BookTV Schedule: May 10th - 12th

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: May 10-12
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 9 PM, Monday 7 AM ET
Gen. Rupert Smith (Ret.), who commanded British forces during the 1991 Gulf War, argues that our current understanding of war is outdated and that war planners of the future should incorporate both military and political strategies to achieve their goals. He discusses his book with Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.


Weekend Highlights
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Robert Bryce, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence"
In Robert Bryce's Gusher of Lies, he exposes the false promises of energy independence and explains why the US must continue to use and buy foreign energy.
(Sunday 7 PM, Monday 1 AM ET)

William Forstchen and Newt Gingrich, Days of Infamy
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich (R-GA), and William Forstchen present their second novel on World War II. The authors portend what may have happened the days following the Pearl Harbor attack had the Japanese and US naval fleets engaged one another in battle. This event was hosted by Book Revue in Huntington, New York.
(Sunday 7:45 AM and 10 PM ET)

Marc Sandalow, Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times and Rise to Power
In his book, author and journalist Marc Sandalow chronicles the life of Speaker Nancy Pelosi with surprising facts and untold anecdotes. The book concludes with an examination of her first year as Speaker.
(Sunday 10:30 AM ET)



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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, May 10, 2008
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8:00 AM 59 min Who's Your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
Author: Richard Florida

9:00 AM 2 hr, 51 min In Depth: Alice Walker

11:50 AM 7 min 2008 CPAC: Richard Viguerie, "Conservatives Betrayed: : How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause"
Author: Richard Viguerie

12:00 PM 50 min Public Lives
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses 1735-1918
Author: Richard Brookhiser

12:45 PM 4 min Book TV Bus - Aidan Delgado, Author, "The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector"
Author: Aidan Delgado

1:00 PM 57 min History
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Author: Steven Johnson

2:00 PM 39 min History
Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
Author: Adam Clymer

2:35 PM 9 min 2008 CPAC: Linda Bridges & John Coyne, "Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement"
Authors: Linda Bridges; John Coyne

3:00 PM 1 hr, 9 min Politics
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
Authors: Ed Gray; L. Patrick Gray III

4:00 PM 1 hr, 30 min History
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
Authors: Bruce Schulman; Julian Zelizer

5:30 PM 35 min History
Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House
Author: Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes: The Father of Spin
Author: Larry Tye

7:00 PM 1 hr, 34 min Tribute to Philip Roth
Author: Philip Roth

8:30 PM 6 min 2008 CPAC: Mary Beth Brown, "Condi: The Life of a Steel Magnolia"
Author: Mary Beth Brown

8:45 PM 1 hr, 6 min The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Author: Aaron David Miller

9:50 PM 7 min Book TV Bus - Hank Klibanoff, Co-author "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation"
Author: Hank Klibanoff

10:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Gen. Rupert Smith, "The Utility of Force" interviewed by Winslow Wheeler

11:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Author: Daoud Hari


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Sunday, May 11, 2008
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12:00 AM 1 hr, 39 min History
Panel Discussion on the political career of Melvin Laird with Dale Van Atta, author of "With Honor," Jeremi Suri, author of "Henry Kissinger and the American Century," and George Herring author of "America's Longest War"
Authors: George Herring; Jeremi Suri; Dale Van Atta

1:45 AM 1 hr, 34 min Tribute to Philip Roth
Author: Philip Roth

3:15 AM 7 min Book TV Bus - Lou Dobbs "Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit"
Author: Lou Dobbs

3:30 AM 49 min Politics
The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud
Author: Lawrence Solomon

4:15 AM 8 min Book TV Bus - Mildred Armstrong Kalish "Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression"
Author: Mildred Armstrong Kalish

4:30 AM 1 hr, 13 min Public Lives
The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Author: Aram Roston

5:40 AM 13 min 2008 CPAC: Dinesh D'Souza: "What's So Great About Christianity"
Author: Dinesh D'Souza

6:00 AM 1 hr, 39 min History
Panel Discussion on the political career of Melvin Laird with Dale Van Atta, author of "With Honor," Jeremi Suri, author of "Henry Kissinger and the American Century," and George Herring author of "America's Longest War"
Authors: George Herring; Jeremi Suri; Dale Van Atta

7:35 AM 6 min Book TV Bus - James St. Clair, Co-author, "Sherman Minton: Neal Deal Senator, Cold War Justice"
Author: James St. Clair

7:45 AM 1 hr, 9 min Days of Infamy
Authors: William Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

9:00 AM 1 hr, 22 min Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Author: Jeffrey Sachs

10:20 AM 7 min Politics
On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For
Author: Rick Perry

10:30 AM 37 min Public Lives
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times and Rise to Power
Author: Marc Sandalow

11:05 AM 3 min National Press Club Book & Author Night, Margaret Burroughs (Co-author), "Close-ups of History: Three Decades through the Lens of an AP Photographer"
Author: Margaret Burroughs

