Book TV Schedule: September 1st - 4th (Yay! an extra day!)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: September 1-4
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Enjoy 3 Days of Book TV This Weekend
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Join us for three days of Book TV programming this holiday weekend, beginning Saturday, September 1, at 8 AM ET and running through Tuesday, September 4, at 8 AM ET. Each day starting at 8 AM ET we'll focus on a particular issue relevant in the news today:
Saturday: Military Intelligence
Sunday: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iraq War
Monday: Economic Issues


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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET

For those with strong stomachs...
Join us for a conversation with author Christopher Hitchens. Mr. Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. He is the author of over a dozen books including The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family, Why Orwell Matters and his latest, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

You can join this three-hour conversation by e-mailing your question to
[e-mail] or by calling in during the program: Democrats 202-737-0001, Republicans 202-737-0002, Independents 202-628-0205.



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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
Michael Duffy is co-author, with Nancy Gibbs, of a new biography of Rev. Billy Graham, counselor to every president from Harry Truman to George W. Bush. Mr. Duffy is assistant managing editor at Time magazine, where he has worked for over twenty years. He is also the author of Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush. He discusses his new book with Cox Newspapers' national correspondent Bob Deans, author of The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James.


Weekend Highlights
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Peter Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain: From Churchill to Princess Diana
In this Encore Booknotes from 2000, the author discusses his book with Brian Lamb. Mr. Hitchens believes the current generation of citizens is ignorant of Britain's past and the traditional standards of civility, faith and morality are in rapid decline. Mourning the loss of British reserve, he compares the behaviors exhibited during the funerals of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana. Mr. Hitchens also discusses his brother, writer Christopher Hitchens.
(Saturday 6 PM ET)

Roland Haas, Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
Roland Haas talks about his life as a CIA assassin. Recruited right out of college, Mr. Haas spent 30 years with the CIA and worked in many countries, including Germany, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. Mr. Haas is currently a senior intelligence officer with the US Army Reserve Command.
(Saturday 12:45 PM, Sunday 3:15 AM ET)

Scott Ritter, Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement
Scott Ritter is the author of several books, including Iraq Confidential, and served as a US Marine before becoming a weapons inspector for the United Nations. In his latest book, he argues that the antiwar movement in the U.S. should look to military strategists like Sun Tzu and John Boyd to help it end the Iraq War.
(Sunday 9 AM and 7 PM ET)

Kirsten Holmstedt, Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
In her book, Kirsten Holmstedt chronicles the lives of women serving in combat positions in Iraq. The author interviewed women from all branches of service and focused on the lives of 12 different women.
(Sunday 11 AM, Monday 6 AM ET)

Bruce Caldwell, The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents
Bruce Caldwell, editor of a new edition of F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, talks about the contents and impact of the book, originally published in 1944. Mr. Caldwell spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
(Monday 6 PM ET)




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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, September 1, 2007

8:00 AM 43 min Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA
Author: Rowan Scarborough

8:45 AM 13 min BTV BUS Vignette: Gebert, Konstanty

8:55 AM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Author: Rep. Mazie Hirono

9:00 AM 1 hr, 21 min Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA
Author: John Prados

10:20 AM 7 min 2007 BookExpo America: Harcourt
Author: Michelle Blakenship

10:30 AM 1 hr, 12 min True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba's Master Spy
Author: Scott Carmichael

11:45 AM 56 min Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner
Author: John Sullivan

12:45 PM 1 hr, 4 min Public Lives
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
Author: Roland Haas

1:50 PM 9 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: Google Book Search Interview
Author: Ben Bunnell

2:00 PM 58 min Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder
Author: Micah Halpern

3:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min FreedomFest 2007 - Ron Paul, Dinesh D'Souza, Larry Abraham, Doug Casey
Authors: Larry Abraham; Doug Casey; Dinesh D'Souza; Ron Paul

4:05 PM 13 min BUS - Michael Wolfe "Taking Back Islam"
Author: Michael Wolfe

4:20 PM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
Author: Rep. Shelley Berkley

4:20 PM 2 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) (1:03)
Author: Rep. Howard Coble

4:30 PM 1 hr, 24 min A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Author: Glenn Greenwald

