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166852-1 | Phyllis Lee Levin | Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House | Elegantly written, tirelessly researched, full of shocking revelations, Edith and Woodrow offers the definitive examination of the controversial role Woodrow Wilson's second wife played in running the country. "The story of Wilson's second marriage, and of the large events on which its shadow was cast, is darker and mo... | 2001-12-09T00:00:00 | 0743211588 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/166852-1 |
178993-1 | Rich Lowry | Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years | —from the publisher's website Bill and Hillary Clinton don't want you to read this book. Bill has spent his days since the presidency aggressively defending his legacy, and Hillary plans to run for president on it, and now, unfortunately for them, Rich Lowry uses sound fact and shocking detail to dispel the myth of the... | 2003-11-09T00:00:00 | 0895261294 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/178993-1 |
176900-1 | Willard Scott | The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune | —from the publisher's website A humorous and touching look at the joys of getting older, introduced by one of the Today show's beloved weathermen. Willard Scott is famous for celebrating the wit and wisdom of age. In The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune , he asks a wide range of people, "What's the greatest thing ... | 2003-07-13T00:00:00 | 0786868929 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/176900-1 |
179909-1 | Nathaniel Philbrick | Sea of Glory | —from the publisher's website In 1838, the U.S. government launched the largest discovery voyage the Western world had ever seen-6 sailing vessels and 346 men bound for the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Four years later, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, or Ex. Ex. as it was known, returned with an astounding array of acco... | 2004-01-25T00:00:00 | 067003231X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/179909-1 |
9801-1 | Vassily Aksyonov | Say Cheese | Soviet dissident, Vassily Aksyonov, discusses his latest novel, “Say Cheese: Soviets & the Media.” It is a fictional account of a group of Soviet photographers who venture to publish their works without the approval of the Communist Party. Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1980, Aksyonov describes his novel as metaphor... | 1989-11-05T00:00:00 | 0394543637 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/9801-1 |
163715-1 | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home | The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, but a contemporary African American saying predicted that freedom would come only after another hundred years of struggle. That prediction was about right: the civil rights struggle erupted in the middle of the 20th century, with its violence epicenter in the industrial... | 2001-05-27T00:00:00 | 0684807475 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/163715-1 |
168868-1 | Ellen Joan Pollock | The Pretender: Martin Frankel | WALL STREET JOURNAL senior reporter Ellen Joan Pollock tracks the elusive, multimillionaire financier Martin Frankel in her new book, "The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History." (Available in hardcover and e-book formats in January.)... | 2002-04-14T00:00:00 | 0743204158 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/168868-1 |
103970-1 | Jill Ker Conway | When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography | Jill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers—author of The Road from Coorain and True North —looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrati... | 1998-05-24T00:00:00 | 0679445935 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/103970-1 |
9970-1 | Robin Wright | In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade | Formerly with the Sunday Times of London and stationed in the Middle East, foreign correspondent Robin Wright catalogs her experiences of Iran in, "In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade." Wright explains that her rationale for writing the book was to take an objective look at the Iranian situation. Extensively resear... | 1989-11-19T00:00:00 | 0671725114 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/9970-1 |
159447-1 | Kenneth Ackerman | Dark Horse | —from the publisher's website In post - Civil War America, politics was a brutal sport played with blunt rules. Yet James Garfield’s 1881 dark horse campaign after the longest-ever Republican nominating process (36 convention ballots), his victory in the closest-ever popular vote for president (by only 7,018 votes out ... | 2003-07-27T00:00:00 | 0786711515 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/159447-1 |
7984-1 | Robert Christopher | Crashing the Gates | The influence of WASPs (white anglo-saxon protestants) on American society is explored by Robert Christopher in his new book, Crashing the Gates: The De-WASPing of the Power Elite. Christopher examines the reasons for the changing ethnic makeup of the power elite and why it is no longer dominated by WASPs. Christopher ... | 1989-06-11T00:00:00 | 0671473344 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/7984-1 |
115519-1 | A. Scott Berg | Lindbergh | From one of America's most acclaimed biographers, here at last is the definitive life of one of the most legendary, controversial, and enigmatic figuers in American history—Charles A. Lindbergh. National Book Award winner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to have been given unrestricted access to the massive L... | 1998-12-20T00:00:00 | 0399144498 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/115519-1 |
