BOOK TV Schedule July 16-18

BOOK TV Schedule July 16-18



all times are eastern

Saturday, July 16

8:00 am Jeff Golden, As If We Were Grownups: A Collection of 'Suicidal' Political Speeches That Aren't

9:30 Sarah Erdman, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village

10:30 2005 Annapolis Book Festival: David Shipler "The Working Poor"

11:45 John Ehrman, The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan

1:00 pm David Enders, Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation

1:45 Joel Garreau, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

3:00 Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution

4:00 Larry Diamond, Thomas Donnelly, Will Marshall, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

5:30 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Ray Bradbury

6:15 Linda Fasulo, An Insider's Guide to the UN

7:00 Encore Booknotes: Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life

8:00 General Assignment: Princeton Literature of Fact Class Book Project

9:00 David Plotz, The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

10:00 John Dicker, The United States of Wal-Mart

11:00 2005 Virginia Festival of the Book: Faye Satterly on the Nursing Shortage


Sunday, July 17

12:00 am After Words: After Words: Bob Woodward interviewed by James Mann

1:00 Katherine Eban, Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply

2:00 Larry Diamond, Thomas Donnelly, Will Marshall, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

3:30 2005 Annapolis Book Festival: Stephen Frantzich "Cyberage Politics 101"

4:15 2005 Printers Row Book Fair: Michael Lind, 2005 Printers Row Book Fair: Michael Lind

5:00 2005 Virginia Festival of the Book: Corruption and Scandal Panel

6:05 Kinky Friedman, Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad

6:30 Dr. Michael Good, The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi who Saved Jews

8:00 Janis Kearney, 2005 Arkansas Lit. Fest: Janis Kearney "Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir"

9:00 Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution

10:00 Stephen Mansfield, The Faith of the American Soldier

11:00 Public Lives: Hal Elliott Wert, Hoover The Fishing President: Portrait of the Private Man and His Life Outdoors

12:00 pm Jeff Golden, As If We Were Grownups: A Collection of 'Suicidal' Political Speeches That Aren't

1:30 2005 Virginia Festival of the Book: Bookish Obsessions Panel

2:45 2005 BEA: Bruce Feiler "Where God Was Born"

3:15 Thomas DiLorenzo, How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present

4:15 PEN American Center/New Yorker Readings on Writing & Politics

6:00 After Words: After Words: Victor Navasky interviewed by David Frum

7:00 Public Lives: Hal Elliott Wert, Hoover The Fishing President: Portrait of the Private Man and His Life Outdoors

8:00 Stephen Mansfield, The Faith of the American Soldier

8:55 After Words: After Words: Victor Navasky interviewed by David Frum

10:00 History on Book TV: Allen Guelzo, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

11:00 General Assignment: Princeton Literature of Fact Class Book Project


Monday, July 18

12:00 am Joel Garreau, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

1:15 Col. Garland Williams, Engineering Peace: The Military Role in Postconflict Reconstruction

3:00 Matt Taibbi, Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season

4:00 Jennifer Washburn, University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

5:00 Stanley Weintraub, Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783

6:00 Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary

7:00 John Dicker, The United States of Wal-Mart



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

On Saturday, July 16 at 8:00 am and Sunday, July 17 at 12:00 pm
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As If We Were Grownups: A Collection of 'Suicidal' Political Speeches That Aren't
Jeff Golden

Jeff Golden urges politicians to start dealing with the American public as if they were adults. In his latest book, "As if We Were Grownups," the author writes a number of speeches that he wishes politicians would deliver. Mr. Golden asserts that the American public can handle facts and candidates should stop filling their political speeches with idealism and fiction. This event was hosted by the Ashland Public Library in Oregon.

Jeff Golden is the founding president of the Oregon Guides Association and a former Jackson County, Oregon Commissioner. He is the host of a public radio talk show, The Jefferson Exchange, and the author of "Forest Blood," a novel of the Northwest timber wars.

