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35197-1 | Charles Sykes | A Nation of Victims | Charles Sykes discussed the ideas behind his book, "A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character," published by St. Martin's Press. He said the main concept of his book involves the increasing decline of personal responsibility and the use of alibis and blame for personal advancement in American society. He... | 1992-11-29T00:00:00 | 0312098820 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/35197-1 |
78480-1 | Sarah Gordon | Passage to Union | Sarah Gordon was interviewed about her book, Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929, published by Ivan R. Dee. The book chronicles the history of the first 100 years of the American railroad system. Ms. Gordon detailed the effect train travel had on the rural economy and the lives of o... | 1997-03-09T00:00:00 | 1566631386 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/78480-1 |
156370-1 | David Wise | Cassidy's Run: The Street Spy War Over Nerve Gas | More than a cloak-and-dagger tale, Cassidy's Run is the heartwarming story of one ordinary man, Sergeant Joe Cassidy, not trained as a spy but who suddenly found himself the FBI's secret weapon in a dangerous secret war of photos. —from the publisher's website | 2000-05-07T00:00:00 | 0375501533 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/156370-1 |
60458-1 | Harry Jaffe | Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. | The authors discussed their book, Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of DC, published by Simon and Schuster. They focused on former Washington, DC Mayor Marion Barry, his rise to political power, his arrest by the black chief of police, and his current campaign to recover the mayorship. They also described Washin... | 1994-10-02T00:00:00 | 0671768468 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/60458-1 |
55946-1 | James McPherson | What They Fought For, 1861-1865 | James McPherson discussed his book "What They Fought For, 1861-1865," an examination of the people who fought in the U.S. Civil War. He wrote the book after years of teaching U.S. History at Princeton University. | 1994-05-22T00:00:00 | 0385476345 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/55946-1 |
69336-1 | Johanna Neuman | Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics? | Johanna Neuman discussed her book, "Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?," published by St. Martin's Press. She concluded that new forms of media do not drive diplomacy. She covers the history of new media technology such as the telegraph, which always causes the diplomatic corps to ... | 1996-03-10T00:00:00 | 0312140045 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/69336-1 |
15191-1 | Cpt. Carol Barkalow | In the Men's House | Captain Barkalow, one of the first women accepted into the U.S. Military Academy, described her experiences in In the Men's House: An Inside Account of Life in the Army by One of West Point's First Female Graduates. Captain Barkalow also includes in her book information from over 60 interviews of both male and female c... | 1990-12-02T00:00:00 | 0425132692 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/15191-1 |
163925-1 | Edward Said | Reflections on Exile and Other Essays | With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983, reconfirms what no one ca... | 2001-06-17T00:00:00 | 0674003020 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/163925-1 |
181421-1 | John McCaslin | Inside the Beltway | —from the publisher's website Washington Times columnist, John McCaslin, brings his unique and successful column to a full-length format in this collection of Washington’s funniest, strangest, and most touching stories. For more than a decade, John McCaslin has covered the Beltway beat for the Washington Times , in his... | 2004-10-17T00:00:00 | 0785261915 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/181421-1 |
160555-2 | Kurt Eichenwald | The Informant: A True Story. Part 2 | From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most politically powerful corporati... | 2001-02-11T00:00:00 | 0767903269 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/160555-2 |
169169-1 | Michael Novak | On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding | "The leaders of the American Revolution were not, like the leaders of the French revolution, secularists. They did not set out to erase religion. Quite the opposite." Michael Novak points out in this brilliant book about the birth of the American idea that the very first act of the Continental Congress in September, 17... | 2002-03-17T00:00:00 | 1893554341 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/169169-1 |
158908-1 | Michael Paterniti | Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | Albert Einstein's brain floats in formaldehyde in a Tupperware® bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is Michael Paterniti, a young journalist from Maine. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey who performed the autops... | 2000-09-24T00:00:00 | 0385333005 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/158908-1 |
179914-1 | Kenneth Silverman | Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse | —from the publisher's website In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the most illustrious American of his age.” Silverman presents Samuel Morse in all his complexity.... | 2004-02-22T00:00:00 | 0375401288 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/179914-1 |