15288-1 | Sally Bedell Smith | In All His Glory: The Life of William Paley | Former New York Times media reporter, Sally Bedell Smith, discussed her new book, In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley: The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle. The nearly 800-page biography, composed from 700 interviews, chronicles Mr. Paley's start as the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant through his ... | 1990-12-09T00:00:00 | 067172780X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/15288-1 |
179037-1 | Tom Coburn | Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders | —from the publisher's website In Breach of Trust , former U.S. Congressman Tom A. Coburn explores how Washington resists critical reform by co-opting the men and women who seek to change the system. Tom A. Coburn, a congressional maverick who kept his promise to serve three terms and then leave Washington, offers a can... | 2003-11-23T00:00:00 | 0785262202 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/179037-1 |
8678-1 | Bob Schieffer | The Acting President | Authors Schieffer and Gates assert in their book, "The Acting President," that for eight years American foreign and domestic policy was controlled and shaped as much by the advisers to President Ronald Reagan as by the president himself. Schieffer and Gates discuss their early careers in journalism and how network news... | 1989-08-13T00:00:00 | 0525485791 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/8678-1 |
8219-1 | Nathaniel Branden | Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand | Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand, is Nathaniel Branden's memoir of his 18-year relationship with Ms. Rand. Mr. Branden discusses Ms. Rand's philosophy as a champion of the individual and an advocate of capitalism. He also includes his experience as a confidant of Ms. Rand and a member of her inner circle and conclu... | 1989-07-02T00:00:00 | 0395461073 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/8219-1 |
11271-1 | Michael Fumento | The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS | Mr. Fumento talked about his book The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: How a Tragedy Has Been Distorted by the Media and Partisan Politics, published by Regnery. The author discussed problems in getting the book published and in getting it distributed because of controversy over AIDS. He described getting interested in the e... | 1990-02-25T00:00:00 | 0895267292 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/11271-1 |
26463-1 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | The Conservative Crack-Up | Conservative political observer R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. discussed the ideas behind his book, "The Conservative Crack-Up," which studied the progress of the conservative movement in the 1990's. Mr. Tyrrell said the conservative crack-up occurred following the end of the Reagan administration, when the Bush administration... | 1992-06-07T00:00:00 | 0671660381 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/26463-1 |
164149-1 | Daniel Schorr | Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism | Long a familiar face to American television-news viewers, and more recently a familiar voice to public-radio listeners, Daniel Schorr recounts his 60-plus-year career covering some of the most significant events of the last century. Schorr knew that he wanted to be a journalist from a very young age, though his mother ... | 2001-07-01T00:00:00 | 0671020870 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/164149-1 |
170772-1 | Monica Langley | Tearing Down the Walls | —from the publisher's website TEARING DOWN THE WALLS is the story of Sanford "Sandy" Weill, a rough-edged kid from Brooklyn, who overcame incredible odds and deep-seated prejudice, to put together Citigroup, the world's largest financial empire, and to transform financial services in America. Tearing Down the Walls pro... | 2003-05-11T00:00:00 | 074321613X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/170772-1 |
9718-1 | Rev. Ralph David Abernathy | And the Walls Came Tumbling Down | Abernathy chronicles his personal experience in the civil rights movement in his autobiography, “And the Walls Came Tumbling Down,” published by HarperCollins. In the book, Mr. Abernathy gives an insider account of the Civil Rights movement detailing the organization of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and the 1965 M... | 1989-10-29T00:00:00 | 0060161922 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/9718-1 |
96629-1 | Carol Reardon | Pickett's Charge in History & Memory | If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment in our nation's history, is Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses. Why, then,... | 1998-02-08T00:00:00 | 0807823791 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/96629-1 |
43009-1 | David Brock | The Real Anita Hill | Mr. Brock talked about the research behind his book, The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story. He talked about the credibility of Clarence Thomas's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the lack of credibility in Anita Hill's testimony. The author claimed that Hill's testimony was "shot through with false, i... | 1993-06-13T00:00:00 | 0029046564 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/43009-1 |