Publisher: RiverWood Books P.O. Box 3400 Ashland, OR 97520

He said, if Kerry had said "We should never have invaded Iraq, because it was WRONG!" he would prpbably have really won the election. He didn't because his advisors told him that he couldn't say that after 9/11. People are scared and all they want is to be protected by the biggest guns and bombs. The people sensed that Kerry wasn't being totally honest about his feelings. Jeff believes the election was won when Shrub said "You may not agree with me all the time, but you know where I stand."

I teresting point, and could be true.

and the audience all seemed to feel that political discussion is all about security and nothing about real day issues such as healthcare and jobs. They felt that neither political party speaks to the people and their concerns.

We know they are out there, but how do we get them to vote?

From 2005 OR Benchmark Report http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/OPB/2005report/obm31.shtml

Nearly three voting age Oregonians in four cast ballots in 2005. Except for the 1960 general election, this is an historical high for Oregon. Oregon is consistently higher than both the U.S. and Washington in voter turnout.

****This is for one simple reason, imho - the ballot comes in the mail, you fill it out at your leisure, and mail it back. No effort. Gets the slackers like me. Seriously, since moving to OR, I have voted in every election, just because it's so easy.


:hi: Thanks for stopping by, Guys! ;)

On Saturday, July 16 at 9:30 am
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
Sarah Erdman

From the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum in Atlanta, Georgia Sarah Erdman talks about her book "Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village." In 1998, the author went to the northern part of the Ivory Coast as a community development volunteer. Ms. Erdman, who now works for the Peace Corps, discusses her work in maternity wards in Nambonkaha as well as educating the village's citizens on birth control and AIDS prevention. After the discussion, the author answers questions from the audience.

Sarah Erdman works for the Peace Corps. She spent two years in Africa starting in 1998.

Publisher: Picador 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010

had me crying.
:(

David Shipler "The Working Poor" Invisible in America

The Working Poor examines the "forgotten America" where "millions live in the shadow of prosperity, in the twilight between poverty and well-being." These are citizens for whom the American Dream is out of reach despite their willingness to work hard. Struggling to simply survive, they live so close to the edge of poverty that a minor obstacle, such as a car breakdown or a temporary illness, can lead to a downward financial spiral that can prove impossible to reverse. David Shipler interviewed many such working people for this book and his profiles offer an intimate look at what it is like to be trapped in a cycle of dead-end jobs without benefits or opportunities for advancement. He shows how some negotiate a broken welfare system that is designed to help yet often does not, while others proudly refuse any sort of government assistance, even to their detriment. Still others have no idea that help is available at all.
"As a culture, the United States is not quite sure about the causes of poverty, and is therefore uncertain about the solutions," he writes. Though he details many ways in which current assistance programs could be more effective and rational, he does not believe that government alone, nor any other single variable, can solve the problem. Instead, a combination of things are required, beginning with the political will needed to create a relief system "that recognizes both the society's obligation through government and business, and the individual's obligation through labor and family." He does propose some specific steps in the right direction such as altering the current wage structure, creating more vocational programs (in both the public and private sectors), developing a fairer way to distribute school funding, and implementing basic national health care.

Prepare to have any preconceived notions about those living in poverty in America challenged by this affecting book. --Shawn Carkonen

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375408908/ref=pd_sxp_f/002-6814585-0184832

This Shipler discussion is one I wouldn't want to miss.

Thanks for the bookspan threads Viva.

Saw it a few months ago.... will post notes...brb

2005 Annapolis Book Festival: David Shipler "The Working Poor"

(from http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9... )

"Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, ‘working poor,’ should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.” —from the Introduction

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.

As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology—hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor—white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy.

We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation’s capital—each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crisis. And unlike most works on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well—their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers.

This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.

*****notes****

If one doesn’t feel that anyone cares, they don’t even “try”.

“Class “ is very difficult for all of us to discuss.

I realized while watching this that my “Political awareness” is made possible by the fact that I am no longer one of the ‘working poor’ (technically). I still have problems, medical bills, taxes, … poor financial habits from not having any experience with a lot of money. But now that it is not a daily intense struggle and worry, I have more ‘free brain time” to surf the net for the news I never would have heard before.

Learning is discretionary. It only happens when one is fed, clothed and housed.

