Book TV Schedule: November 18th - 20th

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: November 18-20
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After Words
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 9 PM, Monday 6 AM ET*
In his book, The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, author John O'Sullivan describes the fall of the Soviet empire and the central roles played by President Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Mr. O’Sullivan discusses the book with Martin Walker, a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

*Please note that the usual Sunday 6 PM showing of After Words will be preempted by coverage from the Miami Book Fair International.


Weekend Highlights - Miami Book Fair International
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On Sunday, November 19, beginning at 10:55 AM, join us for live and taped coverage from the 2006 Miami Book Fair International.

Mark Kurlansky, Tom Hayden, Chris Hedges, Nonviolence Panel
(LIVE Sunday 11 AM ET)

Christopher Hitchens, Francine Prose, Edmund Morris, James Atlas
Biography Panel
(LIVE Sunday 12:30 PM ET)

Daniel Mendelsohn, Kati Marton, Rosemary Sullivan, Holocaust Panel
(LIVE Sunday 2 PM ET)

Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
(LIVE Sunday 3:30 PM ET)

Amy Goodman & Paul Robeson Jr., Political Panel
(Sunday 4:30 PM ET)

Doro Bush Koch, My Father, My President
(LIVE Sunday 6 PM ET)


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BOOK TV Schedule

Note: Program start times are approximate and all times are Eastern.


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Saturday, November 18

8:00 am Tariq Ali, Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope

9:35 Yonah Alexander with Frank Cilluffo, Peter Leitner, Kersi Shroff, Richard Weitz, Counterterrorism Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations

11:40 2006 AUSA - C.E. Wood "Mud: A Military History"

12:05 pm History on Book TV: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

1:15 2006 AUSA - John Scales "Sherman Invades Georgia"

1:35 Jeffrey Meyer and Mark Califano, Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the U.N.

2:30 Murray Seeger, Discovering Russia: 200 Years of American Journalism

3:30 2006 Great Read in the Park: Memoir Panel-Daniel Mendelsohn, Malika Oufkir, Abigail Thomas and Edmund White, Moderated by Charles McGrath

4:15 2006 Texas Book Festival: Alicia Shepard "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate"

4:35 2006 Fall Books Preview-Harold Holzer-New Lincoln Books

5:00 Steven Smith, Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism

6:00 Encore Booknotes: Tom Wheeler, Take Command!: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War

7:00 Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

8:15 2006 AUSA - John Scales "Sherman Invades Georgia"

8:35 2006 Fall Books Preview-Harold Holzer-New Lincoln Books

9:00 After Words: After Words: John O' Sullivan, author of "The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister" interviewed by Martin Walker, senior fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center

9:55 BTV BUS: Faye Belgrave "African American Psychology : From Africa to America"

10:00 2006 National Book Awards Ceremony

11:25 BTV BUS: Faye Belgrave "African American Psychology : From Africa to America"

11:30 Timothy Egan, National Book Award Winner The Worst Hard Time


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Sunday, November 19

12:00 am In Depth: Milton Friedman

3:00 Yonah Alexander with Frank Cilluffo, Peter Leitner, Kersi Shroff, Richard Weitz, Counterterrorism Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations

5:05 Rodric Braithwaite, Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War

6:35 2006 Fall Books Preview-Sara Nelson, Publisher's Weekly Editor-in-Chief

6:50 2006 CBC - Ivory Achebe Toldson "Black Sheep: When the American Dream Becomes a Black Man's Nightmare"

7:00 Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

8:10 2006 AUSA - John Scales "Sherman Invades Georgia"

8:30 History on Book TV: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

9:35 2006 Fall Books Preview-Harold Holzer-New Lincoln Books

9:55 James A. Baker, III, "Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!": Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life

10:40 2006 Fall Books Preview-Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review, Editor-in-Chief

11:00 Featured Program: 2006 Miami Book Fair International

7:00 pm General Assignment: 2006 National Book Awards Ceremony

8:25 BTV BUS: Faye Belgrave "African American Psychology : From Africa to America"