23574-1 | Jimmy Breslin | Damon Runyon: A Life | Columnist Jimmy Breslin discussed his book, Damon Runyon: A Life, in which he described the New York literary scene of the 1920s and 30s, including the life and times of writer and reporter Damon Runyon. Mr. Breslin also discussed the current literary and political atmosphere of New York City, and spoke warmly of the r... | 1991-12-29T00:00:00 | 0899199844 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/23574-1 |
21448-1 | Robert Dallek | Lone Star Rising | Mr. Dallek discussed his book Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908-1960, which follows the president's life from childhood to his vice presidency. A second volume will cover the remainder of his life. Since President Johnson is usually remembered by the public and portrayed by biographers in negative ter... | 1991-09-22T00:00:00 | 0195079043 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/21448-1 |
22332-1 | Don Oberdorfer | The Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era | Mr. Oberdorfer, author of "The Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era, The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983- 1990," discussed the history of U.S.- Soviet relations, and how interaction between the two countries has changed in recent years. He also talked briefly about the recently attempted Soviet coup, and how i... | 1991-10-27T00:00:00 | 0671707833 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/22332-1 |
177866-1 | Victor Davis Hanson | Mexifornia: A State of Becoming | Mr. Hanson talked about his book Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, published by Encounter Books. The book examined the hybrid culture emerging in California and which citizens benefit from different political stances. He also talked about immigration policy and its impact on American culture. | 2003-09-28T00:00:00 | 1893554732 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/177866-1 |
151937-1 | Witold Rybczynski | A Clearing in the Distance | Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer, well known for his plans for New York's Central Park and Prospect Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the campus of Stanford University, among other noteworthy sites. But, writes urban studies professor and ac... | 1999-10-17T00:00:00 | 0684824639 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/151937-1 |
13505-1 | Roger Kimball | Tenured Radicals | Roger Kimball discussed his book "Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education," published by Abrams Books. A revised edition of this book was published in 1998 by Ivan R. Dee Publishers. In this book, he argues that the radicalism of the 1960s has worked its way into colleges and universities thro... | 1990-08-12T00:00:00 | 1566631955 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/13505-1 |
67133-1 | Susan Eisenhower | Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution | Ms. Eisenhower discussed her book, Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution, published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux. The book is the story of her love affair and eventual marriage to a member of President Gorbachev's inner circle and head of the Soviet civilian space program. These events happened during the breakup... | 1995-10-08T00:00:00 | 0374262462 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/67133-1 |
49562-1 | Peter MacDonald | Giap: The Victor in Vietnam | Peter MacDonald, an officer in the British Army for over thirty years, talked about his book "Giap: The Victor in Vietnam." The book is a biography of General Giap, the commander of the Vietnamese army during the Indonesia and Vietnam Wars. Mr. MacDonald discussed the research behind his work and the book's reception b... | 1993-08-29T00:00:00 | 0393034011 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/49562-1 |
17548-1 | William Strauss | Generations: The History of America's Future | The authors discussed their book, "Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069." The book is about the effect of generational trends on history and American culture. The authors sort Americans into 18 generations, and then distinguish among four life cycle types. Each generation seems to take on one of t... | 1991-04-14T00:00:00 | 0688119123 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/17548-1 |
153355-1 | Eugene Robinson | Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race | Eugene Robinson didn't expect to have his world turned upside down when he accompanied a group of friends and acquaintances to the beach at Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro one sunny afternoon. He had recently moved to South America as the new correspondent for the Washington Post, a position he had sought not only as an exci... | 1999-11-07T00:00:00 | 0684857227 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/153355-1 |
13063-1 | Denton Watson | Lion in the Lobby | Denton L. Watson, author of "Lion in the Lobby," discussed his book concerning the life and times of Clarence Mitchell. Mitchell served as the director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP and became the foremost civil rights lobbyist in Washington. He was popularly called the "101st senator" and former Senate Majorit... | 1990-07-08T00:00:00 | 0688050972 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/13063-1 |
67754-1 | Marlin Fitzwater | Call the Briefing! | Mr. Fitzwater discussed his recent book, Call the Briefing! Bush and Reagan, Sam and Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press, published by Times Books. He reminisced about his years in the White House press office in his service as press secretary to both Presidents Reagan and Bush from 1983 to 1993 and his relat... | 1995-11-05T00:00:00 | 0738834572 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/67754-1 |
