip to the public clinic. ( Just so she'll be on the safe side.)

they'd just been pried out of that poor car and smelling of liquor and radishes?

It's good the drug charges were dropped and that whole thing about dry cleaning in a public place.

children don't properly appreciate the fact that their mother is a successful public nuisance.

There's some things we just have to learn on our own.

Oh yes.

But years later--and I say, isn't it the God's truth--it's always, "oh, mother if we only knew that your doing an impression of Janis Joplin at three in the morning in the middle of a major expressway was the defining moment of our youth, we'd have expressed more appreciation for that fact at that time."

Edit. But seriously, she is at a meet-up right? I'm suddenly kind of worried by her absence.

Meet up, schmeet up. This is plain old infidelity.

I'm going to bed. In the morning, I'm just going to pretend none of this happened.

:kick:

Maybe tommorow I'll tell you about the time I spent seven hours in an elevator with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner.

gotta work today. :(

Don't let Kurovski spread his untruths!

EDIT: Never mind. I just re-read the thread.

:rofl:

(Aunt) Mabus said I should.

:)

I will tell her. I'm easily bribed. Just don't tell anyone that I recommend for food.

:)

She's got it going on.

And welcome to DU! :hi:

or she won't feed me. Or let me watch television at her house. Or use the internet.

Good to be here. I'm still learning my way around.

Viva Huey!

Edit: Hey, I'm a Taurus too. Tell Aunt Mabus to be sure to kick this thread tomorrow or there'll be no Al Gore presidency for her.

Whew! Got that one in.

:hi:

I've got four nieces and six other nephews but simpleone is the only one that lives here in town. He's one of my oldest sister's two sons and we're very happy to have him here. My husband has all girls and having him around is like having a son. They sit and talk for hours on politics, poker and sports. He's been a big help with my step-daughter and us. She's bipolar with psychotic episodes and he spends a lot of time talking to her and tutoring her on the computer.

We live (sort of) on his way from campus to down town so he drops by when he's in the neighborhood. Last night he dropped by on his way to meet some friends. Today he dropped by to watch football, do laundry and otherwise have me wait on him hand and foot. Once in a while he drops by to get help with his homework. As you may be able to tell, we're a close-knit family. He fits right in with our friends and our friends really like him. (Whenever we get invited to a party they ask if he can come.) He's also got evlbstrd's seal of approval. They've met a few times and hit off.

I had to take him back out to campus a while ago. He's one of the basketball team's managers and they have a game tonight. He bought a video camera a while back and he's been taping everything from marches to the ghost hunts he and his friends organize. I'm trying to get him to upload some of his politically oriented videos (like the Haskell Indian Nations University Columbus Day rally and march) on youtube but he's still thinking about it.

Here's to family. :toast:

Go Gore! :hug:

I'm lucky he's a part of mine. And I'm pretty lucky that so many DU'ers are too. Thank you for the wonderful welcome you gave him. He thought it was pretty cool.

Gore is my man. So is Dean.

Speaking of my men, mine just got home from a sweat lodge. He's tuckered out and just said he wants some attention.

See you around, Mabus. :hi:

:)

He's already impossible to be around. ;)

:)

k & r

None of my teachers ever sounded like that or I'd have shot my self. That's what happens to you when you read Bloom.

Another great book to buy! This C-SPAN conversation, taped this October, was very wide-ranging, enthralling, and consisted of the living reality of Studs Terkel's lifelong theme of teaching the history of America and the 20th Century to the young, and those who would never know or understand that there was ever once a different way, a way other than the present of corporate commercial control. The 20th century seems so distant to the young, Terkel was saying, because we have denied it to them, we do not teach it--and accurately and excitingly, as it was--and talked about the dangers of not knowing how things were, how we were as a Nation, especially during Studs Terkel's favorite time, the New Deal era, when many things were solved; and James Baldwin was quoted: "There IS no present, without the past." The other great theme of this talk, the new book, and Terkel's whole life, is the idea that, "You Count!" You matter, the great general population is the greatness of America and everywhere else; it is the Tom Joad/"Grapes of Wrath" love of the people, and a determination that they be heard, they they exist, that they be remembered.

The best part of the program, as always, were the stories of a long memory of a long life in the world. There was a tribute of stories about Franklin Roosevelt's great Vice-President, Henry Wallace, who created many of the New Deal programs, among them the Civilian Conservation Corps, the C.C.C. The way Wallace had each of them run was a reflection of their larger attitude toward "your Government"; "This is yours, you have a right to run this place. You run it, you make the laws." The great populist/anti-corporate, but unfortunately remembered William Jennings Bryan was correctly remembered here. Bryan fought the teaching of eveolution, and was reduced to a spectacle at the Scopes Monkey Trial at Dayton, Tenn., 1925--which Terkel remembered--but other than that, was an odd blend, of Christian literalist, champion of labor and the poor, and a kind of early feminist, the same way Teddy Roosevelt was. Terkel quoted part of Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic convention, then forgot the rest. It was, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," referring both to the general condition of oppression and to the then-raging controversy about converting to the Gold standard as a basis for the stability of the dollar. (The exclusive male term was used then.)