While there are so many obstacles blocking the way out of poverty, this was not one which occurred to me previously.

A very worthwhile lecture.

On Saturday, July 16 at 1:00 pm
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Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation
David Enders

David Enders is a 24 year-old independent journalist who moved to Baghdad during the war in Iraq to open the only English language newspaper written, printed, and distributed there during the war. He writes about his time spent working with the newspaper in "Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation." The book chronicles his experiences as a journalist with press credentials covering the war from outside the territory of the coalition-controlled Green Zone, and gives a first-hand account of life for Iraqi civilians during the war. Mr. Enders tells stories of hiring a local Iraqi to act as a house manager for his staff, having guns held to his head, and of daily civilian interaction with coalition forces.

David Enders was the editor of the Michigan Daily, the campus newspaper at the University of Michigan. He has reported for the BBC and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and the Nation.

Publisher: University of Michigan Press 839 Greene Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104

He has written for so many good papers, and is a great speaker.
He is planning on living most of the next year in the Middle East, freelancing.

Said "the amount of skirmishes and gunfire in most of the city was incredible" Media access severely restricted. He's pretty sure they were the only ones to make it from one side of the city to the other that day. Stopped over 40 times, shot at a few times.

6-1-05 Official # of reported "action" per day is 60. Most people there believe it is quite a bit higher.

Q - did looking so young help?

A - yes, overall. The Iraqis especially. Once heard someone say "We can't kill them, they are too young". No one in our gov. took them seriously.

On Saturday, July 16 at 1:45 pm and Monday, July 18 at 12:00 am
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Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
Joel Garreau

Joel Garreau looks closely at scientific efforts to enhance human capability through technology and our increasing understanding of the genome. Mr. Garreau writes that the increasing rate at which scientists are identifying genome components could result in longer lifespans for humans, less disease, and stronger bodies, among other breakthroughs. Using data culled from scientific research, the author creates three different scenarios of the world's future. The event was held at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.

Joel Garreau is the author of "Edge City: Life on the New Frontier" and "The Nine Nations of North America." He has been a senior fellow at George Mason University as well as the University of California - Berkeley. He is currently a reporter and editor at the Washington Post.

Publisher: Doubleday 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019

On Saturday, July 16 at 3:00 pm and Sunday, July 17 at 9:00 am
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
Susan Glasser

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser were both Moscow bureau chiefs for the Washington Post for four years, during which time, they argue, Vladmir Putin tried to turn Russia back into an authoritarian state. In their new book "Kremlin Rising," the authors write that Putin has repeatedly attempted to consolidate power and suppress his opposition. During this event, hosted by the World Affairs Council, co-author Susan Glasser talked about these and other matters. Includes Q&A.

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, husband and wife, worked as the Moscow bureau chiefs for the Washington Post from January 2001 to November 2004.

Publisher: Scribner 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020

On Saturday, July 16 at 4:00 pm and Sunday, July 17 at 2:00 am
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
Larry Diamond, Thomas Donnelly, Will Marshall

Larry Diamond discusses what he believes went wrong in the U.S. occupation of Iraq in his new book, "Squandered Victory." In 2003, the author was asked by then-National Secutiry Advisor Condoleezza Rice to serve in Baghdad as a senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority. Mr. Diamond argues that the chaos and rising Iraqi doubt about U.S. motives is due to a series of mistakes and missed opportunities during the occupation. Commentary is provided by Thomas Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute. Both panelists answer questions from the audience following the discussion. This event was hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, DC.

Larry Diamond is a professor of political science and sociology at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Democracy.

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010

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On Saturday, July 16 at 5:30 pm
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2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Ray Bradbury

Author Ray Bradbury emphasizes the importance of falling in love at the 2005 Los Angeles Festival of Books. He is joined by Sam Weller, the author of "The Bradbury Chronicles : The Life of Ray Bradbury," for a discussion on his extensive body of work as well as lessons he's learned along the way. The panel is moderated by Steve Wasserman, who stepped down from his post as editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review in May.