5:50 PM 7 min 2007 BookExpo America: Harcourt
Author: Michelle Blakenship

6:00 PM 1 hr Encore Booknotes
The Abolition of Britain: From Churchill to Princess Diana
Author: Peter Hitchens

7:00 PM 47 min 2007 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair: Douglas Brinkley "The Reagan Diaries"
Author: Douglas Brinkley

7:45 PM 1 hr, 6 min History
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Author: Arnold Rampersad

8:50 PM 7 min BUS - Meredith Coppola "Made A Difference For That One"
Author: Meredith Coppola

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Michael Duffy, co-author, "The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House" interviewed by Bob Deans

10:00 PM 51 min History
2007 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Gary Scott Smith: "Faith and the Presidency"
Author: Gary Scott Smith

10:50 PM 7 min BUS - David Clary "Adopted Son"
Author: David Clary

11:00 PM 38 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)
Author: Robert Spencer

11:35 PM 19 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Cassandra Pybus, "Epic Journeys of Freedom"
Author: Cassandra Pybus


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Sunday, September 2, 2007

12:00 AM 54 min Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror
Author: Yuri Felshtinsky

12:55 AM 4 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Del. Donna Christensen (D-VI)
Author: Del. Donna Christensen

1:00 AM 43 min Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA
Author: Rowan Scarborough

1:45 AM 1 hr, 21 min Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA
Author: John Prados

3:05 AM 9 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: CQ Press Interview
Author: Ben Krasney

3:15 AM 1 hr, 4 min Public Lives
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
Author: Roland Haas

4:20 AM 9 min 2007 BookExpo America: WW Norton
Author: W. Drake McFeely

4:30 AM 56 min Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner
Author: John Sullivan

5:30 AM 1 hr, 12 min True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba's Master Spy
Author: Scott Carmichael

6:40 AM 15 min 2007 BookExpo America: Regnery
Author: Marjory Ross

7:00 AM 1 hr, 55 min Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions
Author: John Agresto

9:00 AM 1 hr, 28 min Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement
Authors: Mark Crispin Miller; Scott Ritter

10:25 AM 36 min Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
Author: Heidi Kraft

11:00 AM 58 min Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
Author: Kirsten Holmstedt

12:00 PM 3 hr In Depth: Christopher Hitchens

3:00 PM 35 min Writing Life: Robert Novak
Author: Robert Novak

3:40 PM 47 min 2007 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair: Robert Dallek "Nixon and Kissinger"
Author: Robert Dallek

4:30 PM 1 hr, 2 min Public Lives
Fallen Founder: The Life Of Aaron Burr
Author: Nancy Isenberg

5:30 PM 26 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
Author: Elizabeth Kantor

6:00 PM 58 min After Words: Michael Duffy, co-author, "The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House" interviewed by Bob Deans

7:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement
Authors: Mark Crispin Miller; Scott Ritter

8:25 PM 28 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism
Author: Carrie Lukas

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Michael Duffy, co-author, "The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House" interviewed by Bob Deans

10:00 PM 1 hr, 55 min Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions
Author: John Agresto

11:55 PM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO)
Author: Rep. Russ Carnahan


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Monday, September 3, 2007

12:00 AM 3 hr In Depth: Christopher Hitchens

3:00 AM 58 min After Words: Michael Duffy, co-author, "The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House" interviewed by Bob Deans

4:00 AM 25 min Shared Courage: A Marine Wife's Story of Strength and Service
Author: Michelle Keener

4:25 AM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
Author: Rep. Shelley Berkley

4:30 AM 1 hr, 20 min Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War
Authors: Robert Bauman; Dina Rasor

5:50 AM 7 min BUS - Zachary Shore "Breeding Bin Ladens"
Author: Zachary Shore

6:00 AM 58 min Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
Author: Kirsten Holmstedt

7:00 AM 36 min Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
Author: Heidi Kraft

7:35 AM 7 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: New Orleans Public Library Interview
Author: Rica Trigs

7:45 AM 14 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Daniel Mendelsohn "The Lost"
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn

8:00 AM 1 hr, 34 min The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy
Author: Richard Vedder