There were many stories told, remembering many, many great people, from the pioneer of birth control and feminism, Margaret Sanger--also very admired by Katharine Hepburn's parents; the fighter for the poor and creator of Hull House, Jane Addams, and Terkel's own parents and family. At one point, the origin of the title, "Touch + Go," was explained; it is a line from "Under Milkwood," by Dylan Thomas. There was a discussion on Studs Terkel's 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Good War," about WWII, and the art of oral history and storytelling, with a little description of Terkel's famous feigned ignorance about technology--the tape recorder--to put ordinary people, who had maybe never been asked their opinion before, at ease. Studs Terkel was one of the people on the blacklist of the 1950s, both for radical/liberal opinions that a couple of decades before, were Federal policy, and also apparently for a friendship with the also radical/liberal Billie Holliday, the great singer (and songs such as "Strange Fruit," about lynching, etc.). There were several really brave--for both Terkel and Terkel's wife, although I don't know if she was on a list separately--encounters, fighting back against FBI investigators in their home, described here.

They talked about politics today, on this program, the current election campaign, with Terkel really supporting Al Gore--because Gore "was elected President to begin with"--and then Barack Obama; decidedly not sypporting the secretive and corporate Hillary Clinton. Terkel still keeps up to date with reading and talking about politics, and is reading several books currently, for example Karenna Gore Schiff, Mark Twain, and a book about Margaret Sanger. There was a little part of a discussion about the increasing poverty of several once-middle-class neighborhoods of Chicago, and local concerns about trying to stop the blight and unemployment. This led to a story of a Buckminster Fuller speech at a local Hispanic church, where people were very interested, asked many questions about buying and caring for homes, and the spreading blight. This reinforced yet again, the arrogant attitude about "stupid poor people who do not want to learn," and what a lie it is.

Terkel's favorite era was the Roosevelt/New Deal era, "the Great Depression, and the way it was handled; joblessness, and what it does to you," etc., and the whole span of time, from Al Capone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929--which Terkel also remembers--to the '50s and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the "Studs' Place" TV talk show, which now I think is in the Chicago Historical Society archives, Chicago newspaper writers such as Mike Royko, other interests such as the Cubs, on and on. Wonderful to listen to, and to read, and important, to be free. Terkal gave an epitaph, which may actually be used: "Learn to Say No, and Be Curious." Although expressing many regrets for life, as we all have, things I said and should not have, things I did not say--I think it was expressed--the real atmosphere of the talk was of Studs Terkel's love and respect for people, for America, the real Democratic Party, time, history, and--as expressed many times--women and feminism. What a wonderful human being.

People have to get, to learn, to read, the real story of history, Government, their own country, the way things are dealt with, who people really were--who was really bad, and who was really good--before it is too late, and they are nothing but a muddle of visuals, corporate propaganda, and sales pitches increasing selfishness, trivia and greed. Just to take a random, unrelated memory of my own late parents: my parents hated that prick Richard Nixon going all the way back to the 1940s, for what Nixon did to Helen Gahagan Douglass ("Pinko"), and Jerry Voorheis, two of the dirty bastard's earliest, and greatest, campaign victims. Where would you ever read or hear that from the corporate media today? There may yet come a time when, unless we fight this with knowledge, kids of a not-so-distant future generation will tell you how "everyone loved Ronald Reagan, and how happy they all were when the tax cuts for rich people saved their economy"--WHEN NO SUCH THING EVER HAPPENED!

Glad to see that Studs is for Gore.

btw, I love the way you write! :hi:

So glad I clicked on this. I'll have to set the DVR up for the last show on Monday morning! :bounce:

Must see! Good, current information on what BushCo is doing to Iran and how.

7:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis
Author: Reese Erlich

random baby reading book

Random House?

I took this one specially to show (off to) you guys. :)

:loveya:

If we could vote it up, that would be great.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2203654

:kick:

The Mexican Mafia
Author: Tony Rafael

He gives the background of stories coming out of California about the race war between Blacks and Hispanics and the reasons why it is not getting media attention.

He says, no one wants to provoke a "race war" by revealing the actions targeting Blacks in California. Well, if everything that he says is true, the Mexican mafia IS conducting ethic cleansing to further their goals.