80864-1 | Pavel Palazchenko | My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze | Pavel Palazchenko discussed his book, "My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter," published by Pennsylvania State University Press. Mr. Palazchenko was the principal interpreter for Soviet Union premier Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze during the crucial... | 1997-06-08T00:00:00 | 0271016035 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/80864-1 |
184076-1 | Mark Edmundson | Why Read? | —from the publisher's website If religion continues to lose its hold on consequential parts of society, what can take its place in guiding souls? In this important book reconceiving the value and promise of reading, acclaimed author Edmundson dramatizes what the recent identity crisis of the humanities has effectively ... | 2004-12-05T00:00:00 | 1582344256 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/184076-1 |
166642-1 | Laura Claridge | Norman Rockwell: A Life | Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist but a “mere illustra... | 2001-12-02T00:00:00 | 1588360644 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/166642-1 |
58456-1 | Murray Kempton | Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events | Murray Kempton discussed his book, "Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events," which deals with several lesser-known African-American leaders in U.S. history. This is the best of Murray Kempton's columns, essays, reviews, and reportage. In the words of David Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb, "(this book is) like watchi... | 1994-07-03T00:00:00 | 9780812922943 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/58456-1 |
177169-1 | Dorothy Height | Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir | —from the publisher's website Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her passion for her cause, ... | 2003-08-03T00:00:00 | 1586481576 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/177169-1 |
166924-1 | Jeffrey Hart | Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe | Although the essential books of Western civilization are no longer central in our courses or in our thoughts, they retain their ability to energize us intellectually, says Jeffrey Hart in this powerful book. He now presents a guide to some of these literary works, tracing the main currents of Western culture for all wh... | 2002-01-13T00:00:00 | 0300087047 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/166924-1 |
61965-1 | Charles Murray | The Bell Curve | Charles Murray discussed the book he co-authored, "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life." The book focuses on human intelligence and the way social problems are affected by it. The other co-author, Richard J. Herrnstein, died shortly before the publication of the book. | 1994-12-04T00:00:00 | 0029146739 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/61965-1 |
7854-1 | James MacGregor Burns | The Crosswinds of Freedom | James MacGregor Burns, author of "Crosswinds of Freedom," analyzed the past half-century of American history, beginning with Roosevelt's New Deal and concluding with the last days of the Reagan presidency. He also described personal experiences with presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Burns conclu... | 1989-06-04T00:00:00 | 0679728198 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/7854-1 |
172771-1 | Eliot Cohen | Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime | —from the publisher's website The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show -- the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command , Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen ... | 2002-09-22T00:00:00 | 0743230493 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/172771-1 |
159499-1 | Robert Putnam | Bowling Alone | Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from the Roper Social and Political Trends and the DDB Needham Life Style... | 2000-12-24T00:00:00 | 0684832836 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/159499-1 |
52150-1 | Charles Mee | Playing God | Charles Mee talked about his book, "Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World," published by Simon and Schuster. Seven examples of summit diplomacy, from Attila the Hun to a G7 meeting in London in 1991, were described. Mr. Mee called his book a group of essays rather than the results of... | 1993-11-07T00:00:00 | 0671678884 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/52150-1 |
77139-1 | Edward Jay Epstein | Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer | Mr. Epstein talked about his new book, Dossier: The Secret Life of Armand Hammer, published by Random House. He talked about the public and private lives of Mr. Hammer, the chairman of Occidental Petroleum. He also revealed some of the more negative aspects of his life, including his ties to the KGB and and his philand... | 1997-01-05T00:00:00 | 0679448020 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/77139-1 |
99247-1 | John Marszalek | The Petticoat Affair | THE PETTICOAT AFFAIR, by award-winning historian John F. Marszalek, is the definitive account of the greatest political sex scandal in American history. It tells the fascinating story of Margaret O'Neale Eaton, the brash and unconventional wife of Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War, who was branded a "loose woman" and s... | 1998-03-08T00:00:00 | 0684828014 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/99247-1 |
176128-1 | Paul Theroux | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town | —from the publisher's website In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux’s reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, du... | 2003-05-18T00:00:00 | 0618134247 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/176128-1 |