9:30 AM 1 hr, 23 min Public Lives
Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
Author: Nick Salvatore

11:00 AM 1 hr, 9 min The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Author: Johan Van Overtveldt

12:10 PM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
Author: Rep. Sam Farr

12:15 PM 57 min Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Author: Benjamin Barber

1:15 PM 1 hr, 28 min Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust
Author: Edward Gramlich

2:40 PM 17 min Mellon: An American Life
Author: David Cannadine

3:00 PM 58 min National Association of Black Journalists Convention Panel on News and Controversy with Marcus Mabry, Cora Daniels, Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher, and Karen Grigsby Bates
Authors: Cora Daniels; Michael Fletcher; Karen Grigsby Bates; Jeffrey Henderson; Marcus Mabry; Kevin Merida

4:00 PM 53 min History
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Author: Karen Abbott

4:50 PM 5 min BUS - James Olson "Fair Play"
Author: James Olson

5:00 PM 58 min Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't
Author: John Lott

6:00 PM 48 min The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents
Author: Bruce Caldwell

6:45 PM 11 min BUS - Peter Sussman "Decca"
Author: Peter Sussman

7:00 PM 38 min Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
Author: Robert Frank

7:35 PM 6 min 2007 BookExpo America: Palgrave Macmillan
Author: Airie Stuart

7:45 PM 1 hr, 9 min The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Author: Johan Van Overtveldt

8:55 PM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM)
Author: Rep. Tom Udall

9:00 PM 1 hr, 30 min What Would Jesus Buy?: Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse
Author: Reverend Billy

10:30 PM 37 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
Author: Robert Murphy

11:05 PM 7 min BUS - Meredith Coppola "Made A Difference For That One"
Author: Meredith Coppola

11:15 PM 57 min Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Author: Benjamin Barber


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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

12:15 AM 1 hr, 22 min The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won
Author: Peter Navarro

1:35 AM 7 min BUS - David Clary "Adopted Son"
Author: David Clary

1:45 AM 1 hr, 28 min Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust
Author: Edward Gramlich

3:15 AM 1 hr, 30 min What Would Jesus Buy?: Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse
Author: Reverend Billy

4:45 AM 1 hr, 34 min The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy
Author: Richard Vedder

6:15 AM 11 min BUS - Peter Sussman "Decca"
Author: Peter Sussman

6:30 AM 1 hr, 3 min History
The Real Pepsi Challenge: The Inspirational Story of Breaking the Color Barrier in American Business
Author: Stephanie Capparell

7:35 AM 7 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: New Orleans Public Library Interview
Author: Rica Trigs

7:40 AM 17 min Mellon: An American Life
Author: David Cannadine

http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

[Kurovski]

1. K&R

Happy labor Day, y'all!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. not for sfsexpat

:evilgrin:

You just beat her for the first time in weeks!


how ya doin'? Did you ever get the dining room done? :hug:

[Kurovski]

3. Hell no.

A lot of other things had to come first. Like the roof. Maybe this year water won't come pouring in when the monsoons start.

:loveya:

[Kurovski]

4. Kick.

I know she's around here somewhere...I just saw her on JeffR's puppy thread...

[Bozita]

5. Thanks, Viva!

[Hamlette]

6. k&r

[Kurovski]

7. Kick. (nt)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. Today's picks...

Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA

Author: John Prados

John Prados gives an overview of the CIA's covert operations since WWII and assesses whether those operations have helped the U.S. government reach its foreign policy goals. In his new book, Mr. Prados looks into the CIA's involvement in Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, and other countries. The event was hosted by MIT's Security Studies Program.



A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

Author: Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald argues that President Bush's good vs. evil world view won him supporters after 9/11 but has since backfired namely in Iraq, Iran, and on the domestic front.



After Words: Michael Duffy, co-author, "The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House" interviewed by Bob Deans

Michael Duffy is co-author, with Nancy Gibbs, of a new biography of Rev. Billy Graham, counselor to every president from Harry Truman to George W. Bush. Mr. Duffy discusses his book with Cox Newspapers' national correspondent Bob Deans, author of "The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James."

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. kick for the 'nobody's home' crowd.

868CE China - The earliest known printed book.

[Kurovski]

10. Kick. (nt)