Ray Bradbury is the author of more than fifty books, including "From the Dust Returned," "The Martian Chronicles," and "Fahrenheit 451." He is the recipient of the O. Henry Memorial Award, the PEN Center West Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Grand Master Nebula Award from The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Publisher: L.A. Times Festival of Books 202 W. 1st Street Los Angeles, CA 90012

On Saturday, July 16 at 6:15 pm
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An Insider's Guide to the UN
Linda Fasulo

Linda Fasulo talks about the current state of the United Nations, some of the problems facing the institution (including the recent oil-for-food scandal), and the structural changes being proposed by the U.S. and other member governments. She also talks about President Bush's nomination of John Bolton to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and the reaction the nomination has had inside the UN. This talk was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Linda Fasulo is a UN correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. She is also reports regularly for MSNBC online, and U.S. News & World Report, and NPR. Ms. Fasulo is the author of "Representing America: Experiences of the U.S. Diplomats at the UN."

Publisher: Yale University Press P.O. Box 209040 New Haven, CT 06520

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On Saturday, July 16 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, July 17 at 11:00 pm
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Princeton Literature of Fact Class Book Project

"The Literature of Fact" is a writing class at Princeton University that was created by Pulitzer Prize winning writer John McPhee in 1975 . As a final project for the spring 2005 term the students produced a book of 16 non-fiction essays. The book, titled "STRUC" contains works such as "The Evangelicals", a look at Christian groups on campus, and "To Drink or not to Drink", an examination of alcohol use in student life and some who choose not to drink. In this program we learn about the production of the class book and hear twelve of the students read portions of their work. The visiting professor for the class was author and Washington Post staff writer David Maraniss.

Limited numbers of the book STRUC are available through the humanities office at Princeton at a cost of $10. To order or for more information, e-mail Michelle French at mfrench@princeton.edu.

On Saturday, July 16 at 9:00 pm
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The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
David Plotz

The Noble Prize Sperm Bank was created with the expectation of breeding scientists and leaders. David Plotz, an editor at Slate magazine, gives a brief overview of the sperm bank in his new book, "The Genius Factory." Mr. Plotz details his investigation into what happened to the children born as a result of the Repository for Germinal Choice, nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank . This event was hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.

David Plotz is deputy editor of Slate, the online magazine.

Publisher: Random House 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019

On Saturday, July 16 at 10:00 pm and Monday, July 18 at 7:00 am
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The United States of Wal-Mart
John Dicker

Wal-Mart employs 1 out of every 115 workers in the United States and has annual sales of approximately $260 billion. Author John Dicker writes in his new book, "The United States of Wal-Mart," that it's also responsible for the loss of many local small business jobs, each time a new Wal-Mart opens in a community. Mr. Dicker makes the case that the Wal-Mart globalization effort, with new stores now in China and the Far East, is promoting homogeneity and eliminating small businesses.

John Dicker is an investigative journalist who has written articles for Salon, the Nation, and the Colorado Springs Independent among others.

Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 11014

Sunday - 3:30 PM
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2005 Annapolis Book Festival: Stephen Frantzich "Cyberage Politics 101"


Mr. Frantzich talks about his books Citizen Democracy: Political Activists in a Cynical Age, published by Rowmand and Littlefield; The C-SPAN Revolution, published by University of Oklahoma Press; and Cyberage Politics 101: Mobility, Technology and Democracy, published by Peter Lang Publishing. He talked about levels of civic participation in the U.S., the prevalence of cynicism among the electorate, and the role of the media and families in fostering public debate on public policy. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience.
Mr. Franzitch is a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy.

On Sunday, July 17 at 4:15 am
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2005 Printers Row Book Fair: Michael Lind

From the 21st annual Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago, a discussion on Abraham Lincoln and his political, religious, and racial philosophies. Michael Lind, author of "What Lincoln Believed," is interviewed by Jim Warren, Deputy Managing Editor at the Chicago Tribune.

Michael Lind is the author of "The Next American Nation," "Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics," and "Hamilton’s Republic: Readings in American Democratic Nationalism." A former editor or writer for Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker and the New Republic, Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.