155602-1 | Allen Guelzo | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President | A unique "intellectual biography" of America's most celebrated president. Despite tremendous interest in Abraham Lincoln and his place in one of America's most tumultuous historical periods, little has been written about his religious life. This truly fresh look at the nation's sixteenth president relates the outward e... | 2000-04-16T00:00:00 | 0802838723 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/155602-1 |
151983-1 | Michael Kammen | American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change & the 20th Century | Intellectuals are often accused of viewing mass entertainment with contempt, fear, or condescension. The rise of cultural-studies programs in prestigious universities, however, reveals that this perception couldn't be further from the truth. In "American Culture, American Tastes," Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Micha... | 1999-10-24T00:00:00 | 0679427406 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/151983-1 |
68638-1 | David Herbert Donald | Lincoln | Professor Donald talked about his recent book, Lincoln, published by Simon and Schuster . The book emphasizes four aspects of President Lincoln's life: his ambition, his law practice, his married life and his several electoral defeats. Parts of the audio cassette abridgement were also played. Professor Donald's first b... | 1995-12-24T00:00:00 | 068482535X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/68638-1 |
151784-1 | Stuart Rochester | Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 | Among the many horrors of the Vietnam War, some of the most brutal and, until now, least documented were the experiences of the American prisoners of war, many of whom endured the longest wartime captivity of any POWs in U.S. history. With this book, two respected scholars in the field offer a comprehensive, balanced, ... | 1999-10-10T00:00:00 | 1557506949 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/151784-1 |
48693-1 | Lewis Lapham | The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay | Lewis Lapham discussed the research behind his book, "The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay," published by Grove Press, which examines the federal government in terms of the private idiosyncracies of high officials in recent presidential administrations. He detailed anecdotes in his book which cite the opulent lifestyle... | 1993-08-15T00:00:00 | 0802114466 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/48693-1 |
95782-1 | Allan Metcalf | America In So Many Words | America in So Many Words presents a unique and fascinating historical view of this country's language. It chronicles, year by year, the contributions we have made to the vocabulary of English and the words we have embraced as the nation has evolved. From canoe (1555) and corn (1608) to newbie (1993) and Ebonics (1997),... | 1998-01-18T00:00:00 | 0395860202 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/95782-1 |
55075-1 | Nathan McCall | Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America | Mr. McCall discussed his book, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, published by Random House. Mr. McCall's memoir discusses his childhood in Portsmouth, Virginia, his time in prison and rehabilitation, and his eventual employment with the Washington Post. The book describes his life and his coming to t... | 1994-03-06T00:00:00 | 0679740708 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/55075-1 |
8143-1 | Elizabeth Colton | The Jackson Phenomenon | Elizabeth Colton, author of The Jackson Phenomenon and former press secretary to the Jackson campaign, explores the private as well as public persona of Jesse Jackson. Colton analyzes the impact of the Jackson campaign on America politics and says that while Jackson might never become president, he has opened the door ... | 1989-06-25T00:00:00 | 5551371905 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/8143-1 |
56058-1 | Howell Raines | Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis | Howell Raines spoke about the history of fly fishing and the hobby helped him through his midlife crisis. He authored a book about his experience called "Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis," published by William Morrow and Company. | 1994-05-01T00:00:00 | 9780688103460 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/56058-1 |
60989-1 | Bill Thomas | Club Fed: Power, Money, Sex and Violence on Capitol Hill | In ClubFed Bill Thomas, former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, uncovers in uproarious fashion exactly how and why the work of Congress - barely - gets done. He laces his knowing dissection of the Hill with invaluable insights into the legislative business of Congress: how bills get written - and how lobbyists, it seems... | 1994-11-06T00:00:00 | 0684196352 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/60989-1 |
17736-1 | Caroline Kennedy | In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action | The two attorneys discussed their book, "In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action." They said the book was written to show a such a short document written 200 years ago for a very different society has evolved to still be able to accommodate and protect today's America. The book is written by using stories of peopl... | 1991-04-28T00:00:00 | 0833587544 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/17736-1 |
