Book TV Schedule: September 2nd - 5th [View All]

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: September 2-5
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In Depth
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM - 3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET
Join us for a conversation with author and radio talk show host
Tammy Bruce. Ms. Bruce is the author of The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (2001), The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values (2003), and The New American Revolution: Using the Power of the Individual to Save Our Nation from Extremists (2005).

You can join this three-hour conversation by e-mailing your question to
[e-mail] or by calling in during the program:
East/Central: 202-737-0001 or Mountain/Pacific: 202-737-0002


After Words
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM ET, Sunday 6 and 9 PM ET
In the new book, The Plan: Big Ideas for America, co-authors
Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed present an agenda designed to address the nation’s most pressing challenges. Both served as senior advisors to President Clinton.

Congressman Emanuel discusses the book with Mike Tackett, the Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau Chief.


Other Weekend Highlights
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Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
The author, head of the Human Genome Project, recounts his conversion from atheism
to Christianity. (Saturday 7:55 PM ET, Sunday 7:05 AM ET )

Frederick Hess, Tough Love for Schools
The author explores the practical and political challenges of accountability, competition, and excellence in education. (Saturday 10:00 PM ET)

Pat Buchanan, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
The author argues that illegal immigration is threatening America.
(Sunday 7:00 PM ET, Monday 4:05 AM ET)
2006 Harlem Book Fair: Black Media and Black Stereotypes
The panel features Dick Gregory, William C. Rhoden, Roland S. Martin, Juan Williams, and Rev. Al Sharpton. (Monday 1:30 PM ET)

Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 He examines the handling of the war on terror by the Bush administration and by those on the frontlines of the fight at the State Department, CIA, and other agenices. (Monday 8 PM ET)


The Book TV Bus
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The Book TV Bus is off the road gearing up for the upcoming Fall book festivals. The Bus will continue its nationwide tour of local libraries, bookstores, and festivals to promote Book TV’s unique nonfiction book programming and enhance its local coverage of authors again at the end of September with the National Book Festival in Washington, DC. www.booktvbus.org


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Holiday weekend... one extra day! :)

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Saturday, September 2

8:00 am History on Book TV: Nic Dunlop, The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields

9:15 Public Lives: Matt Ridley, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

10:00 Joel Turtel, Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children

11:05 Steven Freeman, Joel Bleifuss, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count

12:15 pm Paul Hollander, ed., From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States

1:15 History on Book TV: Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History

2:30 2006 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Elliot A. Rosen

3:15 Peter Beinart, William Kristol, Jeffery Goldberg, Lawrence Korb, The Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again

5:00 Eric Boehlert, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush

6:00 Encore Booknotes: Eric Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America

7:00 General Assignment: Rory Stewart, The Places in Between & The Prince of the Marshes

7:55 General Assignment: Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

9:00 After Words: After Words: Rahm Emanuel, co-author of "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," interviewed by Michael Tackett

10:00 General Assignment: Frederick Hess, Tough Love for Schools

11:00 Harry Lewis, Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education

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Sunday, September 3

7:05 am Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

8:10 Rory Stewart, The Places in Between & The Prince of the Marshes

9:00 After Words: Thomas Ricks, author of "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq," interviewed by Col. Jeffrey McCausland (US Army-retired)

10:00 William Cohen, Dragon Fire

11:05 Charles Stevenson, Secdef: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense

12:00 pm In Depth: In Depth: Tammy Bruce

3:00 2006 NABJ Annual Convention - Writing Nonfiction Panel

4:30 Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

6:00 After Words: After Words: Rahm Emanuel, co-author of "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," interviewed by Michael Tackett

7:00 General Assignment: Pat Buchanan, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America

7:55 Public Lives: Gay Talese, A Writer's Life

9:00 After Words: After Words: Rahm Emanuel, co-author of "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," interviewed by Michael Tackett

10:00 General Assignment: William Cohen, Dragon Fire

11:05 General Assignment: Charles Stevenson, Secdef: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense

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Monday, September 4

12:00 am In Depth: In Depth: Tammy Bruce

3:00 Gay Talese, A Writer's Life

4:05 Pat Buchanan, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America

5:00 Charles Stevenson, Secdef: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense

6:00 2006 Printers Row: Robert Remini "The House"

6:55 Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History

8:00 Peter Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

9:15 Priscilla Buckley, Living It Up at National Review: A Memoir

10:00 Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

11:15 Daniel Hendrex, A Soldier's Promise: The Heroic True Story of an American Soldier and an Iraqi Boy

12:15 pm Douglas Murray, Neoconservatism: Why We Need It

1:30 2006 Harlem Book Fair: Black Media and Black Stereotypes

3:00 David Horowitz, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

4:45 Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann, Babylon by Bus

5:30 Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

6:30 Ann Coulter, Godless: The Church of Liberalism

8:00 Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

9:30 Daniel Hendrex, A Soldier's Promise: The Heroic True Story of an American Soldier and an Iraqi Boy

10:30 Michelle Malkin, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild

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Tuesday, September 5

12:00 am Rory Stewart, The Places in Between & The Prince of the Marshes

1:00 Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

2:05 Gordon Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

3:00 David Horowitz, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

5:00 Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

6:30 Daniel Hendrex, A Soldier's Promise: The Heroic True Story of an American Soldier and an Iraqi Boy

7:25 Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann, Babylon by Bus


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