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List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1993

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video)
Author Book Subject matter
January 3, 1993 Michael Davis and Hunter Clark Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench Thurgood Marshall
January 10, 1993 Jeffrey Birnbaum The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington Lobbying in the United States
January 17, 1993 P.F. Bentley Clinton: Portrait of Victory Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992
January 24, 1993 Robert Gilbert The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness; Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Health of Ronald Reagan
January 31, 1993 Benjamin Stein A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation Michael Milken
February 7, 1993 Jack Nelson Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews The Ku Klux Klan
February 14, 1993 Nathan Miller Theodore Roosevelt: A Life Theodore Roosevelt
February 21, 1993 Richard Norton Smith Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation George Washington
February 28, 1993 Kay Mills This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer
March 6, 1993 Alex Dragnich Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia Serbs; Croats; Yugoslavia
March 13, 1993 Paul Kennedy Preparing for the Twenty-First Century 21st century
March 21, 1993 Deborah Shapley Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara Robert McNamara
March 28, 1993 Michael Kelly Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War Gulf War; 20th century history of Iraq
April 4, 1993 Nadine Cohodas Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change Strom Thurmond
April 11, 1993 Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933 Eleanor Roosevelt
April 18, 1993 Douglas Brinkley The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey History of the United States
April 25, 1993 Lisa Belkin First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital Hermann Hospital; Medical ethics
May 2, 1993 Marshall DeBruhl Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston Sam Houston
May 9, 1993 Charles Adams For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization Category:History of taxation
May 16, 1993 Anna Quindlen Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
May 23, 1993 George Ball The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present Israel–United States relations
May 30, 1993 Douglas Davis The Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the Message Television in the United States
June 6, 1993 J. Bowyer Bell The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992 The Troubles
June 13, 1993 David Brock The Real Anita Hill Anita Hill
June 20, 1993 Howard Kurtz Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers Newspapers in the United States
June 27, 1993 George Shultz Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; United States Secretary of State
July 4, 1993 Joel Krieger The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World International relations
July 11, 1993 David Halberstam The Fifties United States in the 1950s
July 18, 1993 Molly Moore A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines Memoir/Autobiography; United States Marine Corps; Gulf War; War journalism
July 25, 1993 David Remnick Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Dissolution of the Soviet Union
August 1, 1993 Alexander Brook and Warren H. Phillips The Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor Newspapers; Kennebunk, Maine
August 8, 1993 Tom Rosenstiel Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992 1992 United States presidential election; ABC News
August 15, 1993 Lewis Lapham The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay Federal government of the United States
August 22, 1993 Harold Holzer The Lincoln-Douglas Debates The Lincoln-Douglas debates
August 29, 1993 Peter Macdonald Giap: The Victor in Vietnam General Võ Nguyên Giáp
September 5, 1993 Joseph Ellis Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams John Adams
September 12, 1993 Ronald Kessler The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency The Federal Bureau of Investigation
September 19, 1993 Madeline Cartwright For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public School School District of Philadelphia; Public education in the United States
September 26, 1993 Malcolm Browne Muddy Boots and Red Socks Memoir/Autobiography; War journalism; Vietnam War
October 3, 1993 Peter Skerry Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority Mexican Americans
October 10, 1993 Alan Brinkley The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People The History of the United States
October 17, 1993 Christopher Hitchens For the Sake of Argument Christopher Hitchens's political views
October 24, 1993 William F. Buckley Jr. Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist Memoir/Autobiography; The National Review; Firing Line
October 31, 1993 Andrew Nagorski The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe Eastern Europe
November 7, 1993 Charles Mee Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun; Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France; Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II; Congress of Vienna; Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Yalta Conference; G7
November 14, 1993 Herbert Block Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life Memoir/Autobiography; Editorial cartoons
November 28, 1993 Betty Friedan The Fountain of Age Ageing
December 5, 1993 Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years Memoir/Autobiography; Premiership of Margaret Thatcher
December 12, 1993 Richard Reeves President Kennedy: Profile of Power John F. Kennedy
December 19, 1993 John Podhoretz Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993 Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of George H.W. Bush
December 26, 1993 Willard Sterne Randall Thomas Jefferson: A Life Thomas Jefferson

References

  1. ^ "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. 19 August 2004.
  2. ^ Ellen Emry Heltzel (17 August 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian.
  3. ^ Frank J. Prial (4 December 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2010.