151353-1 | Leslie Chang | Beyond the Narrow Gate | An epic of four Chinese women and their journey from East to West. When the Communists took over mainland China, among the many that were forced to flee their homeland were four remarkable women. Arriving in Taiwan in 1948, Dolores, Suzanne, Margaret, and Mary met at the elite First Girls School, the "narrow gate" wher... | 1999-09-05T00:00:00 | 0525942572 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/151353-1 |
69707-1 | H.W. Brands | The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s | Mr. Brands talked about his book, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s, published by St. Martin's Press . He characterized the decade as dealing with the end of the U.S. frontier West and looking forward to a new century, and in which populism was in conflict with political elitism. He described individuals such a... | 1996-02-25T00:00:00 | 0312135947 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/69707-1 |
112659-1 | Charles Lewis | The Buying of the Congress | A startling and groundbreaking expose, The Buying of the Congress details the ways in which special interests worm themselves into the lives of Capitol Hill lawmakers—who in turn protect polluters, cigarette manufacturers, food producers, the airline industry, the insurance industry, corporate tax cheats, and other big... | 1998-11-01T00:00:00 | 0380975963 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/112659-1 |
170827-1 | Sandra Mackey | The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein | Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein is high on America's enemies list but does an Iraq without him hold the seeds of the next Yugoslavia? To the dismay of many in the West, the Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control, still defiant, and more determined to use any means of striking back. How... | 2002-07-07T00:00:00 | 0393051412 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/170827-1 |
72745-1 | Ted Sorensen | Why I Am a Democrat | Ted Soreson discussed his book, "Why I Am a Democrat," published by Henry Holt and Company. The book focuses on the Democratic Party's basic principles on several public policy issues and how these differ with Republican principles. He also talked about why people should still be proud to be true Democrats in an age se... | 1996-07-14T00:00:00 | 0805044140 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/72745-1 |
166458-1 | Midge Decter | An Old Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War | "What has happened to me over the course of the past seven decades has in one way or another happened to many if not all present-day American women—from the almost dizzyingly rapid ringing of changes to the discover of that in our lives which is never changing." This beautifully written book offers a memorable chronicl... | 2001-10-07T00:00:00 | 0060394285 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/166458-1 |
60408-1 | Nicholas Kristof | China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power | The authors discussed their book, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power," published by Times Books. The husband-and-wife team were formerly based in Beijing, China, and this book is a result of their experiences there. The book details Ms. WuDunn's visit to the village of her immigrant grandfather a... | 1994-10-16T00:00:00 | 1857881583 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/60408-1 |
163061-1 | Don Hewitt | Tell Me A Story: 50 years and 60 Minutes in Television | One of the towering figures of television recounts his adventures in broadcast journalism, from TV's earliest days through the controversies and challenges that face the news business today. Don Hewitt is the most successful producer in the history of television news. In more than a half century with CBS News, he has b... | 2001-04-01T00:00:00 | 1586480170 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/163061-1 |
14257-1 | Tim Weiner | Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget | Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize winning Washington correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, discussed his book, "Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget." The work is an historical review and critique of the nation's skyrocketing military spending through the Pentagon's "black" or secret budget. In 1990, this budget re... | 1990-10-21T00:00:00 | 0446392758 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/14257-1 |
95193-1 | Jim Hightower | There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos | With his unique progressive populism, Jim Hightower addresses the problems of the disenfranchised and working-class as they are pitted against the interests of the corporate elite. Consistent in his assessments of the American political structure and society, Hightower's views are certain to spark a national debate reg... | 1997-12-21T00:00:00 | 0060187662 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/95193-1 |
63955-1 | Alvin Toffler | Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave | The authors discussed their book, "Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave," published by Turner Publishing. The husband-and-wife team have written many books together that focus on the changes in a society. The book focuses on the political elites and the change from a second wave to a third wave. ... | 1995-04-16T00:00:00 | 1570362238 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/63955-1 |
7302-1 | Henry Brandon | Special Relationships: A Foreign Correspondent's Memoirs | The Chief Washington correpondent of the London Sunday Times and author of Special Relationships: A Foreign Correspondent's Memoirs, Henry Brandon, recounts his 34 year experience in the city. Highlighted are recollections of Presidents ranging from Roosevelt to Reagan and a detailed analysis of the Cuban missile crisi... | 1989-04-30T00:00:00 | 0689115881 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/7302-1 |