171603-1 | Pete Davies | American Road | —from the publisher's website A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history. On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of dirt, mud, rock, and sand.... | 2002-09-29T00:00:00 | 080506883X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/171603-1 |
162197-1 | John McWhorter | Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority | —from the publisher's website Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating and profound collection of essays by the controversial thinker and passionate advocate for racial enlightenment and achievement explores what it means to be black in America today. According to the author, nearly f... | 2003-03-02T00:00:00 | 1592400019 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/162197-1 |
181230-1 | Nicholas Capaldi | John Stuart Mill: A Biography | —from the publisher's website Nicholas Capaldi’s biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill’s many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill’s contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of educati... | 2004-04-04T00:00:00 | 0521620244 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/181230-1 |
14122-1 | Janette Dates | Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media | Dean Dates discussed race relations in America and the coverage of racial issues in the media. She is co-editor of the book, Split Image: African Americans in the Media, published by Howard University Press. Dean Dates spearheaded the compilation of this book to provide a more balanced historical view of the African Am... | 1990-09-23T00:00:00 | 0882581791 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/14122-1 |
114491-1 | Melissa Muller | Anne Frank: The Biography | One of this book's great strengths is writer Melissa Müller's ability to situate Anne Frank's famous diary within a larger historical and biographical context—more than half of it covers the years before the Franks went into hiding. Equally important is her discovery of the existence of five pages Otto Frank removed fr... | 1998-11-29T00:00:00 | 0805059970 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/114491-1 |
164644-1 | Jay Winik | April 1865: The Month That Saved America | April 1865 was a month that could have unraveled the nation. Instead, it saved it. Here Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history, filled with rich profiles of ... | 2001-07-29T00:00:00 | 0060187239 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/164644-1 |
98739-1 | John Lukacs | The Hitler of History | In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers. Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich.... | 1998-03-01T00:00:00 | 0375701133 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/98739-1 |
172900-1 | Frank Williams | Judging Lincoln | —from the publisher's website Judging Lincoln collects nine of the most insightful essays on the topic of the sixteenth president as written over the past twenty years by Frank J. Williams, chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and one of the nation’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln. For Judge Williams... | 2002-11-10T00:00:00 | 0809323915 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/172900-1 |
177888-1 | David Von Drehle | Triangle: The Fire That Changed America | —from the publisher's website On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it had spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren't tall... | 2003-10-05T00:00:00 | 0871138743 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/177888-1 |
183797-1 | Winslow Wheeler | The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security | —from the publisher's website In this damning exposé, a veteran senate defense advisor argues that since Sept. 11, 2001, the conduct of the U.S. Congress has sunk to new depths and endangered the nation’s security. Winslow Wheeler draws on three decades of work with four prominent senators to tell in lively detail how ... | 2004-11-07T00:00:00 | 159114938X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/183797-1 |
59608-1 | Irving Bartlett | John C. Calhoun: A Biography | Professor Bartlett talked about his book, John C. Calhoun: A Biography, which focuses on the life of this controversial politician from South Carolina, who also served as vice president during Andrew Jackson's administration. His particular area of study is how ideas influence American political culture. | 1994-09-18T00:00:00 | 0393034763 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/59608-1 |
159435-1 | Rick Bragg | Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg | In this collection of more than 60 of his published articles from the New York Times and elsewhere, Bragg relates stories that made headlines everywhere, such as the Oklahoma City bombing or the Susan Smith murder/kidnapping scandal, but he also tells stories of people who live beneath the media's radar, such a graveya... | 2000-10-15T00:00:00 | 0817310274 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/159435-1 |
182450-1 | John McCain | Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life | —from the publisher's website “Courage,” Winston Churchill explained, is “the ?rst of human qualities . . . because it guarantees all the others.” As a naval officer, P.O.W., and one of America’s most admired political leaders, John McCain has seen countless acts of bravery and self-sacrifice. Now, in this inspiring me... | 2004-08-01T00:00:00 | 1400060303 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/182450-1 |
159445-1 | Gretchen Rubin | Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life | —from the publisher's website Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. Like no other portrait of its f... | 2003-08-10T00:00:00 | 0345450477 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/159445-1 |
