List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1998

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 4, 1998Paul NagelJohn Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private LifeJohn Quincy Adams
January 11, 1998Iris ChangThe Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIThe Nanking Massacre
January 18, 1998Allan Metcalf and David BarnhartAmerica In So Many WordsAmerican English
January 25, 1998Daniel PipesConspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes FromConspiracy theories
February 1, 1998Roger SimonShowtime: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White HouseUnited States presidential primary
February 8, 1998Carol ReardonPickett's Charge in History & MemoryGeorge Pickett; Pickett's Charge
February 15, 1998Joseph HernonProfiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990The United States Senate
February 22, 1998William GildeaWhere the Game Matters MostHoosier Hysteria
March 1, 1998John LukacsThe Hitler of HistoryAdolf Hitler
March 8, 1998John MarszalekThe Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White HouseThe Petticoat affair
March 15, 1998Randall RobinsonDefending the Spirit: A Black Life in AmericaMemoir/Autobiography; TransAfrica
March 22, 1998Ernest LefeverThe Irony of Virtue: Ethics and American PowerEthics
March 29, 1998Douglas L. WilsonHonor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln
April 5, 1998Paul JohnsonA History of the American PeopleHistory of the United States
April 12, 1998Taylor BranchPillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 19, 1998John S.D. EisenhowerAgent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield ScottWinfield Scott
April 26, 1998Molly IvinsYou Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton YearsPolitics of the United States; Politics of Texas; Presidency of Bill Clinton
May 3, 1998David AikmanGreat Souls: Six Who Changed the CenturyMother Teresa; Nelson Mandela; Billy Graham; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Pope John II; Elie Wiesel
May 10, 1998Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural SocietyMulticulturalism
May 17, 1998Patrick BuchananThe Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global EconomyGlobalism
May 24, 1998Jill Ker ConwayWhen Memory Speaks: Reflections on AutobiographyMemoirs and Autobiographies
May 31, 1998Max BootOut of Order: Arrogance, Corruption, and Incompetence on the BenchCorruption in local government; Law of the United States
June 7, 1998Linda SimonGenuine Reality: A Life of William JamesWilliam James
June 14, 1998Edward LazarusClosed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the United States
June 21, 1998Ron ChernowTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.John D. Rockefeller
June 28, 1998Edward LarsonSummer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and ReligionThe Scopes Trial; Relationship between religion and science
July 5, 1998Andrew CarrollLetters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American LettersLetters
July 12, 1998John LewisWalking With the Wind: A Memoir of the MovementMemoir/Autobiography; African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
July 19, 1998Ben H. ProcterWilliam Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910William Randolph Hearst
July 26, 1998Richard HolbrookeTo End a WarBosnian War; Dayton Agreement
August 2, 1998F. Carolyn GragliaDomestic Tranquility: A Brief Against FeminismFeminism; Antifeminism
August 9, 1998Roy ReedFaubus: The Life and Times of An American ProdigalOrval Faubus
August 16, 1998Patricia O'TooleMoney and Morals in AmericaPhilanthropy in the United States
August 23, 1998Barbara CrossetteThe Great Hill Stations of AsiaHill stations
August 30, 1998Robert SobelCoolidge: An America EnigmaCalvin Coolidge
September 6, 1998Linda DavisBadge of Courage: The Life of Stephen CraneStephen Crane
September 13, 1998Arnold RogowA Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron BurrAlexander Hamilton; Aaron Burr; Burr–Hamilton duel
September 20, 1998Larry TyeThe Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public RelationsEdward Bernays; Public relations
September 27, 1998Balint VazsonyiAmerica’s 30 Years War: Who Is Winning?Economic history of the United States; Socialism
October 4, 1998George Bush and Brent ScowcroftA World TransformedUnited States foreign policy; History of the United States National Security Council 1989–1993; Cold War (1985–1991)
October 11, 1998Juan WilliamsThurgood Marshall: American RevolutionaryThurgood Marshall
October 18, 1998Christopher DickeySummer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and SonMemoir/Autobiography; James Dickey; The novel Deliverance; The film Deliverance
October 25, 1998Dorothy HerrmannHelen Keller: A LifeHelen Keller
November 1, 1998Charles LewisThe Buying of the Congress: How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of HappinessLobbying in the United States
November 8, 1998Simon WinchesterThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary; William Chester Minor; James Murray
November 15, 1998Eric FonerThe Story of American FreedomCivil liberties in the United States; Political freedom
November 22, 1998Philip GourevitchWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From RwandaRwandan Genocide
November 29, 1998Melissa MüllerAnne Frank: The BiographyAnne Frank
December 6, 1998Shelby SteeleA Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in AmericaAffirmative action; Reverse discrimination
December 13, 1998William GreiderFortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of PeaceMilitary budget of the United States
December 20, 1998A. Scott BergLindberghCharles Lindbergh
December 27, 1998Peter JenningsThe Century: America's TimeAmerican Century

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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