19109-1 | Michael Beschloss | The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 | Mr. Beschloss provided a history of the relations between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and its impact on the Cold War. Beschloss, a Chicago native, did his undergraduate work at Williams College and received his graduate degree from Harvard University. He was allowed to obtain new infor... | 1991-07-14T00:00:00 | 0060164549 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/19109-1 |
68744-1 | Lance Banning | The Sacred Fire of Liberty | Professor Banning discussed his book, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, published by Cornell University Press. The book is a biography of President James Madison from 1780, when he entered the federation Congress at age 29, through the end of 1792. | 1996-02-11T00:00:00 | 0801431522 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/68744-1 |
161211-1 | Dinesh D'Souza | The Virtue of Prosperity | We live in an era of unprecedented prosperity. The United States has created the first mass affluent class in world history, and most of us are more successful than we ever dreamed we could be. New technologies have given us extraordinary abilities to communicate and share information, and also godlike power over natur... | 2001-01-14T00:00:00 | 0684868148 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/161211-1 |
52741-1 | Margaret Thatcher | The Downing Street Years | Margaret Thatcher discussed her book, "The Downing Street Years," published by Harper Collins. This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventua... | 1993-12-05T00:00:00 | 0340258977 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/52741-1 |
79680-1 | Leonard Garment | Crazy Rhythm | Mr. Garment talked about his book, Crazy Rhythm: My Journey from Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate and Beyond, published by Times Books. He reminisced about his 30-year friendship with Richard Nixon. His book is a memoir of his unusual life, from his early years as saxophonist for Billie... | 1997-04-20T00:00:00 | 0812928873 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/79680-1 |
17444-1 | Tom Wicker | One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream | Tom Wicker discussed his book, "One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream." He wrote the book in an attempt to explain how other presidents have faced more serious problems than Nixon did, but were still more accepted by the public. For instance, he compares Nixon's Watergate scandal to Reagan's Iran-Contra affai... | 1991-04-07T00:00:00 | 0394550668 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/17444-1 |
44365-1 | Joel Krieger | The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World | Joel Krieger discussed his book, "The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World," which is "an effort to put into one volume a whole host of interpretations and information about an area of on-going concern ..." The book deals with domestic and international affairs throughout the world, and attempts to reconcile world... | 1993-07-04T00:00:00 | 0195117395 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/44365-1 |
58661-1 | Colman McCarthy | All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence | Mr. McCarthy spoke about his new book All of One Peace: Essays on Non-Violence which outlines his views on being a pacifist in a military society. The book includes several "massacres" including the Persian Gulf War, the U.S. invasion of Panama, the U.S. invasion of Grenada, and the U.S. bombing of Tripoli, Lebanon. He... | 1994-07-31T00:00:00 | 0813520975 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/58661-1 |
55778-1 | Andrew Young | A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young | Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young discussed his book "A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young," published by Thomas Nelson. It is an autobiographical work that highlights his time as a civil rights leader and his religious feelings. The author discussed what led him to the ministry, marching with Mar... | 1994-04-03T00:00:00 | 0840769989 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/55778-1 |
52323-1 | Herbert Block | Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life | Mr. Block discussed his book Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life published by Macmillan Publishing Co. He has been a political cartoonist since the Roosevelt administration and has enjoyed drawing caricatures since grade school. | 1993-11-14T00:00:00 | 0812930541 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/52323-1 |
165360-1 | Hampton Sides | Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission | A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had ... | 2001-09-30T00:00:00 | 0385495641 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/165360-1 |
183137-1 | John Ferling | Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 | —from the publisher's website It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock ... | 2004-10-03T00:00:00 | 0195167716 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/183137-1 |
18135-1 | Robert Reich | The Work of Nations: 21st Century Capitalism | Professor Reich, former staff member of the Ford and Carter administrations, discussed his book The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism. He discussed recent changes in national economic and industrial systems around the world and the effects of increasing industrial globalization of industr... | 1991-05-26T00:00:00 | 0679736158 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/18135-1 |