152830-1 | Winston Churchill | The Great Republic: A History of America | The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War, edited by his grandson, the historian and journalist Winston S. Churchill. The book is a magnificent retelling of the American story, including some of the best... | 1999-11-28T00:00:00 | 0375754407 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/152830-1 |
157235-1 | Joyce Appleby | Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans | Appleby presents a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who were born after the Revolution—the first generation to inherit a truly new world. —from the publisher's website | 2000-06-18T00:00:00 | 0674006631 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/157235-1 |
117774-1 | Frances FitzGerald | Reporting Vietnam | In the last few years, with the publication of such books as Jacques Leslie's The Mark and William Prochnau's Once Upon a Distant War , historians and former correspondents have been examining closely the role of journalism in the conduct of the Vietnam War. The two volumes of Reporting Vietnam offer a trove of materia... | 1999-01-31T00:00:00 | 1883011582 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/117774-1 |
165238-1 | Ted Yeatman | Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend | To some he was a Robin Hood, a mythic figure of righteous retribution. To others he was the devil incarnate, a bloodthirsty hooligan and cold-blooded killer. The disparity between these views of the outlaw Jesse James is often attributed to an almost invisible link between marauding Missouri guerrilla bands of the Civi... | 2001-10-28T00:00:00 | 1581820801 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/165238-1 |
167904-1 | R. Kent Newmyer | John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court | John Marshall (1755-1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government. His great opinions in cases like Marb... | 2002-02-24T00:00:00 | 0807127019 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/167904-1 |
75273-1 | Paul Hendrickson | The Living and the Dead | In his book, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Mr. Hendrickson examines the impact of U.S. government actions on the lives of five people, particularly that of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. In this biography of McNamara, Hendrickson asks how McNama... | 1996-10-27T00:00:00 | 0679427619 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/75273-1 |
75932-1 | Conor Cruise O'Brien | The Long Affair | Mr. O'Brien talked about his book, "The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800," published by the University of Chicago Press. He talked about Jefferson's strong commitment to democracy at any price as evidenced by his unflinching support of the excesses of the French Revolution and his stan... | 1996-11-17T00:00:00 | 0226616533 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/75932-1 |
73706-1 | Drew Gilpin Faust | Mothers of Invention | Ms. Gilpin talked about her new book, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, published by University of North Carolina Press. It examines how Southern white women's roles changed as the men were away at the front and how these new roles permanently altered these women's views o... | 1996-09-01T00:00:00 | 0807822558 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/73706-1 |
7277-1 | Susan Moeller | Shooting War | Susan Moeller discusses the impact of photojournalism on the coverage of war in her book, "Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat." The Spanish-American War is presented as the first case in which photographs brought the reality of war home to Americans. Subsequent conflicts involving America a... | 1989-04-23T00:00:00 | 0465077773 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/7277-1 |
47389-1 | Molly Moore | A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines | Molly Moore discussed her novel, "A Woman at War," which describes her experiences during the Persian Gulf War. She was a Washington Post war correspondent present in the Gulf. Topics included the events of the war, military censorship of news reports, and public perception of the war. | 1993-07-18T00:00:00 | 068419418X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/47389-1 |
8481-1 | Bruce Murray | Journey Into Space | Bruce Murray's book, "Journey Into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration," follows the history of the space program. He talked about the impact of politicians and famous space scientists on space exploration. He also explained the relationship of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with Cal Tech, where he ... | 1989-08-20T00:00:00 | 0393307034 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/8481-1 |
168797-1 | Leonard Downie Jr., Co-Author | The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril | From two of America’s most prominent and accomplished journalists, an impassioned investigation of an endangered species, good journalism. Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser both reporters and editors at the Washington Post for nearly four decades take us inside the American news media to reveal why the journalism... | 2002-04-07T00:00:00 | 0375408746 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/168797-1 |
181639-1 | Eric Lax | The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle | —from the publisher's website The untold story of the discovery of the first wonder drug, the men who led the way, and how it changed the modern world The discovery of penicillin in 1928 ushered in a new age in medicine. But it took a team of Oxford scientists headed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain four more years to ... | 2004-05-02T00:00:00 | 0805077782 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/181639-1 |