8:30 Timothy Egan, National Book Award Winner The Worst Hard Time

9:00 After Words: After Words: John O' Sullivan, author of "The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister" interviewed by Martin Walker, senior fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center

10:00 Featured Program: 2006 Miami Book Fair International


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Monday, November 20

6:00 am After Words: After Words: John O' Sullivan, author of "The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister" interviewed by Martin Walker, senior fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center

6:55 2006 CBC - Jabari Asim "Daddy Goes to Work"

7:00 Ian Buruma, Murder In Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance


http://www.booktv.org/schedule/


Renoir

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1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope

On Saturday, November 18 at 8:00 am
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
Tariq Ali

From the Embassy of Venezuela in Washington, DC, Tariq Ali discusses the rise of Latin American leaders Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales and the new populist movement that they represent. He also talks about the Bush administration's policies towards Venezuela and the influence of Fidel Castro in the region. Includes Q&A.

Tariq Ali has written several books on world history and politics, as well as scripts for the stage and screen. His books include "The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity," "Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq," and "Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties." For more, visit www.tariqali.org.

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2. Counterterrorism Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations

On Saturday, November 18 at 9:35 am and Sunday, November 19 at 3:00 am
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Counterterrorism Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations
Yonah Alexander with Frank Cilluffo, Peter Leitner, Kersi Shroff, Richard Weitz

"Counterterrorism Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations" argues that the worst is yet to come in terms of global terrorism, but that ultimately, civilization will survive. its effects. Contributors to this volume to examine how Germany, Italy, France, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and the United States have dealt with terrorism, with varying degrees of success, over the last thirty years. Counterterrorism strategies suggested include further empowering law enforcement, fostering international cooperation and attempting to internally divide the enemy. Editor Yonah Alexander discusses the book with contributors Matthias Sonn, Frank Cilluffo, Peter Leitner, Kersi Shroff and Richard Weitz at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.

Yonah Alexander is a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and the director of its International Center for Terrorism Studies. He is also the director of the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies. He has authored and contributed to over 90 books related to terrorism.

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3. 2006 AUSA - C.E. Wood "Mud: A Military History"

On Saturday, November 18 at 11:40 am
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2006 AUSA - C.E. Wood "Mud: A Military History"

C.E. Wood looks at the way mud has affected soldiers in battles going back to the Civil War. The author, a former Marine, cites soldiers' memoirs and interviews he conducted to describe how mud has played a significant role in shaping the morale of troops. This presentation was part of the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in Washington, DC.

C. E. Wood teaches history at Glenville State College in West Virginia.

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4. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

On Saturday, November 18 at 12:05 pm and Sunday, November 19 at 8:30 am
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan

In the 1930s parts of America experienced blinding dust storms - millions of tons of dirt blowing across the vast expanses of flat land. This is the subject of New York Times reporter Timothy Egan's new book, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl." In it, the author chronicles the sacrifices made by families living in the Dust Bowl. Nearly 250,000 people were displaced in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado dealt with the suffocating dust storms that ravaged nearly one hundred million acres of the America's Great Plains. This program was recorded in January 2006. Recently, this book received the National Book Award for nonfiction.

Timothy Egan has written four books, including "The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest." He was part of the New York Times reporting team who received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for work exploring racial attitudes throughout America. He is currently a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times. On Wednesday, November 15th, he won the 2006 National Book Award for non-fiction.

Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN 215 Park Avenue south New York, NY 10003

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27. kick!

I'll be missing this one, I have to go to work. :(


Francisco deQuevedo

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33. This was Really Great, Very Moving; I Will be Buying This Book--Brilliant

This book, about the Dust Bowl during the Depression, won the 2006 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, and from what I heard on this program, deserved it. This was just brilliantly told, spellbinding, and a tribute to those who suffered it, that their stories will live. This is why you read history. The whole project apparently started when the author, Timothy Egan, got a request to write a story, after the 2000 Census, on why the small towns of the Great Plains were losing their populations and dying. It led to a book.

