List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1994

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 2, 1994David Levering LewisW. E. B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919W. E. B. Du Bois
January 9, 1994William BennettThe Book of VirtuesVirtue
January 16, 1994Carolyn BartaPerot and His People: Disrupting the Balance of Political PowerRoss Perot; The Reform Party
January 23, 1994Gary Hymel and Tip O'NeillAll Politics is Local and other Rules of the GameMemoir/Autobiography; The U.S. House of Representatives; Politics of Massachusetts
January 30, 1994William ChafeNever Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American LiberalismAllard Lowenstein
February 6, 1994Stanley WeintraubDisraeli: A BiographyBenjamin Disraeli
February 13, 1994Bill EmmottJapanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible JapaneseEconomy of Japan; Anti-Japanese sentiment
February 20, 1994Peter ArnettLive from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 years in the World's War ZonesMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; The Vietnam War; The Gulf War
February 27, 1994Stephen LesherGeorge Wallace: American PopulistGeorge Wallace
March 6, 1994Nathan McCallMakes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in AmericaMemoir/Autobiography
March 13, 1994Norman OrnsteinDebt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About ItTaxation in the United States; United States public debt
March 20, 1994Clare BrandtThe Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict ArnoldBenedict Arnold
March 27, 1994John CorryMy Times: Adventures in the News TradeMemoir/Autobiography; The New York Times
April 3, 1994Andrew YoungA Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew YoungMemoir/Autobiography; African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
April 10, 1994Fifth Anniversary SpecialN/AExcerpts from and interviews about the first five years of Booknotes
April 17, 1994James CannonTime and Change: Gerald Ford's Appointment with HistoryGerald Ford
May 1, 1994Howell RainesFly Fishing Through the Mid Life CrisisMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism
May 8, 1994John KeeganA History of WarfareWarfare
May 15, 1994Forrest McDonaldThe American Presidency: An Intellectual HistoryPresident of the United States
May 22, 1994James McPhersonWhat They Fought For, 1861-1865 American Civil War
May 29, 1994Pete HamillA Drinking Life: A MemoirMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism
June 5, 1994Stephen AmbroseD-Day: June 6, 1944—The Climactic Battle of World War IIOperation Overlord
June 12, 1994Mark E. Neely, Jr.The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of AmericaAbraham Lincoln
June 19, 1994Sam RobertsWho We Are: A Portrait of AmericaDemographics of the United States; 1990 United States Census
June 26, 1994Lani GuinierThe Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative DemocracyRacism in the United States
July 3, 1994Murray KemptonRebellions, Perversities, and Main EventsHistory of the United States; Paul Robeson; Cassius Clay; A. Philip Randolph; Karl Marx; Ronald Reagan; Westbrook Pegler; Alger Hiss; H.L. Mencken; Whittaker Chambers
July 10, 1994Cal ThomasThe Things That Matter MostModern liberalism in the United States; Criticisms of the War on Poverty
July 17, 1994David Hackett FischerPaul Revere's RidePaul Revere; "Paul Revere's Ride"
July 24, 1994Dan QuayleStanding FirmMemoir/Autobiography; The Vice President of the United States; George H.W. Bush
July 31, 1994Colman McCarthyAll of One Peace: Essays on NonviolenceNonviolence; Pacifism
August 7, 1994Peter CollierThe Roosevelts: An American SagaRoosevelt family
August 14, 1994Merrill PetersonLincoln in American MemoryAbraham Lincoln; Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
August 21, 1994Hugh PearsonThe Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in AmericaHuey Newton; The Black Panthers
August 28, 1994John LeoTwo Steps Ahead of the Thought PolicePolitical correctness
September 4, 1994Paul WeaverNews and the Culture of LyingJournalism; Pseudo-events
September 11, 1994Shelby FooteStars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg CampaignAmerican Civil War
September 18, 1994Irving BartlettJohn C. Calhoun: A BiographyJohn Calhoun
September 25, 1994Ben YagodaWill Rogers: A BiographyWill Rogers
October 2, 1994Harry Jaffe and Tom SherwoodDream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.
October 9, 1994Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Colored PeopleAfrican-American history; African Americans in the 1960s
October 16, 1994Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunnChina Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising PowerChina
October 23, 1994Liz CarpenterUnplanned ParenthoodParenting; Old age; Lady Bird Johnson
October 30, 1994David FrumDead RightRepublican Party (United States)
November 6, 1994Bill ThomasClub Fed: Power, Money, Sex and Violence on Capitol HillPolitical power; Capitol Hill
November 13, 1994John Kenneth GalbraithA Journey Through Economic TimeEconomics
November 20, 1994Milton FriedmanIntroduction to the 50th anniversary edition of F.A. Hayek's Road to SerfdomEconomics; Classical liberalism
November 27, 1994Melba Pattillo BealsWarriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central HighMemoir/Autobiography; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock Nine
December 4, 1994Charles MurrayThe Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American LifeIntelligence; Race and intelligence
December 11, 1994Elizabeth DrewOn The Edge: The Clinton PresidencyBill Clinton; Presidency of Bill Clinton
December 18, 1994Peter RobinsonSnapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBAStanford Graduate School of Business
December 25, 1994Glenn FrankelBeyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New IsraelIsrael; Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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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