181244-1 | Martin Marty | Martin Luther | —from the publisher's website Martin Marty—professor, author, pastor, historian, and journalist—is, in Bill Moyers’s words, “the most influential interpreter of American religion.” In Martin Luther this man of unswerving faith, rooted in his own Lutheran tradition yet deeply committed to helping enrich a pluralist soci... | 2004-04-11T00:00:00 | 0670032727 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/181244-1 |
56059-1 | Pete Hamill | A Drinking Life: A Memoir | Mr. Hamill talked about his book, A Drinking Life: A Memoir, published by Little Brown, which documents his life and his journey to sobriety. He also talked about the death of several friends as a result of self-destructive lifestyles. | 1994-05-29T00:00:00 | 0316341029 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/56059-1 |
72899-1 | Albert Murray | Blue Devils of Nada | Albert Murray talked about his book, "The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement," published by Pantheon. It is a collection of essays on the creative process through which various forms of art are created. He also described the milieu which gives American culture its distinctively... | 1996-06-16T00:00:00 | 0679442138 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/72899-1 |
151235-1 | Richard Gephardt | An Even Better Place: America in the 21st Century | Considering his thirty-year career in public life, Representative Richard Gephardt, a leader of the Democrats and a possible presidential contender, is little known. This book will change that. In the spirit of Al Gore's Earth in the Balance and Bill Bradley's Time Present, Time Past , Gephardt's book is intended to pr... | 1999-08-01T00:00:00 | 1891620169 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/151235-1 |
12086-1 | Robert Caro | Means of Ascent | Mr. Caro discussed his book The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent, published by Knopf. He described his research into the life of Lyndon Johnson and noted that he examined approximately 629,000 pages of documents from the Johnson Presidential Library. He spoke about his work, discussing his experience as a newsp... | 1990-04-29T00:00:00 | 0394528352 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/12086-1 |
179312-1 | Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) | Like No Other Time | —from the publisher's website Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s history. The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the e... | 2003-11-30T00:00:00 | 1400049555 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/179312-1 |
159434-1 | Diane Ravitch | Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms | For the past one hundred years, Americans have argued and worried about the quality of their schools. Some have charged that students were not learning enough, while others have complained that the schools were not in the forefront of social progress. In this authoritative history of education in the twentieth century,... | 2000-10-08T00:00:00 | 0684844176 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/159434-1 |
37708-1 | Robert Gilbert | The Mortal Presidency | Mr. Gilbert talked about his new book The Mortal Presidency, which looks at five U. S. presidents and their medical histories. He described various types of illnesses that afflicted these former presidents. He also proposed the idea that many of these illnesses were caused by the rigors of the office of president. | 1993-01-24T00:00:00 | 0823218376 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/37708-1 |
30839-1 | Robert Donovan | Unsilent Revolution: Television News & American Life | Mr. Donovan and Mr. Scherer discussed their book, Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, published by Cambridge University Press, and its main themes. They each commented on their personal experiences with the media. They also described the impact television has had on the American public. They ... | 1992-08-09T00:00:00 | 0521428629 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/30839-1 |
26896-1 | William Rehnquist | Grand Inquests | Chief Justice Rehnquist described a little history of the U.S. Supreme Court in his book, "Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson," published by William Morrow and Company. The book details the impeachment hearings of Justice Samuel Chase of the United States Supr... | 1992-07-05T00:00:00 | 0306706202 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/26896-1 |
181452-1 | Christopher Benson | Death of Innocence | —from the publisher's website There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother ... | 2004-04-25T00:00:00 | 0812970470 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/181452-1 |
61272-1 | Milton Friedman | 50th Anniversary Edition of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom | Milton Friedman discussed F.A. Hayek's book, The Road to Serfdom. Professor Friedman, who wrote the introduction to the 50th Anniversary edition of the book, described its effect on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century. He discussed the book's influence on the rise of socialism after... | 1994-11-20T00:00:00 | 0226320596 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/61272-1 |
8950-1 | Walter Laqueur | The Long Road to Freedom: Russia & Glasnost | null | 1989-09-03T00:00:00 | 0684190303 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/8950-1 |
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