The talk began with a description of the Plains area and history--helpful for those of us who know little or nothing--on the endless flat desert or, at one time, grassland, the wind that blows forever, the migration of people from other parts of the world and how they brought new plants, sometimes inadvertently, and their mainly farming life. It was a world of small towns, and other than that, "miles and miles of nothing." Millions of buffalo lived on the Plains, and few people; the huge area of grassland was used as grazing by animals living there, and during cattle drives. The problem began as the human population increased over time, and complete disaster happened with the stock market crash and the Depression.

Arriving in a small town in (I think it was) Colorado, the author found the strange and haunting appearance of the tops--only the tops--of fenceposts sticking out of the ground, and all the rest buried, and went searching for possible Dust Bowl survivors to tell their stories. Most of the rest of the program was on those stories, beautifully told. There was a lot of detail on how the people actually lived, and descriptions of things I never would have known about. Most people know that they sealed up their whole houses as well as possible, with damp towels covering all openings--windows, doors, holes or cracks--to try to keep out dirt and dust during a real storm, and wore surgical masks all the time outside, but there were other stories: about how the huge dust storms created their own static electricity, and vehicles being driven would short out and die, unless people put chains on them, and let the chains drag on the ground behind, to keep it grounded. Sometimes that was not enough, and many vehicles died, and were abandoned. People drove by having one side of the vehicle--two wheels--off the road on the embankment, and the other side on the road, so that they could feel their way along, being uneven that way, they knew they were going straight forward, because they could not see. There were many stories like this, bringing it all to life, as you learned their daily behavior.

This disaster, part natural (an unprecedented multi-year drought, and the area's constant winds), partly caused by over-use farming methods, happened during the Depression, bringing a second, grand-scale tragedy to the story. Before the era of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Federally insured banks, and all the rest of the New Deal and beyond, there was no help at all for destitute, unemployed people, and the author had many stories here of total devastation to towns--schools actually closed because there was no money to pay anyone, or keep things running, City services were completely cut, etc.--and people actually starved. Survivors told of eating tumbleweeds, and of their entire herds of cattle dying of starvation. A 1935 telegram from an Oklahoma town to the White House pleaded, "80% of us are living in semi-starvation. Need help now. Desperate." Many towns had similar urgent pleas of this type, sent to Washington, D.C., and thank God they went to Franklin Roosevelt, and not to these frigid, dead, blocks of ice Bush or Cheney.

There was a very moving story about a woman the author met, Hazel, whose baby, Ruth Nell, got "dirt pneumonia," impossible to avoid in those conditions of constant dust storm, and who died after a very short life of little other than coughing and crying. There were other very moving stories, such as the then-locally famous "Coffee-Box Baby," found on the church steps, who was adopted and died after, from the same illness. Many people, the author discovered, gave their children away, because they were starving, and the parents thought they were all going to die. If they gave them up to someone who had anything, their children at least, might live. There was a really interesting story, verified, about Hugh Bennett, trying to get a Soil Conservation Services Act passed before the Senate, who happened to be addressing them on the very day of the worst single storm of the Dust Bowl, April 14, 1935, Black Sunday. Word had gotten to members of Bennett's staff that there was a horrific dust storm, so bad that it was--as a few had already before--spreading across the entire country, from the West all the way to the Atlantic Coast. They told Bennett to keep talking, a "filibuster," as this thing approached. At 2 PM, it hit the Capitol, and Bennett told them this is what the bill was about. There was dust from the storm on the streets of Washington D.C. itself. They passed it that day, and Roosevelt signed it into law the next day.

