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Saturday, January 17, 2009 - Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday at 8:45 PM, Sunday at 2:00 AM, and Sunday at 9:45 AM
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author:
Barack Obama
Saturday at 10:00 PM, Sunday at 6:00 PM, Sunday at 9:00 PM, Monday at 12:00 AM, and Monday at 3:00 AM
After Words: Robert Bork, author of "A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments" interviewed by Eugene Meyer
Public Lives
Sunday at 2:15 PM, Sunday at 8:00 PM, and Monday at 4:00 AM
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author:
Barack Obama
Politics
Saturday at 8:00 AM, Sunday at 1:00 AM, Sunday at 3:15 PM, and Sunday at 7:00 PM
Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of the 2008 Fight for the Presidency
Author:
Matt Towery
Politics
Saturday at 9:00 AM, and Monday at 5:00 AM
Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
Author:
Gil Troy
History
Saturday at 10:00 AM
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Author:
Thomas Sugrue
Saturday at 11:00 AM, Sunday at 12:00 AM, and Sunday at 7:00 AM
Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back
Authors:
Gar Alperovitz; Lew Daly
History
Saturday at 12:00 PM
Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
Author:
Rufus Phillips
Saturday at 1:15 PM
The Irish Americans: A History
Author:
Jay Dolan
Saturday at 2:00 PM, and Sunday at 3:00 AM
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "His Excellency, George Washington"
Author:
Joseph Ellis
Saturday at 3:00 PM, and Sunday at 4:00 AM
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "Traitor to His Class"
Author:
H.W. Brands
Saturday at 4:00 PM, and Sunday at 5:00 AM
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "Harry S. Truman"
Author:
Robert Dallek
History
Saturday at 5:00 PM, and Sunday at 6:00 AM
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
Author:
George Herring
Saturday at 7:00 PM, and Monday at 1:30 AM
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Author:
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)
Saturday at 8:00 PM
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Authors:
Bryan Burrough; John Helyar
Politics
Saturday at 11:00 PM, Sunday at 8:00 AM, and Monday at 1:00 AM
Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
Author:
John Talbott
Public Lives
Saturday at 11:30 PM, and Monday at 2:30 AM
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
Author:
Jenna Bush
Politics
Sunday at 8:30 AM
What Would Martin Say?
Author:
Clarence Jones
History
Sunday at 11:00 AM, and Sunday at 5:00 PM
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
Author:
Calvin Mackenzie
Sunday at 12:00 PM
After Words: Chris Horner, "Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed," interviewed by Jed Babbin, Editor, Human Events
Sunday at 1:00 PM
In Defense of the Bush Doctrine
Author:
Robert Kaufman
Politics
Sunday at 4:15 PM
The Faith of Barack Obama
Author:
Stephen Mansfield
History
Sunday at 10:00 PM, and Monday at 6:00 AM
Judgment Days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Author:
Nick Kotz
Public Lives
Sunday at 11:00 PM, and Monday at 7:00 AM
Michelle
Author:
Liza Mundy
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After Words: Chris Horner, "Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed," interviewed by Jed Babbin, Editor, Human Events
Politics
The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
Author:
Gene Healy
In Depth: Bill Gertz
War + Peace: A Photographer's Journey
Author:
Reza (Photographer)
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"
Author:
Jon Meacham
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "Herbert Hoover"
Author:
William Leuchtenburg
Washington Journal Series on Presidents: "The Hemingses of Monticello"
Author:
Annette Gordon-Reed
Public Lives
Willis Carto and the American Far Right
Author:
George Michael
Strength and Compassion
Author:
Eric Greitens
Public Lives
Renegade for Peace & Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks for Me
Author:
Barbara Lee
History
Titanic's Last Secrets
Authors:
John Chatterton; Richie Kohler; Brad Matsen
Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East
Author:
Edward Djerejian
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Author:
Fred Pearce
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Palestine Inside and Out: An Everyday Occupation
Author:
Saree Makdisi
Politics
With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America
Author:
Douglas Hicks
After Words: Jay Parini, "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America," interviewed by Sam Tanenhaus, Editor, New York Times Book Review
History
New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy has Damaged America
Author:
Burton Folsom
Politics
The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
Author:
Alvin Felzenberg
Politics
High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Author:
Peter Gosselin
Politics
The Faith of Barack Obama
Author:
Stephen Mansfield
2008 Miami Book Fair: Carl Hiaasen, "The Downhill Lie: A Hackers Return to a Ruinous Sport" and Roy Blount Jr., "Alphabet Juice"
Authors:
Roy Blount Jr.; Carl Hiassen
Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement (1:26:23)
Author:
Zaki Chehab
Strength and Compassion
Author:
Eric Greitens
History
Michael Burlingame, "Abraham Lincoln: A Life"
Author:
