List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1997

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 5, 1997Edward Jay EpsteinDossier: The Secret History of Armand HammerArmand Hammer
January 12, 1997Robert FerrellThe Strange Deaths of President HardingWarren G. Harding
January 19, 1997Alfred ZacherTrial and Triumph: Presidential Power in the Second TermPresident of the United States
January 23, 1997Anita HillSpeaking Truth to PowerMemoir/Autobiography; Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination
January 26, 1997David BoazLibertarianism: A PrimerLibertarianism
February 2, 1997Henry GrunwaldOne Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His CountryMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Time Magazine
February 9, 1997John BradyBad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee AtwaterLee Atwater
February 16, 1997Katharine GrahamPersonal HistoryMemoir/Autobiography; The Washington Post; The Washington Post Company
February 23, 1997 and March 2, 1997Sam TanenhausWhittaker Chambers: A BiographyWhittaker Chambers
March 9, 1997Sarah GordonPassage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929History of rail transport in North America
March 19, 1997John FialkaWar By Other Means: Economic Espionage in AmericaIndustrial espionage
March 23, 1997Jon KatzVirtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits & Blockheads Like William BennettWilliam Bennett
March 30, 1997Claude Andrew Clegg IIIAn Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah MuhammadElijah Muhammad
April 6, 1997Keith RichburgOut of America: A Black Man Confronts AfricaAfrica
April 13, 1997David HorowitzRadical Son: A Generational OdysseyMemoir/Autobiography; American Left
April 20, 1997Leonard GarmentCrazy Rhythm: My Journey From Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street, to Nixon's White House, Watergate and BeyondMemoir/Autobiography; Billie Holiday Category:Presidency of Richard Nixon
April 27, 1997Stephen OatesThe Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861Origins of the American Civil War
May 4, 1997Christopher BuckleyWry MartinisEssays
May 11, 1997Richard Bernstein and Ross H. MunroThe Coming Conflict with ChinaSino-American relations
May 18, 1997Anne MatthewsBright College Years: Inside the American Campus TodayHigher education in the United States
May 25, 1997Jane Holtz KayAsphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It BackAutomotive industry in the United States
June 1, 1997Jill KrementzThe Writer's DeskCreative writing; Kurt Vonnegut
June 8, 1997Pavel PalazchenkoMy Years With Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet InterpreterMemoir/Autobiography; Mikhail Gorbachev; Eduard Shevardnadze
June 15, 1997Walter A. McDougallPromised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776Foreign policy of the United States
June 22, 1997James HumesConfessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political AdventuresMemoir/Autobiography; Speechwriting
June 29, 1997Walter CronkiteA Reporter's LifeMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
July 6, 1997Jack RakoveOriginal Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the ConstitutionThe U.S. Constitution
July 13, 1997Tom Clancy and Gen. Fred FranksInto the Storm: A Study in CommandGeneral officers in the United States; General (United States)
July 20, 1997Robert HughesAmerican Visions: The Epic History of Art in AmericaVisual art of the United States
July 27, 1997Sylvia Jukes MorrisRage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe LuceClare Boothe Luce
August 3, 1997LeAlan JonesOur America: Life and Death on the South Side of ChicagoGhetto Life 101; Ida B. Wells Homes
August 10, 1997James TobinErnie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War IIErnie Pyle
August 17, 1997Pauline MaierAmerican Scripture: Making the Declaration of IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence
August 24, 1997Peter MaasUnderboss: Sammy The Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the MafiaSammy "The Bull" Gravano
August 28, 1997John BerendtMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah StorySavannah, Georgia; Jim Williams
August 31, 1997Frank McCourtAngela's AshesMemoir/Autobiography; Limerick, Ireland; Brooklyn, New York; Irish Americans; Malachy McCourt; Alphie McCourt
September 7, 1997Brian BurrellThe Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, and Pledges That Have Shaped AmericaCreeds; Mottoes; Oaths; The Pledge of Allegiance; "In God We Trust"
September 14, 1997John TolandCaptured By History: One Man's Vision of Our Tumultuous Century20th century
September 21, 1997Peter GomesThe Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and HeartThe Bible
October 5, 1997Howard GardnerExtraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own ExtraordinarinessWolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sigmund Freud; Virginia Woolf; Mahatma Gandhi
October 12, 1997Geoffrey PerretUlysses S. Grant: Soldier & PresidentUlysses S. Grant
October 19, 1997Nat HentoffSpeaking Freely: A MemoirMemoir/Autobiography; First Amendment; Jazz
October 26, 1997Alan SchomNapoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte
November 2, 1997Thomas WestVindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of AmericaFounding Fathers of the United States
November 16, 1997David GelernterDrawing Life: Surviving the UnabomberThe Unabomber
November 30, 1997Jeff ShesolMutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a DecadeLyndon Johnson; Robert Kennedy
December 7, 1997Tim RussertMeet the Press: 50 Years of History in the MakingMeet the Press
December 14, 1997Susan ButlerEast to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia EarhartAmelia Earhart
December 21, 1997Jim HightowerThere's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead ArmadillosProgressivism in the United States
December 28, 1997Sally QuinnThe Party: A Guide to Adventurous EntertainingDinner parties

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.
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