This was a monumentally tragic experience suffered by all who lived there, another part of the Depression, but it tends to get less attention than the stories from the big cities, and especially now, that most of the people who lived it, are dying, or gone. A great deal of good legislation and programs came out of the Dust Bowl and the rest--from great C.C.C. programs, re-planting the area, teaching conservation techniques, etc.--and the soil and farm programs. People who do not understand why Roosevelt paid farmers not to plant crops, but to let the fields lie fallow, can now realize that this was one of the main reasons--it let the ground return to its natural state, regrown with grass as here, and paid the farmers for their losses. It was the complete plowing up of the area, combined with drought, that caused the disaster. There was nothing stopping it. The problem nowadays is that they are using the natural, underground aquafer at an unsustainable rate, and have replaced over-tilling with artifical chemical fertilizers; agribusiness, not family farms.

The author, Timothy Egan, over and over expressed admiration for the people of this generation, who lived though all this, and for their great diary writings about it--people kept written records of things then. This was a fabulous telling of this story, and I am going to buy this book. It goes right along with "Hard Times" by Studs Terkel, as the true voice of the people of the Depression. Not only to learn of their lives and history, but also because all of a sudden, all this is looming over us, again.

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34. thanks HS!

you always do such GREAT write-ups!

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5. 2006 AUSA - John Scales "Sherman Invades Georgia"

On Saturday, November 18 at 1:15 pm and at 8:15 pm and Sunday, November 19 at 8:10 am
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2006 AUSA - John Scales "Sherman Invades Georgia"

From the Association of the United States Army annual conference in Washington, DC, John Scales recounts the history of Major General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Mr. Scales examines the way Sherman planned the invasion and maneuvered his troops.

John Scales served in the U.S. Army in 1970 after completing Reserve Officer Training. He was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for his service in Vietnam. Currently, he is a Deputy Commanding General for the United States Army Special Forces Command in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

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6. Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the U.N.

On Saturday, November 18 at 1:35 pm
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Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the U.N.
Jeffrey Meyer and Mark Califano

From Duke University Law School in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, Jeffrey Meyer and Mark Califano report the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to investigate mismanagement and abuse of the UN's oil-for-food program, which was devised to alleviate starvation in Iraq. The book "Good Intentions Corrupted" is based on the committee's findings. In the book, authors Meyer and Califano describe the nature of the corruption, what the UN Security Council knew about the abuses, the involvement of Kofi Annan's son, and Saddam Hussein's profiteering.

Jeffrey Meyer was senior counsel to the Independent Inquiry Committee and currently is an associate professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Mark Califano was chief legal counsel to the Independent Inquiry Committee and is a former US Department of Justice criminal prosecutor. Paul Volcker, who wrote the introduction to "Good Intentions Corrupted," was Chairman of the Independent Inquiry Committee. Mr. Volcker is the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.

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7. Discovering Russia: 200 Years of American Journalism

On Saturday, November 18 at 2:30 pm
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Discovering Russia: 200 Years of American Journalism
Murray Seeger

"Discovering Russia: 200 Years of American Journalism" traces how American reporting on Russia has evolved throughout the Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. The author's examples of journalists range from former US President John Quincy Adams to Bolshevik-revolution era spy Marguerite Harrison. Mr. Seeger also describes his run-ins with the KGB while working as a correspondent in Moscow in the 1970's. The lecture was hosted by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

Author and journalist Murray Seeger has studied Russia for over 40 years. In 1972 he was appointed Moscow bureau chief for the LA Times. He has also reported for the New York Times and Newsweek.

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8. 2006 Great Read in the Park: Memoir Panel

On Saturday, November 18 at 3:30 pm
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2006 Great Read in the Park: Memoir Panel-Daniel Mendelsohn, Malika Oufkir, Abigail Thomas and Edmund White, Moderated by Charles McGrath

From the 2006 Great Read in the Park, New York Time Writer-At-Large Charles McGrath moderates a panel discussion on memoir writing. Panelists are Daniel Mendelsohn, author of "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million;" "Malika Oufkir, author of "Freedom: The Story of My Second Life;" Abigail Thomas, author of "A Three Dog Life;" and Edmund White, author of "My Lives: An Autobiography."

