List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2002

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)
AuthorBookSubject matter
January 6, 2002Bill PressSpin This! All The Ways We Don’t Tell the TruthSpin (public relations)
January 13, 2002Jeffrey HartSmiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher EducationWestern canon; Higher education in the United States
January 20, 2002John LaurenceThe Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War StoryThe Vietnam War
January 27, 2002Sandra Day O’ConnorLazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American SouthwestMemoir/Autobiography; Duncan, Arizona; Ranching
February 3, 2002Ralph NaderCrashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for PresidentMemoir/Autobiography; 2000 United States presidential election; Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2000
February 10, 2002Steve NealHarry & Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar WorldHarry Truman; Dwight Eisenhower
February 17, 2002Edward Steers Jr.Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham LincolnThe Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
February 24, 2002R. Kent NewmyerJohn Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme CourtJohn Marshall
March 3, 2002Randall KennedyNigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome WordUse of the word "Nigger"
March 10, 2002Richard LingemanSinclair Lewis: Rebel From MainstreetSinclair Lewis
March 17, 2002Michael NovakOn Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American FoundingHistory of religion in the United States; Founding Fathers of the United States
March 24, 2002Jon RonsonThem: Adventures with ExtremistsConspiracy Theories; Extremism
March 31, 2002Frank WuYellow: Race in America Beyond Black and WhiteAsian Americans
April 7, 2002Leonard Downie Jr., Co-AuthorThe News About the News: American Journalism in PerilJournalism
April 14, 2002Ellen Joan PollockThe Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in HistoryMartin Frankel
April 21, 2002Gordon WoodThe American Revolution: A HistoryThe American Revolution
April 28, 2002Robert SkidelskyJohn Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946John Maynard Keynes
May 5, 2002Sarah BradyA Good FightJames Brady; Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; Gun politics in the United States
May 12, 2002Jennifer TothWhat Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of A Child Turning ViolentCauses and correlates of crime; Foster care
May 19, 2002James SrodesFranklin: The Essential Founding FatherBenjamin Franklin
May 26, 2002Richard John NeuhausAs I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon ReturningDeath
June 2, 2002Richard PosnerPublic Intellectuals: A Study of DeclinePublic intellectuals
June 9, 2002Jennet ConantTuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War IIAlfred Lee Loomis
June 16, 2002Samantha PowerA Problem From Hell: America and the Age of GenocideGenocide; United States non-interventionism
June 23, 2002Diana PrestonLusitania: An Epic TragedyThe RMS Lusitania
June 30, 2002John LeonardLonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive CulturesEssays; Intellectuals; Exile; Expatriates
July 7, 2002Sandra MackeyThe Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam HusseinIraq; Saddam Hussein
July 14, 2002Nguyen Cao KyBuddha’s Child: My Fight to Save VietnamVietnam
July 21, 2002Daniel StashowerThe Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of TelevisionPhilo T. Farnsworth; David Sarnoff; History of Television
July 28, 2002Beppe SevergniniCiao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S.Culture of the United States
August 4, 2002Glenn LouryThe Anatomy of Racial InequalityRace in the United States
August 11, 2002Ann CoulterSlander: Liberal Lies About the American RightMedia bias in the United States; American Left; Conservatism in the United States
August 18, 2002Simon WorrallThe Poet and the MurdererMark Hofmann
August 25, 2002Michael OrenSix Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle EastThe Six-Day War
September 1, 2002Winston GroomA Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918—Tragedy and Triumph on the Western FrontYpres Salient; First Battle of Ypres; Second Battle of Ypres; Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of the Lys (1918); Fifth Battle of Ypres
September 8, 2002Dennis HutchinsonThe Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's WashingtonJohn Frush Knox
September 15, 2002Arnold LudwigKing of the Mountain: The Nature of Political LeadershipLeadership; Politics; Heads of state; Heads of government
September 22, 2002Eliot CohenSupreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in WartimeCivilian control of the military; Abraham Lincoln; Georges Clemenceau; Winston Churchill; David Ben-Gurion
September 29, 2002Pete DaviesAmerican Road: The Story of An Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor AgeTranscontinental Motor Convoy
October 6, 2002Zig ZiglarZig: The Autobiography of Zig ZiglarMemoir/Autobiography; Sales; Motivational speaking
October 13, 2002Linda GreenlawThe Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small IslandLobstering; Maine
October 20, 2002Michael MandelbaumThe Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first CenturyGlobalization; Peace; Democracy; Free market economics
October 27, 2002Charles SlackNoble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth CenturyCharles Goodyear; Thomas Hancock; Vulcanization
November 3, 2002Caryle MurphyPassion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East—The Egyptian ExperienceIslam in Egypt
November 10, 2002Frank WilliamsJudging LincolnAbraham Lincoln
November 17, 2002Rick AtkinsonAn Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943North African Campaign; Operation Torch
November 24, 2002Peter KrassCarnegieAndrew Carnegie
December 1, 2002Bruce FeilerAbraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three FaithsAbraham; Abrahamic religions
December 8, 2002Michelle MalkinInvasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our ShoresImmigration to the United States; Illegal immigration to the United States
December 15, 2002John TaliaferroGreat White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. RushmoreGutzon Borglum; Mount Rushmore; Construction of Mount Rushmore
December 22, 2002Diana WalkerPublic & Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the PresidencyPhotojournalism
December 29, 2002Margaret MacMillanParis 1919: Six Months That Changed the WorldParis Peace Conference, 1919

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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