Book TV Schedule: January 5th - 7th

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: January 5-7
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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 Nell Irvin Painter who is the author of six books, including Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1618 to the Present and Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol. From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Painter was head of Princeton's Program in African American Studies and was an American history professor there for sixteen years before retiring in 2005.

You can join this three-hour conversation by e-mailing your question to
booktv@c-span.org or by calling in during the program:
East/Central Time Zone 202-585-3890, Mountain/Pacific Time Zone 202-585-3891.



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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi contends that following the attacks of September 11 the U.S. psychological reaction was defined by the assignment of regressive gender roles. In The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, Ms. Faludi argues that the American cultural and political landscape became imbued with exaggerated images of brave men and dependent women. Ms. Faludi discusses her book with Marie Arana, editor of the Washington Post's Book World.


Weekend Highlights
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Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Journalists Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank discuss their book which explores the lesser-known relationship that the North had with slavery during the 1800s, incuding the dependency on slavery to establish many well-known companies and educational institutions. The author documents how slavery helped in the creation of places like Tiffany & Co., Brown University, and Lehman Brothers financial institution.
(Saturday 5 PM, Sunday 4:30 AM ET)

Jerrold Post, The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda
Jerrold Post, founding director of the CIA's Center for Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior, analyzes the collective thinking of terrorist groups that range from Al Qaeda to the Shining Path. Mr. Post presents his book at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 10:45 AM, Monday 6 AM ET)

Strobe Talbot, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
Strobe Talbot, former Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001) recounts the development of nation- states and the progression to a global nation (i.e. The League of Nations and the U.N.). Mr. Talbot argues against the unilateral foreign policy of the Bush administration and proposes that the United States take the lead in multilateral global politics in the future.
(Saturday 8 PM, Sunday 5:30 AM and 4 PM ET)

Vincent Virga, Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Vincent Virga worked for eight years with the staff of the Library of Congress to create this book on the history of maps and how they reveal civilizations. John Hebert, Chief of the Geography and Maps division and Ronald Grim, retired curator of the Maps division contributed to the book and joined the author for a presentation at the Library of Congress. Following the talk, take an exclusive look inside the "treasures vault" of the Library of Congress Geography and Map division to examine and learn more about their holdings and some of the maps included in the book.
(Sunday 10 PM, Monday 4 AM ET)



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

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Saturday, January 5, 2008

8:00 AM 1 hr, 16 min History
Ellery's Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle Over School Prayer
Author: Stephen D. Solomon

9:15 AM 1 hr, 31 min Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
Author: Richard Kahlenberg

10:45 AM 1 hr, 45 min Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
Author: Jorge Castaneda

12:30 PM 58 min History
Tom Wheeler, "Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War"
Author: Tom Wheeler

1:30 PM 42 min Battlefield tour with Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History"
Author: Marc Leepson

2:15 PM 50 min History
Julie Fenster "The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President"
Author: Julie Fenster

3:00 PM 1 hr, 9 min History
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Shorter version)
Author: Elizabeth Brown Pryor

4:15 PM 28 min Gary Gallagher In Depth Program Portion

4:40 PM 12 min What's New in Lincoln Books? Interview with Harold Holzer & Frank Williams
Authors: Harold Holzer; Frank Williams

5:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min History
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Author: Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank

6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes: "Ciao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S."
Author: Beppe Severgnini

7:00 PM 55 min The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda
Author: Jerrold Post

8:00 PM 1 hr Politics
The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
Author: Strobe Talbot

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Susan Faludi author of "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America"

10:00 PM 56 min Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner
Author: John Sullivan

11:00 PM 1 hr, 11 min Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Author: Maryanne Wolf


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Sunday, January 6, 2008

12:00 AM 58 min History
Tom Wheeler, "Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War"
Author: Tom Wheeler

1:00 AM 42 min Battlefield tour with Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History"
Author: Marc Leepson

1:45 AM 50 min History
Julie Fenster "The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President"
Author: Julie Fenster

2:30 AM 1 hr, 9 min History
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Shorter version)
Author: Elizabeth Brown Pryor

3:45 AM 28 min Gary Gallagher In Depth Program Portion

4:10 AM 12 min What's New in Lincoln Books? Interview with Harold Holzer & Frank Williams
Authors: Harold Holzer; Frank Williams

4:30 AM 1 hr, 3 min History
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Author: Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank

5:30 AM 1 hr Politics
The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
Author: Strobe Talbot

6:30 AM 54 min History
2007 National Book Festival: Korean War Veterans discuss David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War"
Authors: Lawrence Farnum; Charles Hayward; Ralph Hockley; Paul McGee; Richard Raybould; Daun Van Ee

7:30 AM 1 hr, 28 min Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror By Breaking Free of Oil
Author: Robert Zubrin

9:00 AM 1 hr, 45 min Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
Author: Jorge Castaneda

10:45 AM 55 min The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda
Author: Jerrold Post

12:00 PM 3 hr In Depth: Nell Irvin Painter

3:00 PM 56 min The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's
Authors: Victor Davis Hanson; Heather Mac Donald; Steven Malanga

4:00 PM 1 hr Politics
The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
Author: Strobe Talbot

5:00 PM 57 min Politics
The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
Author: Donald Critchlow

6:00 PM 58 min After Words: Susan Faludi author of "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America"

7:00 PM 54 min History
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since
Author: Stephen Mansfield

8:00 PM 51 min Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies
Author: Mohamed Nimer

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Susan Faludi author of "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America"

10:00 PM 1 hr, 30 min History
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Author: Vincent Virga

11:25 PM 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


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Monday, January 7, 2008

12:00 AM 3 hr In Depth: Nell Irvin Painter

3:00 AM 58 min After Words: Susan Faludi author of "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America"

4:00 AM 1 hr, 30 min History
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Author: Vincent Virga

5:25 AM 22 min Somebody's Gotta Say It
Author: Neal Boortz

6:00 AM 55 min The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda
Author: Jerrold Post

7:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
Author: Sasha Abramsky

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

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In her book "Proust and the Squid," neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf describes how the human brain learned to read, only a few thousand years ago, and how reading has changed the way our brains work.

Maryanne Wolf teaches child development at Tufts University, where she holds the John DeBiaggio Chair of Citizenship and Public Service and is the director of the Center for Reading and Language Research.

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Nell Irvin Painter is the author of six books, including "Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1618 to the Present" and "Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol." She was an American history professor at Princeton for sixteen years before retiring in 2005. From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Painter was head of the university's Program in African American Studies. Call in during In Depth to talk to Nell Irvin Painter or e-mail your questions for her to booktv@c-span.org.
Nell Irvin Painter's works include: "Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction" (1976), "The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South" (1979), "Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919" (1987), "Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol" (1996), "Southern History Across the Color Line" (2002), and "Creating Black Americans: African- American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present" (2005). Ms. Painter also edited "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" (1998) and "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Written By Herself" by Harriet Jacobs (2000). For more information, visit nellpainter.com.