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9. 2006 Fall Books Preview-Harold Holzer-New Lincoln Books

On Saturday, November 18 at 4:35 pm and at 8:35 pm and Sunday, November 19 at 9:35 am
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2006 Fall Books Preview-Harold Holzer-New Lincoln Books

From his office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer recommends new book titles relating to Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Holzer argues that we are in a sort of "golden age" of Lincoln books now as there are so many works of high quality being published.

Harold Holzer has written and edited over 20 books on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era. His 2004 work "Lincoln at the Cooper Union" won the lincoln prize. You can learn more about Mr. Holzer at his website: www.haroldholzer.com

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10. Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism

On Saturday, November 18 at 5:00 pm
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Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
Steven Smith

Steven Smith argues the published writings of German-born philosopher Leo Strauss are misread and that Leo Strauss would not embrace neoconservatism. The author alleges that Leo Strauss was not active in politics, never endorsed imperialism, and questioned political philosophies. In a discussion held in Wilmette, Illinois, he examines Leo Strauss' views on religion, philosophy and politics.

Steven Smith is a political science professor at Yale University. He has authored several books, including "Spinoza, Liberalism, and Jewish Identity," "Spinoza's Book of Life," and "The Rescue: A True Story of Courage & Survival in World War II."

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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11. Take Command!: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War

On Saturday, November 18 at 6:00 pm
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Take Command!: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War
Tom Wheeler

In "Take Command" telecommunications CEO Tom Wheeler uses the leadership strategies of the Civil War to provide guidance to business leaders. In an interview from 1993, Mr. Wheeler details specific battlefield decisions that he says will be effective in today's corporate battles.

Tom Wheeler is the President and CEO of Shiloh Group, LLC, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services. Mr. Wheeler serves on the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and is President of the Foundation for the National Archives.

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12. John Edwards ?

A DUer who was at the DC book signing this week thought he saw Cspan in attendance as in lots of light and cameras?

Just hoping, didn't see him on the schedule :cry:

As always, thanks for the list :hi:

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17. sometimes it takes a week or two before they get aired

I'm anxiously awaiting it too. :)

and you're welcome :D

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13. Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Cent.

On Saturday, November 18 at 7:00 pm
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Robert Kagan
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/1006/btv102906_4.ram

Robert Kagan talks about U.S. influence in the world going back to the days of the Puritans. He argues that the U.S. has been increasing its global power steadily for centuries and says that the idea that the U.S. was once an isolationist power is a myth. Following Mr. Kagan's remarks, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman comments on the book and engages in a debate with Mr. Kagan about some of the claims he makes. This event was hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Robert Kagan is the author of "Of Paradise and Power" and co-editor of "Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy." He writes a monthly column for the Washington Post. Mr. Kagan is currently a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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28. kick!

Manet

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14. After Words: John O' Sullivan interviewed by Martin Walker

On Saturday, November 18 at 9:00 pm and Sunday, November 19 at 9:00 pm and Monday, November 20 at 6:00 am
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After Words: John O' Sullivan, author of "The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister" interviewed by Martin Walker, senior fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center

In his book, The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, author John O’Sullivan describes the fall of the Soviet empire and the central roles played by President Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Mr. O’Sullivan covered the Reagan presidency as a journalist and served as a special adviser to Prime Minister Thatcher. Mr. O’Sullivan discusses the book with Martin Walker, a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and editor emeritus for United Press International. Mr. Walker serves as a guest interviewer and is not an employee of C-SPAN.