:toast:

:hi:

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On Sunday, July 17 at 5:00 am
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2005 Virginia Festival of the Book: Corruption and Scandal Panel

From the 11th annual Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia, a discussion on corruption and scandal in politics, business and in the media. Panelists are Kenneth Ackerman, author of "Boss Tweed: The Life and Legacy of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York"; Seth Mnookin, author of "Hard News: The Scandals at the New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media"; and Milton Regan, author of "Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer." The panel is moderated by Burt Zisk.

Kenneth Ackerman is also the author of "Dark Horse" and "The Gold Ring." Seth Mnookin is a former senior writer at Newsweek. Michael Regan is a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Public Lives
A look at biography books.

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On Sunday, July 17 at 8:00 am
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2005 Arkansas Lit. Fest: Janis Kearney "Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir"
Janis Kearney
Video Link - http://www.booktv.org/ram/publiclives/0505/btv052805_2.ram

Janis Kearney talks about her early days growing up in the Arkansas delta and her eventual move to Washington, DC to work in the White House. Ms. Kearney was former President Clinton's personal diarist from 1995 to 2001. She began working for Bill Clinton during the Clinton Gore presidential campaign of 1992.

Janis Kearney has been publisher of the Arkansas State Press newspaper, a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute, and a writer and oral historian. Ms. Kearney is now a visiting fellow at DePaul University where she is working on an oral biography of former President Clinton.

Publisher: Writing Our World Press 1507 East 53rd Street, Suite 278 Chicago, IL 60615

On Sunday, July 17 at 10:00 am and at 8:00 pm
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The Faith of the American Soldier
Stephen Mansfield

Stephen Mansfield, author of "The Faith of the American Soldier," discusses the role that religion plays in the lives of American soldiers in Iraq. During the talk, Mr. Manfield addresses specifically the role played by military chaplains and discusses how the nature of the war is bringing religion to the forefront for many American soldiers. This event was hosted by Davis-Kidd Bookstore in Memphis, Tennessee.

Stephen Mansfield is the author of "The Faith of George W. Bush," "Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill," and "The Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington."

Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014

He's equating spirituality with militarism -- just in case any of us are getting it wrong. :eyes:

Bushs and Reagan (there is a new rightwing book out, claiming amazing coincidences between their philosophies) Am I uneducated about Churchill? Wouldn't surprise me.

Missed the show, but it sounds like I didn't miss much! :) thanks!

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On Sunday, July 17 at 1:30 pm
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2005 Virginia Festival of the Book: Bookish Obsessions Panel

From the 11th annual Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia, a discussion about people passionate about books. Panelists are Sara Nelson, author of "So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading" and A.J. Jacobs, author of "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World." Book promotions consultant Bella Stander moderates.

Sara Nelson is editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly. She was previously a columnist for the New York Post and the New York Observer. A.J. Jacobs is an NPR contributor and senior editor at Esquire. He is also the author of "The Two Kings: Jesus and Elvis," "America Off-Line," and "Fractured Fairytales."

Publisher: Nelson Publisher: Penguin Group 375 Hudson St NEW YORK, NY 10014 Jacobs Publisher: Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue Of The Americas New York, NY 10020

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On Sunday, July 17 at 2:45 pm
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2005 BEA: Bruce Feiler "Where God Was Born"

From BookExpo America in New York City, an interview with Bruce Feiler, author of "Where God Was Born."

from Harper - http://www.harperacademic.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060574879

At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East -- Israel, Iraq, and Iran -- and examines the question: Is religion tearing us apart ... or can it bring us together?

Where God Was Born combines the adventure of a wartime chronicle, the excitement of an archaeological detective story, and the insight of personal spiritual exploration. Taking readers to biblical sites not seen by Westerners for decades, Feiler's journey uncovers little-known details about the common roots of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and affirms the importance of the Bible in today's world.

In his intimate, accessible style, Feiler invites readers on a never-in-a-lifetime experience:

Israel Feiler takes a perilous helicopter dive over Jerusalem, treks through secret underground tunnels, and locates the spot where David toppled Goliath.

Iraq After being airlifted into Baghdad, Feiler visits the Garden of Eden and the birthplace of Abraham, and makes a life-threatening trip to the rivers of Babylon.