Michael Burlingame
History
1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
Author:
Benny Morris
2007 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair: Dan Walker
Author:
Dan Walker
Politics
2008 BookExpo America: Interview with Rev. Dr. Cindi Love author of "Would Jesus Discriminate?: The 21st Century Question"
Author:
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love
Public Lives
2008 Eagle Forum: Benjamin Wiker "10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help"
Author:
Benjamin Wiker
Politics
2008 Harlem Book Fair: State of Civil Rights
Authors:
Keli Goff; Edgar Ridley; Anthony Samad
2008 Miami Book Fair - Cornel West and Tavis Smiley
Authors:
Tavis Smiley; Cornel West
2008 Miami Book Fair: Salman Rushdie, "The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel"
Authors:
Nathan Englander; Salman Rushdie
2008 National Book Awards Ceremony
Author:
2008 National Book Awards
History
2008 National Book Festival: Michael Dobbs, "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War"
Author:
Michael Dobbs
History
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Author:
Stephen Mihm
A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet
Author:
Andrew Chaikin
A Short History of the United States
Author:
Robert Remini
A Tour of Pat Buchanan's Library
Author:
Patrick Buchanan
After Words: Bill Gertz, "The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War" interviewed by Frank Gaffney
After Words: Rahm Emanuel, co-author of "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," interviewed by Michael Tackett
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof: Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences, With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Author:
Roy Blount Jr.
History
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Author:
Howard Blum
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Authors:
Bryan Burrough; John Helyar
Public Lives
Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein
Author:
Michael Newton
Politics
High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Author:
Peter Gosselin
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
Author:
Michael Gazzaniga
Public Lives
Illustrator & Political Cartoonist David Levine
Author:
David Levine
In Defense of the Bush Doctrine
Author:
Robert Kaufman
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Author:
Thomas DeWolf
History
Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Birthplace of the American Ideal
Authors:
Kenneth Garrett; David McCullough
Public Lives
Letter To My Daughter
Author:
Maya Angelou
History
Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861
Author:
Harold Holzer
Public Lives
Michelle
Author:
Liza Mundy
History
Never Been A Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked The Civil Rights Movement
Author:
Harper Barnes
Politics
Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Author:
Riki Ott
Politics
Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
Author:
John Talbott
History
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
Author:
Charles Cobb
History
Panel Discussion on the American Presidency with Presidential biographers and historians Robert Caro, Ted Sorensen, and Bob Clark
Authors:
James Atlas; Robert Caro; Bob Clark; Ted Sorensen
Pat Buchanan on the Research for his book, "Churchill, Hitler, and the Uneccesary War"
Author:
Patrick Buchanan
Public Lives
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
Authors:
Lee Allen Peterson; Roger Tory Peterson
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Author:
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)
Reading Khamenei
Author:
Karim Sadjadpour
History
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Shorter version)
Author:
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
History
Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
Authors:
Bruce Schulman; Julian Zelizer
History
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
Author:
Noah Andre Trudeau
Public Lives
Stand for the Best: What I Learned After Leaving My Job as CEO of H&R Block to Become a Teacher and Founder of an Inner-City Charter School
Author:
Thomas Bloch
History
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
Author:
Stephen Budiansky
The Future of Independent Publishing
Author:
Andre Schiffrin
Politics
The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
Author:
Alvin Felzenberg
History
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Author:
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Politics
The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive
Author:
Marvelyn Brown
Public Lives
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Author:
Alice Schroeder
The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
Author:
Jeff Shaara
The Story of Science
Author:
Joy Hakim
Politics
The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008
Author:
Bob Woodward
History
Tried by War: Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
Author:
James McPherson
History
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters from FDR to George W. Bush
Author:
Robert Schlesinger
Writing Discussion with Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King
Authors:
Owen King; Stephen King; Tabitha King
In Depth: Richard John Neuhaus
Lincoln Books
Authors:
Harold Holzer; Frank Williams
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