John O’Sullivan served as a special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is a veteran journalist in both the US and the UK. He has served as editor in chief of The National Review, The National Interest, Policy Review, and United Press International. He was also editorial page editor for the New York Post and the London Times. He is currently editor at large for the National Review, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

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15. 2006 National Book Awards Ceremony

On Saturday, November 18 at 10:00 pm and Sunday, November 19 at 7:00 pm
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2006 National Book Awards Ceremony

Book TV presents the 57th Annual National Book Awards ceremony from New York City, emceed by Fran Lebowitz. Robert Silvers and posthumously Barbara Epstein received the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Adrienne Rich was the recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. National Book Awards were presented to: Timothy Egan, author of "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl" (nonfiction), Richard Powers, author of "The Echo Maker" (fiction), Nathaniel Mackey, author of "Splay Anthem" (poetry), and M.T. Anderson, author of "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party" (young people's literature.)

The Board of Directors of the National Book Awards established the National Book Foundation in 1989, which, along with organizing and hosting the National Book Awards, works to promote reading through various outlets. For more information on the awards, visit www.nationalbook.org.

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16. National Book Award Winner The Worst Hard Time

On Saturday, November 18 at 11:30 pm and Sunday, November 19 at 8:30 pm
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National Book Award Winner The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan

In the 1930s parts of America experienced blinding dust storms - millions of tons of dirt blowing across the vast expanses of flat land. This is the subject of New York Times reporter Timothy Egan's new book, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl." In it, the author chronicles the sacrifices made by families living in the Dust Bowl. Nearly 250,000 people were displaced in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado dealt with the suffocating dust storms that ravaged nearly one hundred million acres of the America's Great Plains. This program was recorded in January 2006. Recently, this book received the National Book Award for nonfiction.

Timothy Egan has written four books, including "The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest." He was part of the New York Times reporting team who received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for work exploring racial attitudes throughout America. He is currently a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times. On Wednesday, November 15th, he won the 2006 National Book Award for non-fiction.

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18. In Depth: Milton Friedman

Sunday, November 19th at 12am

Thursday, November 16, 2006, Milton Friedman died at his home in San Francisco. He is survived by his wife Rose, daughter Janet, and son David.

"Milton was an intellectual entrepreneur, with an insatiable curiosity and a passion for clear thinking," said Bob Chitester, who produced the Friedman's popular PBS television series "Free to Choose", and whose new biography of Friedman, "The Power of Choice", will air nationally on PBS stations on January 29, 2007.

"He set forth ideas without regard to their popularity or acceptability. He has been equally tough on himself and others in his search for tools of analysis that consistently and accurately predict outcomes in both micro and macro economics. And he has never compromised the resulting analysis to please those in power. Such courage is essential to the survival of a free society," Chitester said.
http://www.ideachannel.com/Friedman.htm


Filmed September 3, 2000

Mr. Friedman spoke about his career as an author and economist as well as his body of work. Among the topics he addressed were the influence of the Chicago school of economics, his perceptions of past presidential administrations, and America's attitudes toward money. He also responded to viewer questions and comments and was later joined by his wife. This program has a five minute break at approximately the two hour mark before continuing with the interview.

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29. RIP Kick!

Rembrant

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19. Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War

On Sunday, November 19 at 5:05 am
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Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War
Rodric Braithwaite
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/history/1006/btv102106_1.ram

"Moscow 1941" is Rodric Braithwaite's social history of Germany's 1941 attack on Russia. The author, a former British ambassador in Moscow, describes the attack as the turning point of World War II and uses interviews and diaries to describe the personal reactions of several people affected by the invasion. Almost one million Russians died by the end of the year. This event was hosted by the Harriman Institute on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.

Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow from 1988 to 1992. He is also the author of "Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down."

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20. The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

On Sunday, November 19 at 7:00 am
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The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Niall Ferguson

Historian Niall Ferguson examines the conflicts of the First World War to the Cold War and how they influenced the twentieth century. He argues that globalization, wealth, technological breakthroughs have created violence, genocide and fanaticism in our societies. He draws on history, economics and evolutionary theory in concluding the decline of Western dominance. The talk was hosted by the World Affairs Council in Washington, DC. Includes Q&A.