Iran Feiler explores the home of the Bible's first messiah and uncovers the secret burial place of Queen Esther.
In Where God Was Born, Feiler discovers that at the birth of Western religion, all faiths drew from one another and were open to coexistence. Feiler's bold realization is that the Bible argues for interfaith harmony. It cannot be ceded to one side in the debate over values. Feiler urges moderates to take back the Bible and use its powerful voice as a beacon of shared ideals.

In his most ambitious work to date, Bruce Feiler has written a brave, uplifting story that stirs the deepest chords of our time. Where God Was Born offers a rare, universal vision of God that can inspire different faiths to an allegiance of hope.

On Sunday, July 17 at 3:15 pm
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How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present
Thomas DiLorenzo

From the Freedom Fest convention in Las Vegas, author Thomas DiLorenzo talks about his new book, "How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present." In it, the author chronicles how he believes capitalism has affected the formation of our country over the past four hundred years. He also writes that historians are often quick to blame capitalists for many of the economic setbacks faced by the United States (Great Depression, energy deregulation, etc..), but he believes there are other causes for the problems.

Thomas DiLorenzo has authored or co-authored twelve books, including "The Real Lincoln." He regularly contributes articles to USA Today, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal among others. He is currently a professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland.

Publisher: Crown Forum 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019

Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_DiLorenzo

ECONOMIC FASCISM
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
When most people hear the word ``fas- cism,'' they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as ``corporatism,'' that was an essential ingredient of economic totalitarianism as practiced by Mussolini and Hitler. So-called corporatism was adopted in Italy and Germany during the l930s and was held up as a ``model'' by quite a few intellectuals and policy makers in the United States and Europe. A version of economic fascism was in fact adopted in the United States in the 1930s and survives to this day. In the United States these policies were not called ``fascism'' but ``planned capitalism.'' The word fascism may no longer be politically acceptable, but its synonym, ``industrial policy,'' is as popular as ever.


The Free World Flirts With Fascism
Few Americans are aware of or can recall how so many Americans and Europeans viewed economic fascism as the wave of the future during the 193Os. The American Am- bassador to Italy, Richard Washburn Child, was so impressed with ``corporatism'' that he wrote in the preface to Mussolini's 1928 autobiography that ``it may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to Mussolini. The Duce is now the greatest figure of this sphere and time.''1 Winston Churchill wrote in 1927 that ``If I had been an Italian I am sure I would have been entirely with you'' and ``don the Fascist black shirt.''2 As late as 1940, Churchill was still describing Mussolini as ``a great man.''

more - http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/fascism.htm

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On Sunday, July 17 at 4:15 pm
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PEN American Center/New Yorker Readings on Writing & Politics

International authors Ha Jin, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen, Wole Soyinka, Nuruddin Farah, Shan Sa, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and Antonio Munoz Molina read selections from works that convey the political influence of the written word. This event was part of the New York Festival of International Literature sponsored by the PEN American Center and the New Yorker magazine.

For more about the New York Festival of International Literature and for brief author biographies, visit www.pen.org.

Publisher: New Yorker 4 Times Square New York, N.Y. 10036

After Words

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On Sunday, July 17 at 6:00 pm and at 8:55 pm
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After Words: Victor Navasky interviewed by David Frum

This week on After Words Victor Navasky, publisher of the Nation, discusses his new memoir -- "A Matter of Opinion" -- and reflects on his career in journalism. He is interviewed by David Frum, a former Special Assistant to President Bush for Economic Speechwriting. Mr. Frum is currently a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and columnist for National Review Online.

Victor Navasky is the publisher of The Nation and Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of "Kennedy Justice" and "Naming Names," (1982 National Book Awards winner). David Frum is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. From January 1991 to February 1992 he was a Special Assistant to President Bush for Economic Speechwriting. He writes a daily column for National Review Online, and his books include "The Right Man," "An End To Evil," "Dead Right" and "How We Got Here."

Victor Navasky
Publisher and Editorial Director of The Nation

Victor Navasky, editor of The Nation since 1978, became its publisher and editorial director in January 1995. In 1994, while on a year's leave of absence, he served first as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and then as a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University.

