ON BOOK TV THIS WEEKEND CSPAN2
Extended Holiday Schedule
"Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazi's Final Gamble"; "Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen"; "Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I"; "Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College"; "How Capital-ism Saves America"; much more.
All times are eastern
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Saturday, May 28
8:00 am Featured Program: 3 Days of Book TV on Memorial Weekend
8:00 Bill Press, 2005 Palm Springs Book Fest: Bill Press "How the Republicans Stole Christmas"
9:00 Denis Boyles, 2005 Arkansas Lit. Fest: Denis Boyles "Vile France"
10:00 R.W. Apple, Jr., Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities in the United States and Canada
11:00 Public Lives: Janis Kearney, 2005 Arkansas Lit. Fest: Janis Kearney "Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir"
11:50 I.C. Smith, Inside: A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies, and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI
1:00 pm Wayne Baker, America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception
2:00 Christina Hoff Sommers & Sally Satel, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
3:10 Jennifer Washburn, University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
4:00 General Assignment: Michael Sledge, Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, & Honor Our Military Fallen
5:15 Pratap Chatterjee, Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation
7:00 Encore Booknotes: Armstrong Williams, Beyond Blame: How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency Barrier
8:00 History on Book TV: Timothy Naftali, Kent Germany, David Shreve, Robert Johnson, The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson Volumes 1-3 The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963 - January 1964
9:30 Tara Ross, Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College
10:20 Nancy Conrad & Howard Klausner, Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
11:00 Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats
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Sunday, May 29
12:00 am After Words: Ronald Radosh interviewed by Jack Valenti
1:00 Philip Gourevitch, Svetlana Alexievich, Elena Poniatowska, Francois Bizot, Carolin Emcke, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Discussion on Writing and Catastrophe
3:00 2005 Arkansas Literary Festival: Quang Pham "A Sense of Duty"
3:45 Todd Buchholz, Bringing the Jobs Home: How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis -- and How We Can Fix It
5:00 2005 Annapolis Book Festival: David Shipler "The Working Poor"
6:15 World History Textbooks discussion
8:00 Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello
9:00 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Walter Mosley
10:00 David Horowtiz, The End of Time
11:10 Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation
12:00 pm Alan Wolfe, Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It
1:15 Brian Anderson, South Park Conservatives: The Revolt against Liberal Media Bias
2:00 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Covering War
3:00 Robert Ferrell, Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I
3:50 Lindsay, Moran, Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy
4:30 History on Book TV: Timothy Naftali, Kent Germany, David Shreve, Robert Johnson, The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson Volumes 1-3 The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963 - January 1964
6:00 Featured Program: After Words: Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin (USMC Ret.) interviewed by Tony Capaccio
7:00 General Assignment: Rick Bragg, 2005 Arkansas Lit. Fest: Rick Bragg on the World of Nonfiction
8:00 Thomas DiLorenzo, How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present
9:00 Featured Program: After Words: Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin (USMC Ret.) interviewed by Tony Capaccio
10:00 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Ray Bradbury
10:45 General Assignment: Simon Singh, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
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Monday, May 30
12:00 am Jack Welch, Winning
1:00 Barbara Goldsmith interviewed by Lynn Sherr, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
2:15 William Thomas Generous, Sweet Pea at War: A History of the USS Portland
3:00 Featured Program: Robert Schneller with Wesley Brown, Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy’s First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality
4:20 Larry Mantle, 2005 Palm Springs Book Fest: Larry Mantle "This is Air Talk"
5:00 Lee Edwards, The Essential Ronald Reagan
5:45 Reza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
7:00 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Writers in Exile
8:00 2005 Virginia Festival of the Book: American Culture Panel
9:15 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Ron Kovic
10:20 Dava Sobel, Sebastian Junger, Hampton Sides & Melissa Faye Greene, Writing Nonfiction Panel
11:50 Fergus Bordewich, Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America
1:00 pm General Assignment: Michael Sledge, Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, & Honor Our Military Fallen
2:15 Featured Program: Robert Schneller with Wesley Brown, Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy’s First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality
3:30 Joseph Petro, Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service
4:45 Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats
5:45 History on Book TV: Roger Cohen, Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazi's Final Gamble
7:00 Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation
7:55 Public Lives: Janis Kearney, 2005 Arkansas Lit. Fest: Janis Kearney "Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir"
8:45 David Horowtiz, The End of Time
10:00 General Assignment: Michael Sledge, Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, & Honor Our Military Fallen
11:10 Robert Ferrell, Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I
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Tuesday, May 31
12:00 am History on Book TV: Roger Cohen, Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazi's Final Gamble
1:15 P.W. Singer, Roger Rosenblatt, Chris Hedges, Children at War
2:30 John Lukacs, Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
3:40 Wayne Baker, America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception
4:30 Ronald Drez, Remember D-Day: Both Sides Tell Their Stories
5:20 Boaz Ganor, The Counter-Terrorism Puzzle
6:50 Edwin Black, 2005 Palm Springs Book Fest: Edwin Black "Banking on Baghdad" & "IBM & The Holocaust"
link to CSPAN full schedule
http://www.booktv.org/schedule/