List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1993

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)
Author Book Subject matter
January 3, 1993Michael Davis and Hunter ClarkThurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the BenchThurgood Marshall
January 10, 1993Jeffrey BirnbaumThe Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in WashingtonLobbying in the United States
January 17, 1993P.F. BentleyClinton: Portrait of VictoryBill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992
January 24, 1993Robert GilbertThe Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White HouseCalvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness; Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Health of Ronald Reagan
January 31, 1993Benjamin SteinA License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the NationMichael Milken
February 7, 1993Jack NelsonTerror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the JewsThe Ku Klux Klan
February 14, 1993Nathan MillerTheodore Roosevelt: A LifeTheodore Roosevelt
February 21, 1993Richard Norton SmithPatriarch: George Washington and the New American NationGeorge Washington
February 28, 1993Kay MillsThis Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou HamerFannie Lou Hamer
March 6, 1993Alex DragnichSerbs and Croats: The Struggle in YugoslaviaSerbs; Croats; Yugoslavia
March 13, 1993Paul KennedyPreparing for the Twenty-First Century21st century
March 21, 1993Deborah ShapleyPromise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamaraRobert McNamara
March 28, 1993Michael KellyMartyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small WarGulf War; 20th century history of Iraq
April 4, 1993Nadine CohodasStrom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern ChangeStrom Thurmond
April 11, 1993Blanche Wiesen CookEleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933Eleanor Roosevelt
April 18, 1993Douglas BrinkleyThe Majic Bus: An American OdysseyHistory of the United States
April 25, 1993Lisa BelkinFirst, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City HospitalHermann Hospital; Medical ethics
May 2, 1993Marshall DeBruhlSword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam HoustonSam Houston
May 9, 1993Charles AdamsFor Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of CivilizationCategory:History of taxation
May 16, 1993Anna QuindlenThinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the PrivateMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism
May 23, 1993George BallThe Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the PresentIsrael–United States relations
May 30, 1993Douglas DavisThe Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the MessageTelevision in the United States
June 6, 1993J. Bowyer BellThe Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992The Troubles
June 13, 1993David BrockThe Real Anita HillAnita Hill
June 20, 1993Howard KurtzMedia Circus: The Trouble with America's NewspapersNewspapers in the United States
June 27, 1993George ShultzTurmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of StateMemoir/Autobiography; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; United States Secretary of State
July 4, 1993Joel KriegerThe Oxford Companion to Politics of the WorldInternational relations
July 11, 1993David HalberstamThe FiftiesUnited States in the 1950s
July 18, 1993Molly MooreA Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. MarinesMemoir/Autobiography; United States Marine Corps; Gulf War; War journalism
July 25, 1993David RemnickLenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireDissolution of the Soviet Union
August 1, 1993Alexander Brook and Warren H. PhillipsThe Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper EditorNewspapers; Kennebunk, Maine
August 8, 1993Tom RosenstielStrange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992United States presidential election, 1992; ABC News
August 15, 1993Lewis LaphamThe Wish for Kings: Democracy at BayFederal government of the United States
August 22, 1993Harold HolzerThe Lincoln-Douglas DebatesThe Lincoln-Douglas debates
August 29, 1993Peter MacdonaldGiap: The Victor in VietnamGeneral Võ Nguyên Giáp
September 5, 1993Joseph EllisPassionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John AdamsJohn Adams
September 12, 1993Ronald KesslerThe FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement AgencyThe Federal Bureau of Investigation
September 19, 1993Madeline CartwrightFor the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public SchoolSchool District of Philadelphia; Public education in the United States
September 26, 1993Malcolm BrowneMuddy Boots and Red SocksMemoir/Autobiography; War journalism; Vietnam War
October 3, 1993Peter SkerryMexican-Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityMexican Americans
October 10, 1993Alan BrinkleyThe Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American PeopleThe History of the United States
October 17, 1993Christopher HitchensFor the Sake of ArgumentChristopher Hitchens's political views
October 24, 1993William F. Buckley Jr.Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian JournalistMemoir/Autobiography; The National Review; Firing Line
October 31, 1993Andrew NagorskiThe Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern EuropeEastern Europe
November 7, 1993Charles MeePlaying God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the WorldPope Leo I and Attila the Hun; Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France; Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II; Congress of Vienna; Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Yalta Conference; G7
November 14, 1993Herbert BlockHerblock: A Cartoonist's LifeMemoir/Autobiography; Editorial cartoons
November 28, 1993Betty FriedanThe Fountain of AgeAgeing
December 5, 1993Margaret ThatcherThe Downing Street YearsMemoir/Autobiography; Premiership of Margaret Thatcher
December 12, 1993Richard ReevesPresident Kennedy: Profile of PowerJohn F. Kennedy
December 19, 1993John PodhoretzHell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of George H.W. Bush
December 26, 1993Willard Sterne RandallThomas Jefferson: A LifeThomas Jefferson

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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