List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1994

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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)
AuthorBookSubject matter
January 2, 1994 David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 W. E. B. Du Bois
January 9, 1994 William Bennett The Book of Virtues Virtue
January 16, 1994 Carolyn Barta Perot and His People: Disrupting the Balance of Political Power Ross Perot; The Reform Party
January 23, 1994 Gary Hymel and Tip O'Neill All Politics is Local and other Rules of the Game Memoir/Autobiography ; The U.S. House of Representatives; Politics of Massachusetts
January 30, 1994 William Chafe Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism Allard Lowenstein
February 6, 1994 Stanley Weintraub Disraeli: A Biography Benjamin Disraeli
February 13, 1994 Bill Emmott Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese Economy of Japan; Anti-Japanese sentiment
February 20, 1994 Peter Arnett Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 years in the World's War Zones Memoir/Autobiography ; Journalism; The Vietnam War; The Gulf War
February 27, 1994 Stephen Lesher George Wallace: American Populist George Wallace
March 6, 1994 Nathan McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America Memoir/Autobiography
March 13, 1994 Norman Ornstein Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It Taxation in the United States; United States public debt
March 20, 1994 Clare Brandt The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold Benedict Arnold
March 27, 1994 John Corry My Times: Adventures in the News Trade Memoir/Autobiography ; The New York Times
April 3, 1994 Andrew Young A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young Memoir/Autobiography ; Civil Rights Movement
April 10, 1994 Fifth Anniversary SpecialN/AExcerpts from and interviews about the first five years of Booknotes
April 17, 1994 James Cannon Time and Change: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History Gerald Ford
May 1, 1994 Howell Raines Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis Memoir/Autobiography ; Journalism
May 8, 1994 John Keegan A History of Warfare Warfare
May 15, 1994 Forrest McDonald The American Presidency: An Intellectual History President of the United States
May 22, 1994 James McPherson What They Fought For, 1861-1865 American Civil War
May 29, 1994 Pete Hamill A Drinking Life: A Memoir Memoir/Autobiography ; Journalism
June 5, 1994 Stephen Ambrose D-Day: June 6, 1944—The Climactic Battle of World War II Operation Overlord
June 12, 1994 Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America Abraham Lincoln
June 19, 1994 Sam Roberts Who We Are: A Portrait of America Demographics of the United States; 1990 United States Census
June 26, 1994 Lani Guinier The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy Racism in the United States
July 3, 1994 Murray Kempton Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events History of the United States; Paul Robeson; Cassius Clay; A. Philip Randolph; Karl Marx; Ronald Reagan; Westbrook Pegler; Alger Hiss; H.L. Mencken; Whittaker Chambers
July 10, 1994 Cal Thomas The Things That Matter Most Modern liberalism in the United States; Criticism of the War on Poverty
July 17, 1994 David Hackett Fischer Paul Revere's Ride Paul Revere; "Paul Revere's Ride"
July 24, 1994 Dan Quayle Standing Firm Memoir/Autobiography ; The Vice President of the United States; George H.W. Bush
July 31, 1994 Colman McCarthy All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence Nonviolence; Pacifism
August 7, 1994 Peter Collier The Roosevelts: An American Saga Roosevelt family
August 14, 1994 Merrill Peterson Lincoln in American Memory Abraham Lincoln; Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
August 21, 1994 Hugh Pearson The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Huey Newton; The Black Panthers
August 28, 1994 John Leo Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police Political correctness
September 4, 1994 Paul Weaver News and the Culture of Lying Journalism; Pseudo-events
September 11, 1994 Shelby Foote Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign American Civil War
September 18, 1994 Irving Bartlett John C. Calhoun: A Biography John Calhoun
September 25, 1994 Ben Yagoda Will Rogers: A Biography Will Rogers
October 2, 1994 Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.
October 9, 1994 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Colored People African-American history; African Americans in the 1960s
October 16, 1994 Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power China
October 23, 1994 Liz Carpenter Unplanned Parenthood Parenting; Old age; Lady Bird Johnson
October 30, 1994 David Frum Dead Right Republican Party (United States)
November 6, 1994 Bill Thomas Club Fed: Power, Money, Sex and Violence on Capitol Hill Political power; Capitol Hill
November 13, 1994 John Kenneth Galbraith A Journey Through Economic Time Economics
November 20, 1994 Milton Friedman Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom Economics; Classical liberalism
November 27, 1994 Melba Pattillo Beals Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Memoir/Autobiography; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock Nine
December 4, 1994 Charles Murray The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Intelligence; Race and intelligence
December 11, 1994 Elizabeth Drew On The Edge: The Clinton Presidency Bill Clinton; Presidency of Bill Clinton
December 18, 1994 Peter Robinson Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA Stanford Graduate School of Business
December 25, 1994 Glenn Frankel Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel Israel; Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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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.