177827-1 | Eric Rauchway | Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America | —from the publisher's website How an assassin, a dead President, and Theodore Roosevelt defined the Progressive Era. When President McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist wit... | 2003-09-21T00:00:00 | 0809071703 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/177827-1 |
163566-1 | John Farrell | Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century | The definitive biography of Thomas Philip Tip O'Neill, the greatest post-War Speaker of the House, and the rise and decline of Democratic politics from an award-winning political reporter. To read John A. Farrell's account of Tip O'Neill is to take a walk through the greatest moments of post-World War II American polit... | 2001-05-20T00:00:00 | 0316260495 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/163566-1 |
61059-1 | Liz Carpenter | Unplanned Parenthood | The author discussed her book Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventysomething Surrogate Mother, published by Random House. The book focuses on Ms. Carpenter's experiences raising her three teenage nieces and nephews at age seventy-nine. She also discussed her years in the White House working as press secret... | 1994-10-23T00:00:00 | 0679427988 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/61059-1 |
123099-1 | Joseph Stevens | 1863: Rebirth of a Nation | American history has never seen a more tumultuous or more significant year than 1863. During this crucial time the tide of the Civil War turned inexorably from the Confederacy to the Union, with momentous consequences that are still being felt today. It was a year of upheaval unparalleled in our national experience: tw... | 1999-06-13T00:00:00 | 0553103148 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/123099-1 |
161212-1 | Robert Scigliano | The Federalist Papers | The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers ... | 2001-01-21T00:00:00 | 0679603255 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/161212-1 |
182064-1 | Thomas Barnett | The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century | —from the publisher's website A groundbreaking reexamination of U.S. and global security, certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year. Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly "chaotic" world act... | 2004-05-30T00:00:00 | 0399151753 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/182064-1 |
76689-1 | David Denby | David Denby "Great Books" | Mr. Denby discussed his book, Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World, published by Simon and Schuster. Mr. Denby attended courses on Western civilization at Columbia University in 1991, thirty years after he first studied there, in preparation for th... | 1996-12-22T00:00:00 | 0684809753 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/76689-1 |
25368-1 | Robert Remini | Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union | Professor Remini talked about his published book, "Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union," published by W.W. Norton. The book focuses on the life and career of Henry Clay, the famous orator from Kentucky, who served as Speaker of the House for ten years in the early nineteenth century. He made the Speaker's office one of... | 1992-05-05T00:00:00 | 0393310884 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/25368-1 |
151209-1 | Mark Pendergrast | Uncommon Grounds | From its discovery on an ancient Ethiopian hillside to its role as millennial elixir in the Age of Starbucks, coffee has dominated and molded the economies, politics, and social structures of entire countries. The second most valuable exported legal commodity on earth, coffee delivers the largest jolt of the world's mo... | 1999-08-29T00:00:00 | 0465036317 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/151209-1 |
67215-1 | Nicholas Basbanes | A Gentle Madness | Mr. Basbanes talked about his recent book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books, published by Henry Holt and Company. The book focuses on the history of book collecting and preserving over the past 2500 years. It also covers the book collecting culture, including rare book buyin... | 1995-10-15T00:00:00 | 0805036539 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/67215-1 |
81017-1 | Walter McDougall | Promised Land, Crusader State | From The Federalist Papers and Alexis de Toqueville to Freud and Clint Eastwood, there has been a connection between U.S. foreign policy and American attitudes, principles, and language. In PROMISED LAND, CRUSADER STATE: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall... | 1997-06-15T00:00:00 | 0395830850 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/81017-1 |
61995-1 | Robert Wright | The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are | Robert Wright discussed his book, "The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology." The book focuses on a new way of understanding the evolution of human nature by looking at how animals evolved through natural selection. | 1995-01-08T00:00:00 | 0679763996 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/61995-1 |