Niall Ferguson is the author of several books including "Paper and Iron," "The Cash Nexus," and "The Pity of War." He currently is a history professor at Harvard University, Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Times.

Publisher: The Penguin Press

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32. C-Span had this on late-night last night. It was great

and a kick

:kick:

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21. "Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!" Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life

On Sunday, November 19 at 9:55 am
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"Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!": Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life
James A. Baker, III
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/publiclives/1106/btv110506_2.ram

In "Work Hard, Study . . .and Keep Out of Politics!" President George H.W. Bush's secretary of state James A. Baker III chronicles his career in politics. The author's political career began shortly after the death of his wife when he was asked to work on George H.W. Bush's senatorial campaign. At an event hosted by the Houston World Affairs Council, Secretary Baker discusses his time working in both the Ford and Reagan administrations and shares his thoughts on the 2000 presidential election Supreme Court decision.

James A. Baker III served as the nation's 61st secretary of state, from January 1989 through August 1992, under President George H.W. Bush. Secretary Baker served as White House chief of staff to President Reagan from 1981 to 1985 and as under secretary of commerce to President Gerald Ford beginning in 1975. He currently co-chairs the Iraq Study Group, a panel of prominent former officials charged by members of Congress with taking a fresh look at America's policy on Iraq, with former Democratic Representative Lee H. Hamilton.

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22. 2006 Miami Book Fair International

On Sunday, November 19 at 11:00 am
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2006 Miami Book Fair International

Book TV brings you live and taped coverage from the 2006 Miami Book Fair International. Coverage includes LIVE panels on nonviolence (with Mark Kurlansky, Tom Hayden, and Chris Hedges), biography writing (with Christopher Hitchens, Francine Prose, Edmund Morris, and James Atlas), and the Holocaust (with Daniel Mendelsohn, Kati Marton, and Rosemary Sullivan). Also included are LIVE talks by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Doro Bush Koch and a taped discussion on politics with Amy Goodman and Paul Robeson, Jr.

Live 11am ET
Nonviolence Panel

Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence
Tom Hayden, The Lost Gospel of the Earth
Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway

Live 12:30pm ET
Biography Panel

Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson
Francine Prose on Caravaggio
Edmund Morris on Beethoven
James Atlas, moderator

Live 2pm ET
Holocaust Panel

Daniel Mendelsohn, Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Kati Marton, The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Rosemary Sullivan, Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

Live 3:30pm ET
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

4:30pm
Political Panel with Amy Goodman & Paul Robeson, Jr.

Live 6pm ET
Doro Bush Koch, My Father, My President

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35. Mark Kurlansky is a terrific author. He also wrote "1968"

which is the most comprehensive and cogent account of student and political unrest in that year that I've ever read.

http://www.amazon.com/1968-Year-That-Rocked-World/dp/0345455827/sr=1-1/qid=1163993795/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5472985-1420009?ie=UTF8&s=books

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23. Murder In Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

On Monday, November 20 at 7:00 am
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Murder In Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma

"Murder in Amsterdam" is author Ian Buruma’s exploration of the tension between the Dutch natives and the Muslim immigrants living in Holland during the 2004 murder of media personality Theo van Gogh. Mr. Van Gogh’s murderer, a Muslim, targeted the outspoken Dutchmen because he created a documentary criticizing Islam’s treatment of women. The author uses this case to argue against the commonly-held idea that Holland is a supremely tolerant nation. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC hosted the event.

Dutch-born Ian Buruma is a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College in New York. His other books include "Conversations with John Schlesinger" and "Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Their Enemies." For more information on Mr. Buruma and his work, visit www.ianburuma.com.

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36. This should be interesting. TG for TIVO!

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Pinakothek

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25. Kick to front page.

So much work you do! I depend on this every Saturday, and I usually miss a good program or two before come in to read. I had to search it out this week! I guess we are too complacent with our win.
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26. thanks for the kick!

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30. g'nite kick!

Burkhart

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37. last kick!

see ya'll next week. :hi:



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