11:15 AM 49 min Politics
The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud
Author: Lawrence Solomon

12:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min After Words: Wrong on Race, Bruce Bartlett interviewed by Clarence Page

1:00 PM 1 hr, 13 min Public Lives
The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Author: Aram Roston

2:15 PM 44 min Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow
Author: Jim Hightower

3:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Author: Daoud Hari

4:00 PM 1 hr, 39 min History
Panel Discussion on the political career of Melvin Laird with Dale Van Atta, author of "With Honor," Jeremi Suri, author of "Henry Kissinger and the American Century," and George Herring author of "America's Longest War"
Authors: George Herring; Jeremi Suri; Dale Van Atta

6:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Gen. Rupert Smith, "The Utility of Force" interviewed by Winslow Wheeler

7:00 PM 1 hr, 28 min Politics
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence"
Author: Robert Bryce

9:00 PM 1 hr After Words: Gen. Rupert Smith, "The Utility of Force" interviewed by Winslow Wheeler

10:00 PM 1 hr, 9 min Days of Infamy
Authors: William Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

11:15 PM 44 min Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow
Author: Jim Hightower


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Monday, May 12, 2008
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12:00 AM 1 hr After Words: Gen. Rupert Smith, "The Utility of Force" interviewed by Winslow Wheeler

1:00 AM 1 hr, 28 min Politics
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence"
Author: Robert Bryce

2:30 AM 31 min Politics
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Author: Douglas Feith

3:00 AM 1 hr After Words: Gen. Rupert Smith, "The Utility of Force" interviewed by Winslow Wheeler

4:00 AM 57 min History
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
Authors: Paul Kendrick; Stephen Kendrick

5:00 AM 1 hr, 27 min History
Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Author: David Reynolds

6:30 AM 1 hr, 22 min Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Author: Jeffrey Sachs

7:50 AM 6 min Book TV Bus - Alton Keith Gilbert "A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander"
Author: Alton Keith Gilbert

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

[housewolf]

1. Thanks, Viva...

Looks like at least a few things of interest this weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing Marc Sandalow's talk on Nancy Pelosi.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I hope I have time to catch that too...

but I just moved, still unpacking... and come hell or high water, I WILL get the garden in this weekend! :)

[EFerrari]

3. K&R. Thank you, Viva.

:)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. In Depth: Alice Walker

Alice Walker joined us for In Depth from her home in Berkeley, California. Ms. Walker is the author of over twenty-five books, including “The Third Life of Grange Copeland,” “Living by the Word,” “Warrior,” “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens,” “Anything We Love Can Be Saved,” “We are the One’s We Have Been Waiting For” and “The Color Purple” that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award in 1983.


Ms. Walker is the author of "Once," (1968) "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," (1970) "Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems," (1973) "In Love & Trouble," (1973) "Langston Hughes, American Poet" (1974) "Meridan," (1976) "I Love Myself When I am Laughing...and Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader" (editor, 1979) "Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning," (1979) "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down," (1981) "The Color Purple," (1982) "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," (1983) "Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful," (1985) "To Hell With Dying," (1988) "Living by the Word," (1988) "The Temple of the Familiar," (1989) "Her Blue Body Everything We Know," (1991) "Finding the Green Stone," (1991) "Possessing the Secret of Joy," (1992) "Warrior Marks," (1993) "The Same River Twice," (1996) "Banned" (1996) "Anything We Love Can Be Saved," (1997) "By the Light of My Father's Smile," (1998) "The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart," (2000) "Sent By Earth," (2001) "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of Earth," (2003) "A Poem Traveled Down My Arm," (2003) "Now is the Time to Open Your Heart," (2004) "There is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me," (2006) "We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For," (2006) "There is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me," and "Why War is Never a Good Idea." (2007)

[eleny]

7. I watched this last week and it was terrific

Thanks so much for posting the entire weekend schedule.

About the Alice Walker interview, I so enjoyed visiting her and her home via the interview. Although I saw the film of Color Purple I've never read any of her books. But I was prompted to get Temple when she said it was her favorite. And, oh, what a book! I'm halfway through it and will be sorry when I finish it.

[EFerrari]

8. Peter did a great job! I was pleasantly surprised.

Walker has about the sweetest smile I've ever seen. :)

[Bozita]

5. Thank you, Viva.

We missed you last week.

[EFerrari]

6. Kick

[librechik]

9. Nothing but Righties on Book tv this weekend --AGAIN!!

sick o this. Seems like the proportion is about 3 to 1, but it's a celebration of conservatives this weekend, and not the first one, either.

thanks for being so responsive to the populace, cable tv.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

10. Call me Kickey McRecpost!!

Allo Viva m'dear :hi: :loveya: :hug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. Happy Mother's Day! Kick!