11450-1 | Frederick Kempe | Divorcing the Dictator | In Kempe's book, "Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affairs with Noriega," his theme is that the U.S. started the relationship in 1960 without thinking of the consequences. "The United States created the problem that we later had to correct with an invasion." He discussed researching Noriega's early childhood a... | 1990-03-11T00:00:00 | 0399135170 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/11450-1 |
55945-1 | Forrest McDonald | The American Presidency: An Intellectual History | Forrest McDonald is widely recognized as one of our most respected and challenging commentators on the Constitution and the American founding. Writing at the height of his powers as an intellectual historian, he now applies his considerable talents to a study of another venerable institution--the American presidency. M... | 1994-05-15T00:00:00 | 0700606521 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/55945-1 |
80193-1 | Richard Bernstein | The Coming Conflict with China | Mr. Bernstein talked about the book which he co-authored with Ross Munro titled The Coming Conflict with China, published by Knopf. It examines the increasing frictions between the U.S. and China on a broad variety of issues, including security, trade and human rights, and the likelihood that China will be the next maj... | 1997-05-11T00:00:00 | 0679454632 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/80193-1 |
176665-1 | Paul Berman | Terror and Liberalism | —from the publisher's website A manifesto for an aggressive liberal response to terrorist attacks. Paul Berman is one of our most brilliant writers on the impassioned and unpredictable life of ideas especially the doctrines that lead masses of people to try to change the world. The Terror War is nothing new or unpreced... | 2003-06-22T00:00:00 | 0393057755 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/176665-1 |
174388-1 | Margaret MacMillan | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World | —from the publisher's website Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people ... | 2002-12-29T00:00:00 | 0375508260 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/174388-1 |
92609-1 | David Gelernter | Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber | For many of us, an appreciation for life—a commitment to drawing it in our own image—does not begin until we are confronted with loss or, as David Gelernter was, our own death. Gelernter is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale, well-known for his skepticism about computers and his anti-technology musings.... | 1997-11-16T00:00:00 | 0684839121 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/92609-1 |
62271-1 | Peter Robinson | Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA | Mr. Robinson discussed his recent book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an M.B.A., published by Warner Books. The book deals with the author's experiences during his first year at the Stanford School of Business. He described himself as a "poet," or a business student with little quantitative background. He also disc... | 1994-12-18T00:00:00 | 9780446517867 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/62271-1 |
80382-1 | Anne Matthews | Bright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today | Ms. Matthews talked about her new book, Bright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today, published by Simon and Schuster. In the book, she attempts to answer some basic questions the public has about college campuses today such as what college is for and what is going on inside U.S. colleges and universities, in... | 1997-05-18T00:00:00 | 0226510921 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/80382-1 |
68953-1 | Colin Powell | My American Journey | Colin Powell talked about his book, "My American Journey," published by Random House, which chronicles his life, including his military service in Vietnam and the Gulf War and the rebuilding effort between the two conflicts. He also talked about the process of writing, including his cooperation with Joseph E. Persico, ... | 1996-01-07T00:00:00 | 0679432965 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/68953-1 |
10427-1 | Marvin Kitman | The Making of the President 1789 | George Washington was said to be "First in War, First in Peace." In The Making of the President 1789 , humorist Marvin Kitman argues that our first president was also the first American leader to ride his personal foibles to political greatness. Kitman lampoons the modern "campaign insider" books, asking: "How is it po... | 1989-12-11T00:00:00 | 0802137350 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/10427-1 |
174896-1 | Bernard Bailyn | To Begin the World Anew | —from the publisher's website With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements. Using visual documentation portraits, arch... | 2003-03-23T00:00:00 | 0375713085 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/174896-1 |
157020-1 | Zachary Karabell | The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election | Zachary Karabell tells the fascinating story of all four campaigns. We see how Truman's staff developed a superb reelection plan that ignored the South and concentrated on the farm vote—a scheme that would give birth to Truman's historic "whistle-stop" tour of the nation's heartland. We learn how Dewey nearly lost the ... | 2000-06-04T00:00:00 | 0375400869 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/157020-1 |
68174-1 | James Baker | The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992 | Former Secretary James Baker talked about his book, “The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War, and Peace, 1989-1992,” published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. It's an account of Mr. Baker's time as the 61st Secretary of State from January 1989 to August 1992 under President George H.W. Bush. During that time, the world saw t... | 1995-12-03T00:00:00 | 0399140875 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/68174-1 |
