Book TV Schedule: October 6th - 8th

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: October 6-8
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In Depth
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET
Join us for a conversation with author David Horowitz. Mr. Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture) and the publisher of FrontPage Magazine. Mr. Horowitz's books include: Destructive Generation (with Peter Collier), Radical Son, Uncivil Wars, and Unholy Alliances. His most recent books are The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America and Indoctrination U: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom.

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


AfterWords
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein argues that in the wake of natural and manmade devastation economic reform is introduced to benefit investors and free market advocates while taking advantage of moments of collective disorientation. Ms. Klein focuses her criticism on Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics, and presents examples for her argument by profiling the current situations in Iraq and New Orleans. Naomi Klein is interviewed by Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic and author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory for Globalization.


Weekend Highlights
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Clarence Thomas, My Grandfather's Son
Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams hosted a reception to mark the publication of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' memoir. In this program, viewers get an inside look at a Washington, DC party attended by many of the nation's leading conservatives, including Vice President and Mrs. Cheney, Chief Justice Roberts, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond also attended.
(Saturday 7 PM and 11 PM, Sunday 8 AM ET)

Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
In his book, Bjorn Lomborg argues that global warming is not a catastrophe but a problem. Mr. Lomborg provides scenarios and solutions to problems associated with global warming. He also discusses some of the issues he views as more of an immediate problem, like malaria, AIDS, and clean water supplies.
(Saturday 9:30 AM, Sunday 4:45 PM ET)

Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat talks about her uncle Joseph, a Baptist minister who took care of her as a child in Haiti. Joseph Danticat fled Haiti in 2004, at the age of 81, and came to the U.S. seeking political asylum. Upon arrival, he was imprisoned by U.S. Homeland Security and died while in custody.
(Saturday 11 AM, Sunday 3 AM ET)

Matthew Brzezinski, Paul Dickson, Gene Eisman, 50th Anniversary of the Sputnik Launch Roundtable Discussion
On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, the first satellite into outer space. The authors of three books commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch discuss the Soviet and U.S. space race and the effect that Sputnik's launch had on each country. The panelists include Paul Dickson, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, Matthew Brzezinski, Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age and Gene Eisman, Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race co-written with Von Hardesty.
(Saturday 12 PM, Sunday 12 AM ET)





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

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Saturday, October 6, 2007

8:00 AM 1 hr, 17 min Letters to a Young Teacher
Author: Jonathan Kozol

9:30 AM 1 hr, 16 min Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg

11:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min Brother, I'm Dying
Author: Edwidge Danticat

12:00 PM 1 hr, 2 min History
50th Anniversary of the Sputnik Launch Roundtable Discussion
Authors: Matthew Brzezinski; Paul Dickson; Gene Eisman

1:00 PM 59 min History
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
Author: David Friedman

2:00 PM 59 min History
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Author: Pat Shipman

3:00 PM 55 min The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda
Author: Yaroslav Trofimov

5:00 PM 33 min History
2007 National Book Festival: Michael Oren, "Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East - 1776 to Present"
Author: Michael Oren

5:30 PM 38 min History
2007 National Book Festival: David Kennedy, "The Library of Congress World War II Companion"
Author: David Kennedy

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
President Kennedy: Profile of Power
Author: Richard Reeves

7:00 PM 52 min "My Grandfather's Son"
Author: Clarence Thomas

8:00 PM 53 min A Woman in Charge
Author: Carl Bernstein

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Naomi Klein author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" interviewed by Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic

10:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Author: Jeffrey Toobin

11:00 PM 52 min "My Grandfather's Son"
Author: Clarence Thomas


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Sunday, October 7, 2007

12:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min History
50th Anniversary of the Sputnik Launch Roundtable Discussion
Authors: Matthew Brzezinski; Paul Dickson; Gene Eisman

1:00 AM 55 min The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda
Author: Yaroslav Trofimov

3:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min Brother, I'm Dying
Author: Edwidge Danticat

4:00 AM 34 min Eagle Council - Tom Tancredo "In Mortal Danger"
Author: Tom Tancredo

5:00 AM 1 hr, 28 min Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and Origins of 9/11
Author: Amy Zegart

7:00 AM 43 min Eagle Council - Jerome Corsi "The Late, Great USA"
Author: Jerome Corsi

8:00 AM 52 min "My Grandfather's Son"
Author: Clarence Thomas

9:00 AM 1 hr, 24 min The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Authors: John Mearsheimer; Stephen Walt

10:30 AM 33 min Caucus of Corruption: The Truth about the New Democratic Majority
Authors: Matt Margolis; Mark Noonan

11:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Author: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)

12:00 PM 3 hr In Depth: David Horowitz

3:00 PM 1 hr, 37 min Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
Author: Norman Solomon

4:45 PM 1 hr, 16 min Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg

6:00 PM 58 min After Words: Naomi Klein author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" interviewed by Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic

7:00 PM 1 hr, 24 min The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Authors: John Mearsheimer; Stephen Walt

