Book TV Schedule: October 20th - 22nd

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: October 20-22
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM ET
In The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Naomi Wolf has compiled a case against the Bush administration and Congress in what she believes are actions to reduce the civil liberties of the American populace. Ms. Wolf presents ten steps that range from the establishment of secret prisons to the restriction of the press that she argues history has shown are used to shut down free societies. Ms. Wolf discusses her book with Viet Dinh, former Assistant Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 who assisted in the development of the USA Patriot Act.



Weekend Highlights
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Vicente Fox, Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President
The former president of Mexico recounts his life starting from his grandfather's immigration from Ohio to Mexico, to his corporate career as the youngest CEO of Coca-Cola Mexico and his six-year tenure as president. Vicente Fox shares his personal life as well as his thoughts on illegal immigration and Mexican foreign relations.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 1:45 AM ET)

Peniel Joseph, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Peniel Joseph chronicles the history of the black power movement in America. Mr. Joseph follows a group of activists that built their movement upon the work of Malcolm X. The author relays the rise of the Black Panthers and profiles leaders of the black power movement such as Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis. Peniel Joseph discusses his book at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
(Saturday 1:15 PM, Sunday 6:00 AM ET)

Kinky Friedman, You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think
Texas novelist and former candidate for governor, Kinky Friedman, talks about Texas politics and gives his advice on how to solve problems like illegal immigration, school funding, and crime. The talk was hosted by Olsson's Books in Washington, DC.
(Sunday 11:15 PM, Sunday 1:45 PM ET)

Ali Allawi, Jon Lee Anderson, David Kilcullen, Phebe Marr, George Packer, New Yorker Festival: Iraq Revisited Panel
From the 2007 New Yorker Festival, a panel on the Iraq War. Participating are: Ali Allawi, former Iraqi Minister of Defense and author of The Occupation of Iraq; Jon Lee Anderson, author of The Fall of Baghdad; Phebe Marr, author of The Modern History of Iraq; George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq; and David Kilcullen, senior counterinsurgency adviser to General David Petraeus.
(Sunday 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM, Monday 6:00 AM ET)



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

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Saturday, October 20, 2007

8:00 AM 1 hr Young America's Foundation - Great Books to Read in College
Author: Young America's Foundation

9:00 AM 48 min History
Retained By The People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment And The Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have
Author: Daniel Farber

10:00 AM 1 hr Feds in the Classroom
Author: Neal McCluskey

11:00 AM 51 min The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior -- And How We Can Reclaim Our Courage
Author: Martha Stout

12:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Author: Stephen Mihm

1:15 PM 1 hr, 29 min Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Author: Peniel Joseph

3:00 PM 1 hr, 1 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's thinking on economics, business ethics, and entrepreneurship
Authors: Robert Bidinotto; Rob Bradley; Ed Snider; Edward Younkins

4:00 PM 58 min After Words: Tim Weiner author of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" - 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

5:30 PM 30 min State of the Print Book Review
Authors: John Freeman; Elizabeth Taylor; David Ulin; Julia Wallace; Jim Warren; Steve Wasserman

6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes: "Nixon Off The Record"
Author: Monica Crowley

7:00 PM 1 hr, 5 min Public Lives
Vicente Fox author of "Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President"
Author: Vicente Fox

8:00 PM 1 hr, 2 min Brother, I'm Dying
Author: Edwidge Danticat - 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

9:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" interviewed by Viet Dinh

10:00 PM 1 hr, 8 min History
Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices and Life Lessons from the White House
Author: Egil Krogh

11:15 PM 49 min You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make him Think
Author: Kinky Friedman


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Sunday, October 21, 2007

12:00 AM 1 hr, 37 min New Yorker Festival: Iraq Revisited Panel
Authors: Ali Allawi; Jon Lee Anderson; David Kilcullen; Phebe Marr; George Packer

1:45 AM 1 hr, 5 min Public Lives
Vicente Fox author of "Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President"
Author: Vicente Fox

3:00 AM 1 hr, 1 min 50th Anniversary of "Atlas Shrugged" : A discussion on Rand's thinking on economics, business ethics, and entrepreneurship
Authors: Robert Bidinotto; Rob Bradley; Ed Snider; Edward Younkins

4:00 AM 48 min History
Retained By The People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment And The Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have
Author: Daniel Farber

6:00 AM 1 hr, 29 min Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Author: Peniel Joseph

7:30 AM 1 hr, 8 min History
Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices and Life Lessons from the White House
Author: Egil Krogh

9:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min D. Michael Lindsay's "Faith in the halls of Power" and Hanna Rosin's "God's Harvard"
Authors: D. Michael Lindsay; Hanna Rosin

10:00 AM 37 min Unbowed: A Memoir
Author: Wangari Maathai

11:00 AM 1 hr Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Author: Ben Kiernan

12:00 PM 1 hr, 37 min New Yorker Festival: Iraq Revisited Panel
Authors: Ali Allawi; Jon Lee Anderson; David Kilcullen; Phebe Marr; George Packer

1:45 PM 49 min You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make him Think
Author: Kinky Friedman

2:30 PM 32 min Eagle Council - Jed Babbin "In The Words of Our Enemies"
Author: Jed Babbin

3:00 PM 51 min Independent Nation: How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics
Author: John Avlon

4:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and Origins of 9/11
Author: Amy Zegart

5:30 PM 30 min Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
Authors: Bob Beckel; Cal Thomas

6:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" interviewed by Viet Dinh

7:00 PM 1 hr, 14 min Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea
Author: Bruce Bechtol

8:30 PM 30 min Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
Authors: Bob Beckel; Cal Thomas

9:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" interviewed by Viet Dinh

10:00 PM 1 hr, 5 min D. Michael Lindsay's "Faith in the halls of Power" and Hanna Rosin's "God's Harvard"
Authors: D. Michael Lindsay; Hanna Rosin

11:00 PM 37 min Unbowed: A Memoir
Author: Wangari Maathai


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Monday, October 22, 2007

12:00 AM 1 hr After Words: Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" interviewed by Viet Dinh

1:00 AM 1 hr, 14 min Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea
Author: Bruce Bechtol

2:30 AM 30 min Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
Authors: Bob Beckel; Cal Thomas

3:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min D. Michael Lindsay's "Faith in the halls of Power" and Hanna Rosin's "God's Harvard"
Authors: D. Michael Lindsay; Hanna Rosin

4:00 AM 37 min Unbowed: A Memoir
Author: Wangari Maathai

5:00 AM 32 min Eagle Council - Jed Babbin "In The Words of Our Enemies"
Author: Jed Babbin

5:30 AM 30 min State of the Print Book Review
Authors: John Freeman; Elizabeth Taylor; David Ulin; Julia Wallace; Jim Warren; Steve Wasserman

6:00 AM 1 hr, 37 min New Yorker Festival: Iraq Revisited Panel
Authors: Ali Allawi; Jon Lee Anderson; David Kilcullen; Phebe Marr; George Packer


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

[EFerrari]

1. Finally! Ha!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. lol!

[Kurovski]

5. Hmm. So now you're passing out trophys?

Well that's certainly interesting, I must say.

Not that I care about that sort of thing. And don't get me wrong, I'm very happy for sfexpat. Jealousy plays no part in the matter, as my joy for her win has fully occupied my every waking moment.

I hope she finds a nice spot to put her lovely new trophy.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. well, I saved this for you...

:loveya:

[Kurovski]

12. Shiny & hard.

I'll take it. :loveya:

[EFerrari]

3. Kick

[Kurovski]

6. Oh. sfexy. I didn't see you there.

By the way, congratulations on being the first to K&R the thread. So marvelous. Really. So marvelous. How do you manage it?

Really.

I couldn't be happier if I had that gleaming trophy all for myself. Not that those things have any meaning. They just sit there. Gleaming and golden.

Again, I'm so happy for you my dear. *kiss, kiss*

[Kurovski]

8. Jeepers.

That Kuravsky is a real bastard. Do you want me to smack him around for you? :hug:

[EFerrari]

10. LOL! No, he'll just go General Washington all over me.

:hi:

[Kurovski]

15. We can cross that Delaware when we get to it.

I'm going for it! :hi:

Look out, Krivoski, here I come...:spank:

[Bozita]

4. Great weekend lineup! The RWers are rare this time

Naomi Wolf on AfterWords?

I must have died and gone to ...

K&R

[Kurovski]

7. I prefer my RWers well done.

:hi:

[Bozita]

19. I like them extra crispy on the outside.

And raw and painful in the innards.

It's their turn in the barrel.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. Kick!

[Kurovski]

13. Kick. (NT)

[TacticalPeek]

14. Kick.

:kick:

:)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. kick!

[Hidden Stillness]

17. "The End of America," Naomi Wolf--Fabulous!