169045-1 | Richard Lingeman | Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet | The critic Edmund Wilson called Sinclair Lewis one of the national poets. In the 1920s, Lewis fired off a fusillade of sensational novels, exploding American shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and photographic realism. With an unerring eye for the American scene and an omnivorous ear for American talk, h... | 2002-03-10T00:00:00 | 0679438238 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/169045-1 |
158187-1 | Lerone Bennett | Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream | Mr. Bennett discussed his book, "Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream," published by Johnson Publishing. The author argued that President Lincoln was a racist whose political mentor was Senator Henry Clay, a Kentucky slave owner. He also showed that Lincoln always supported the fugitive slave laws, among ot... | 2000-09-10T00:00:00 | 0874850851 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/158187-1 |
38742-1 | Paul Kennedy | Preparing for the 21st Century | Paul Kennedy, author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," discussed his research behind his book, "Preparing for the 21st Century" published by Random House. The book covers trends in the economic, cultural, and political sphere for countries around the world entering the next century. | 1993-03-13T00:00:00 | 0679747052 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/38742-1 |
59638-1 | John Leo | Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police | John Leo talked about his book, "Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police." This book, a collection of his columns from U.S. News and World Report, deals with the origins and agenda of so-called "political correctness," its aspects of racism, censorship, and its detrimental effects, including repression and division, espe... | 1994-08-28T00:00:00 | 076580400X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/59638-1 |
37209-1 | P.F. Bentley | Clinton: Portrait of Victory | Photographer P.F. Bentley discussed his book, Clinton: Portrait of Victory, published by Warner Books, a photographic essay of the Clinton presidential campaign and ultimate victory. He discussed his access to candidate Clinton and his personal experiences accompanying the campaign and showed many of his photographs fr... | 1993-01-17T00:00:00 | 0446517585 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/37209-1 |
63298-1 | Philip Howard | The Death of Common Sense | Mr. Howard discussed his recent book, The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America, published by Random House, which describes a plethora of nonsensical laws and regulations that are overwhelming American society. He emphasized that the idea of "rights" as we define it today, in reference to such groups as... | 1995-02-12T00:00:00 | 0446672289 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/63298-1 |
63449-1 | Neil Baldwin | Edison: Inventing the Century | Neil Baldwin discussed his book, “Edison: Inventing the Century,” published by Hyperion. The book focuses on the life of inventor Thomas Alva Edison and reveals how Edison raised doubts about the nature and value of technology that remain with us today. | 1995-03-19T00:00:00 | 0786881194 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/63449-1 |
173967-1 | Hugh Price | Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible | —from the publisher's website There's a crisis in our classrooms. In virtually every school district across America, African American children achieve at lower levels, earn lousier test scores, are placed more frequently into special education or remedial and less challenging classes, and are discouraged from striving ... | 2003-01-05T00:00:00 | 0758201192 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/173967-1 |
55948-1 | Sam Roberts | Who We Are: A Portrait of America | Sam Roberts discussed his book, "Who We Are: A Portrait of America," an examination of commonly-held myths about America. The book offers a view of America--where and how we live, income levels, how we're aging--based on the statistics of the 1990 census. According to Mr. Roberts, the numbers reveal that America has un... | 1994-06-19T00:00:00 | 0812921925 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/55948-1 |
114805-1 | William Greider | Fortress America: The American Military & the Consequences of Peace | "The U.S. military-industrial complex, as we have known it, is in the process of devouring itself, literally and tangibly. The awesome interlocking structure of armed forces, industrial interests, and political alliances that has sprawled across American public life and purpose for two generations cannot endure for lon... | 1998-12-13T00:00:00 | 1891620096 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/114805-1 |
59241-1 | Hugh Pearson | The Shadow of the Panther | Hugh Pearson talked about his book "The Shadow of the Panther," a history of the Black Panther movement founded by Huey Newton. He described the impact of the movement on current African-American political movements. | 1994-08-21T00:00:00 | 0201483416 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/59241-1 |
64863-1 | Norman Mailer | Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery | Mr. Mailer discussed his book, "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery," published by Random House. It examines the life of Lee Harvey Oswald after he defected to the Soviet Union at the age of nineteen. It provides a wider view on the absurdity of the Cold War through the eyes of this man who became disillusioned with bot... | 1995-06-25T00:00:00 | 0345404378 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/64863-1 |