8:30 PM 33 min Caucus of Corruption: The Truth about the New Democratic Majority
Authors: Matt Margolis; Mark Noonan

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Naomi Klein author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" interviewed by Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic

10:00 PM 54 min The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control
Author: Abraham Foxman

11:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Author: Jeffrey Toobin


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Monday, October 8, 2007

12:00 AM 3 hr In Depth: David Horowitz

3:00 AM 58 min After Words: Naomi Klein author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" interviewed by Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic

4:00 AM 33 min History
2007 National Book Festival: Michael Oren, "Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East - 1776 to Present"
Author: Michael Oren

4:30 AM 43 min Eagle Council - Jerome Corsi "The Late, Great USA"
Author: Jerome Corsi

6:00 AM 1 hr, 59 min Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism & Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq
Author: William Polk

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


I got an e-mail alert this week about a BookTV Viewer Survey. Click here to play... http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qdIE8cOOtcSsgHooYqr9eQ_3d_3d


This week's theme.... Critters!...

[Bozita]

1. Lotsa rightwingers this weekend

Thanks, Viva.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. who, on the 'left,' would be comparable to David Horowitz?

how does somebody like that rate THREE HOURS? and how many times have they had comparable right wing maniacs on in that slot?

lots of times

I'd like to see the list of people they've had on that show

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. when I took the viewer survey, I made a few suggestions....

Gore Vidal and Howard Zinn

some of the people that have been on the show...

Noam Chomsky
Edward O Wilson
Tammy Bruce
Christopher Hitchens
Jimmy Carter
John Hope Franklin
Charles Murray
Carlo D'Este
Camille Paglia
Thomas Fleming
Barbara Ehrenreich
Margaret Atwood
Lewis Lapham
John Hope Franklin

[EFerrari]

6. Howard Zinn.

:hi:

[librechik]

20. except Zinn doesn't lie!

even tho the right tries to say he does. Projection!

[TacticalPeek]

10. C-span/c-span2/BookTV is practically the only place on tv where one sees some of those folks.

As a typical c-span caller might say, "Thank you for BookTV threads."

:patriot:

[EFerrari]

5. I'm going to suggest a program name change to Book Nuts. n/t

[Kurovski]

3. K&R!

Thanks, Ms. Vivala! :hug:

[Joanne98]

7. The Shock Doctrine at 9 pm tonight YEAH!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. I'll have to catch the repeat...

I'll be busy swillin brews with fellow DU'ers at a local brewpub tonight. :beer:

I've promised not to dance on the table again. :evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

12. Life is a dance!

Say yes to life!

Even on a table top. No, ESPECIALLY on a table top.

[KoKo]

9. Naomi Klein and Mearsheimer & Walt's book on the Israeli Lobby

should be good watches.
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9:00 AM 1 hr, 24 min The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Authors: John Mearsheimer; Stephen Walt

[Kurovski]

11. Interview as debate.

Naomi stood up well to a person more interested in his own opinion than hers. What an awful interviewer.

The guy from The New Republic should also learn to drop all the "you knows", "ums" and "uhs" from his "vocabulary".

She was sharp and on point. He was...well, awful.

Watching the Clarence Thomas book "party" was an exercise in keeping my dinner down.

[EFerrari]

14. She was patient AND brilliant.

[Gabi Hayes]

22. this happens all the time with 'liberal/left' guests. I can't remember EVER

having seen this sort of adversial interview with the myriad wingnut guests they have on

EVER

can anybody recall even one time they had the 'host' giving the guest a hard time?

remember Brian Lamb's book show? the ONLY time I ever saw him go after a guest was when he had Michael Moore, and I used to watch that show every week for years.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. I'm finally watching it now...

and the interviewer's constant interruptions are really getting on my nerves. :mad:

[Kurovski]

24. See what I mean?

What a round-headed little tool Franky boy is.

Naomi catalogs what everyone paying attention has noticed since 9/11. There are no real "accidents" or mistakes in the disasters BushCo has overseen. DUers have written about how the "incompetence" is by design.

[EFerrari]

13. kick

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. back from the par-tay KICK!

:evilgrin:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. kick!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. I'm trying to watch the Horowitz interview...

know thine enemy, right? He pisses me off so bad. The only thing making it worthwhile watching is the lefties calling in giving him hell.

[librechik]

19. i have interviewed him. He won't allow anyone to call him "conservative"

he is simply infuriating and valueless. I am really outraged that Cspan has him on. I hope the callers eviscerate him, but he is impervious to criticism, the ultimate authoritarian blame gamer.

Oh, BTW, I'm 4 feet 10 and I'm taller than him.

Loveya, Viva! you're the best!

[librechik]

18. OMFG--3 hrs of David Horowitz???!!!?

they better take out lawsuit insurance--10 minutes of this jackass causes epilepsy.

[Kurovski]

21. Kick.

Horowitz: One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

Where will he go in the third and final phase of his life as an extremist?