This was a fabulous program, and probably a great book, although I have not read it yet. It appears to be a combination history lesson-warning about current conditions, maybe along the lines of Thom Hartmann, etc., and was written as much to answer the ignorance of history, and lack of civics education, shown by "liberals," as to answer the current belligerance and distortion of "conservatives." Much of the current threat is due to a breakdown generally, of knowledge of the Constitution, our history and what the Founders really wanted--checks and balances, restrictions of power, balance of power, public debate--and what it is that is really being threatened. With most people seemingly more concerned with the trivial crap on TV, etc., than paying real attention to political and civic life, thinking that "nothing really bad will ever happen here," Naomi Wolf decided that she needed to write this book. What really sealed it, although she thought it was a huge exaggeration at the time, was when a woman whose parents survived the Holocaust started saying recently, "They did this in Germany, They did this in Germany," about the abuses and "law changes," warrantless wiretaps, targeted slander campaigns and use of torture of the Bush Administration.

She made a study of history and compiled a list of ten things that mark the rise and finally consolidation of all power of despots from all eras of history, noting how similar the pattern is--from the use and exploitation of an external threat, to attacking critics as "traitors," to shutting down the press and extending the restrictions on dissent speech, to targetting individuals, there is a progression, and it is always the same. It is vary hard to fight, because, contrary to common belief, the progression is not slow and orderly, easy to comprehend the increasing danger and abuse, but actually muted and easy to ignore or characterize as something "normal," then very quickly, the change is there, and it is too late because laws, etc., have been removed, and there is no way to fight or stop things now. This is a tricky topic, because it is so easy to sound like an idiot panicking over any little thing and exagerrating it or making false historical comparisons that are not really accurate--like pretending that Americans are "like Nazis." Wolf handled the accusation very well.

Once, this creepy bastard who was interviewing her actually said that she was "crying wolf against everybody that we used to call 'The Man,' " and that "We all agree that we don't torture." Thank God--she did not fold, and crawl! "No, we can't agree on that at all," that it was "a soundbite, that we don't torture," and that "You know so much better than that" and that she would not "waste time rebutting Administration sound bites." It was so easy, and so complete! An answer! Later, this shit happened again, and again she answered it. When discussing the way critics of the Administration have been labelled "traitors" or "aiding the terrorists," etc., this interviewer, who by the way, helped foist the "Patriot" Act on us, laughed, "Is this what people talk about, in Martha's Vinyard?" This slap-in-the-face, ("rich, useless limosine-liberals," etc.), so typical of Republicans for so long, although stunning as it came out of nowhere, nonetheless did not go unanswered: "I WISH I were in Martha's Vinyard," that no, she did not live there, and that she has been hearing these concerns and fears, all over the country, from "ordinary Americans, who DON'T vacation in Martha's Vinyard." It was wonderful to hear every smear, every insinuation, answered.

There was a lot of historical reference, to World War II and the Nazis and fascists, to the Espionage Act of 1917, to other eras with similar patterns of increasing "threats of terror," punitive measures against formerly allowed criticism (with reference to the current Move On situation, with a censure from Congress), and although, again, there has to be a real concern about conflating eras and situations, and although she assured the interviewer that she does not expect crematoriums, etc., that there has still been a profound change by this Administration, to things we never would have allowed to happen before, with secret prisons for "enemy combatants," and increasing use of the term, "enemy combatant," spying, and the alarming spread of Blackwater from the battlefield to "policing" cities in the U.S., already at New Orleans, etc. There were brief but good parts of the discussion about the also lawless Supreme Court, and shockingly compliant Congress.

It ended with Naomi Wolf's opinion that the basis of this is corporate/economic, the "military-industrial complex" with diminishing "markets" as the real threats fade and the domestic economy here fails. It is now called, by the Trilateral Commission and quoted by Wolf, the "security-industrial complex." This also explains the explosion of surveillance cameras in all areas of life now, needed or not, Blackwater and its multiplying contracts, and all the rest. This promises to be a great book I think, a great blend of historical perspective and sounding-the-alarm; there were also parts of the program where Wolf described the "tipping point" phenomenon, and how little it would actually take, for example with arresting or silencing journalists, before the flow of public information and the safeguard that represents, would be crippled. It is a huge topic.

[Robbien]

18. Comcast moved CSpan2 off Basic Service in my area

So sad.

And of course this is the weekend BookTV decides not to flood the schedule with right wing nonsense.