179807-1 | John Dean | Warren G. Harding | —from the publisher's website President Nixon’s former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandal Warren G. Harding may be best known as America’s worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous revelation of a... | 2004-03-14T00:00:00 | 0805069569 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/179807-1 |
12729-1 | Judith Miller | One, By One, By One: Facing the Holocaust | In "One, By One, By One," Judith Miller examines how people preserve or distort the memories of the Holocaust. Ms. Miller examines contemporary attitudes about the Holocaust in six countries- the United States, Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, and the Soviet Union. | 1990-06-17T00:00:00 | 0671644726 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/12729-1 |
64668-1 | Linn Washington | Black Judges on Justice | Linn Washington, former assistant to Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Nix, discussed his book, "Black Judges on Justice," published by The New Press. A journalist, he described his book as a look at 14 determined, intellectual black people who worked their way up to judicial positions. He point out that ... | 1995-05-21T00:00:00 | 1565844378 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/64668-1 |
68514-1 | Dennis Prager | Think a Second Time | Dennis Prager talked about his book, "Think a Second Time," published by Harper Collins. The book is a collection of 43 essays from his quarterly journal entitled Ultimate Issues over the past ten years. He also talked about his Jewish heritage and his perspectives on various issues. He also talked about his career as ... | 1996-02-04T00:00:00 | 069451604X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/68514-1 |
122027-1 | Mary Soames | Winston & Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills | On the 125th anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth, his only surviving child brings us a rich and intimate portrait of a great leader, a heroic partnership, and a turbulent century. Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passi... | 1999-05-02T00:00:00 | 0395963192 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/122027-1 |
89415-1 | John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story | In this balmy hothouse of eccentrics and characters, John Berendt is as prominent as a live oak, a celebrated muse of the South often pointed out by tour guides as they inch by the best-selling author in horse-drawn carriages and air-conditioned minibuses. Tourists wave. Mr. Berendt smiles. And the buses and canopied c... | 1997-08-28T00:00:00 | 0679429220 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/89415-1 |
14015-1 | M. A. Farber | Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax | After Tawana Brawley, a fifteen-year-old girl, was found alive in a plastic garbage bag near Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and thought to be the victim of a vicious racial crime, six New York Times reporters decided to look more closely at the circumstances of the alleged crime. M.A. Farber, co-author, discussed the findings... | 1990-09-16T00:00:00 | 0553057561 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/14015-1 |
162636-1 | Roy Morris, Jr. | Fraud of the Century | —from the publisher's website In this major work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr., tells the extraordinary story of how, in America's centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety ... | 2003-04-06T00:00:00 | 0743223861 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/162636-1 |
10710-1 | Fitzhugh Green | George Bush: An Intimate Portrait | Fitzhugh Green discussed his recent biography George Bush: An Intimate Portrait. Mr. Green talked of the president's upbringing: his parents, his prep school days, and his college experience at Yale. He described Bush's naval career, where he was the youngest pilot in the U.S. Navy, and his business career in Texas. He... | 1990-01-21T00:00:00 | 0870527835 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/10710-1 |
68490-1 | Carlo D'Este | Patton: A Genius for War | Professor D'Este discussed his book, Patton: A Genius for War, published by Harper Collins. He said he was attempting to show how Patton's early life affected his career as an Army general in World War II. | 1996-01-28T00:00:00 | 0060927623 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/68490-1 |
79419-1 | Keith Richburg | Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa | Mr. Richburg talked about his new book, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, published by Basic Books. It focuses on his experiences during trips to Africa over the years and his futile search for African-American roots. Mr. Richburg was the Washington Post's Africa bureau chief. | 1997-04-06T00:00:00 | 0156005832 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/79419-1 |
11944-1 | Helmut Schmidt | Men and Powers: A political Retrospective | The former Chancellor of West Germany discussed his book concerning his years as a German politician, and now European leader. | 1990-04-15T00:00:00 | 0394569946 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/11944-1 |
168865-2 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Part 2) | —from the publisher's website The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Com... | 2003-04-27T00:00:00 | 0393051447 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/168865-2 |
20863-1 | E.J. Dionne, Jr | Why Americans Hate Politics | Mr. Dionne was raised in Fall River, Mass. and attended Harvard University. He did his doctorate study at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He worked for The New York Times, and later, for The Washington Post. His book Why Americans Hate Politics deals with apathy among the American electorate due to dissatisfaction with the... | 1991-08-25T00:00:00 | 0671778773 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/20863-1 |
10319-1 | James Reston Jr | The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally | Author James Reston takes a look at the life of Texas businessman and politician John Connally in The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally. As part of the interview he discusses his controversial theory of the Kennedy assassination being motivated by a grudge against John Connally by Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Connally was... | 1989-12-17T00:00:00 | 0060161965 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/10319-1 |
19482-1 | Alan Ehrenhalt | The United State of Ambition | Mr. Ehrenhalt discussed the changes in electoral politics in the previous thirty years. He said a new breed of professional politician has sprung up during the previous decades to replace the part-time politician or businessman who formerly occupied seats in local or state governments. The replacement for these people ... | 1991-07-21T00:00:00 | 0812918940 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/19482-1 |
13918-1 | Robert Dole | Historical Almanac of the United States Senate | Senator Dole (R-Kan.) discussed his book, Historical Almanac of the United States Senate, which is a compilation of speeches he made on the Senate floor during the 100th Congress. Over the two-year period, Dole gave hundreds of "Senate Bicentennial Minutes" describing the first 200 years of the Senate. This collection ... | 1990-09-09T00:00:00 | 0160064066 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/13918-1 |
39579-1 | Blanche Wiesen Cook | Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933 | Ms. Cook discussed her recent book Eleanor Roosevelt and the research she conducted. She described Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a politically active woman in a time when men were considered the only dominant forces for change. | 1993-04-11T00:00:00 | 0003658759 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/39579-1 |
54179-1 | William Chafe | Never Stop Running | Professor Chafe discussed his book f2Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American LiberalismfR, published by Basic Books, and the process he went through to get the book published. The book examines the life of Allard Lowenstein who was an influential liberal in the civil rights and anti-Viet... | 1994-01-30T00:00:00 | 0465049850 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/54179-1 |
37981-1 | Nathan Miller | Theodore Roosevelt: A Life | Mr. Miller discussed his biography of President Theodore Roosevelt entitled, "Theodore Roosevelt: A Life," published by William Morrow and Company. He spoke on his research into the former president, and recounted anecdotes on the colorful president's political career. | 1993-02-14T00:00:00 | 0688132200 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/37981-1 |
40065-1 | Lisa Belkin | First, Do No Harm | Ms. Belkin discussed her book, First Do No Harm, published by Simon and Schuster, which focuses on the procedures of hospitals in dealing with ethical issues such as allowing patients to die. Ms. Belkin spoke on her research for the book, which involved exploring the policy procedures of a modern hospital and the decis... | 1993-04-25T00:00:00 | 044922290X | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/40065-1 |
25989-1 | David Moore | The Superpollsters | Professor David Moore discussed the evolution and process of political polling in "The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America." He described how the public opinion polls are manipulated by political candidates and public opinion pollsters themselves to shape the progress of political ... | 1992-05-10T00:00:00 | 1568580231 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/25989-1 |
174516-1 | Warren Zimmermann | First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power | —from the publisher's website Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the United States became an imperial nation within five short years a century ago (1898-1903), exploding onto the international scene with the conquest of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, and (indirectly) ... | 2003-01-19T00:00:00 | 0374179395 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/174516-1 |
157755-1 | Jane Alexander | Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics | Full of amusing anecdotes and profiles of celebrities, this charming, opinionated, and wise memoir of Jane Alexander's tenure at the National Endowment of the Arts brings humor and human dimension to the politics of art and the art of politics. —from the publisher's website | 2000-08-13T00:00:00 | 1891620061 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/157755-1 |
157728-1 | Brooks Simpson | Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity | Simpson brings Grant's strange story to life in a biography that is readable, compelling, and definitive. —from the publisher's website | 2000-07-16T00:00:00 | 0395659949 | https://booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/157728-1 |
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