Before coming to The Nation he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for the Times Book Review. He is the author of Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, 1977) and Naming Names (Viking, 1980), which won an American Book Award Kennedy Justice, the American Book Award winner Naming Names and, most recently, A Matter of Opinion. and is co-author with Christopher Cerf of The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation, now in its second edition.

Navasky has also served as a Guggenheim Fellow, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities and has contributed articles and reviews to numerous magazines and journals of opinion. He is a graduate of Yale Law School (1959) and Swarthmore College (1954), where he was Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in the social sciences.



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COMMISSAR FRUM
Former Presidential speechwriter smears antiwar conservatives
by Justin Raimondo


This day has been too too depressing. Not only is the nation plunged into a horrific and unnecessary war – a war that will kill many thousands of innocents, bankrupt the country, and create a bloody chaos in the Middle East – but, to top it off, David Frum, the ex-White House speechwriter and author of the "axis of evil" phrase, has just informed me that he's turning his back on me. Am I to be spared nothing?

Say – what? Let me explain….

In another life, Frum might have been a Soviet-era commissar, grimly ticking off the ideological deviations of his victims, and stonily informing them that they would soon be taking a one-way trip to Siberia. In his present incarnation, however, after being fired from his White House position, the author of Dead Right, a polemical narrative about the evolution of the conservative movement, and other books, has settled into his role as chief political commissar of the "mainstream" conservative movement.

A more energetic enforcer of neoconservative orthodoxy could hardly be wished for: If Bill Kristol is the little Lenin of the neocons, and Norman Podhoretz their Stalin, then Frum is their Felix Dzerzhinsky, the much-feared founder of the Soviet secret police. In Dead Right, Frum smears Russell Kirk, the intellectual founding father of the modern conservative movement, as a purveyor of anti-Semitic "cracks" and similarly slanders Henry Regnery, the pioneer conservative publisher.

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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Allen Guelzo

Allen Guelzo talks about his book, "Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation," at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Mr. Guelzo refutes eight myths surrounding President Lincoln and the freeing of the slaves. He argues that several parts of the original document have been misunderstood and taken out of context. The author answers questions from the audience following the discussion.

Allen Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College. He is the author of five books including the 2000 Lincoln Prize winner, "Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President."

Publisher: Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020

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Engineering Peace: The Military Role in Postconflict Reconstruction
Col. Garland Williams

Col. Garland Williams discusses reconstruction efforts in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan drawing from his own experience as military assistant to the assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for civil works. In his new book, "Engineering Peace," Col. Williams examines the challenges countries face when trying to restore social institutions after conflicts end. The author is joined by Dana Eyre, Senior Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and two members of the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, Paul Hughes and Daniel Serwer.

Col. Garland H. Williams was the military assistant to the assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for civil works. He also commanded the 16th Armored Engineer Battalion in Germany from 1999-2001 and served in Sarajevo as part of NATO's Implementation Force staff from 1996-1999.

Publisher: United States Institute of Peace 1200 17th Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20036

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Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season
Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi gives a first-hand account of the 2004 Presidential campaign trail in his new book, "Spanking the Donkey." While working as a reporter, Mr. Taibbi had a seat on John Kerry's campaign plane, attended Howard Dean press conferences, and worked undercover at a Republican campaign office in Orlando, Florida. The author sits down with Will Dana, managing editor of Rolling Stone, to discuss his writing style and the problems he faced finding new story ideas and getting along with the other reporters. This event was hosted by Housing Works Used Book Café in New York City.

Matt Taibbi is a columnist for the New York Press and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. Mr. Taibbi worked as a jounalist in Russia and edited the satirical magazine The eXile for ten years.

Publisher: NEW PRESS 38 Greene Street, 4th floor New York, NY 10013

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University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
Jennifer Washburn

Author Jennifer Washburn contends that there is a relationship between corporate America and the higher education system which has affected the way many colleges and universities are run. In her new book, "University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education," the author writes that because of their dependence on corporate funding, universities have shifted their focus from liberal arts and the humanities to medicine and research labs.

Jennifer Washburn has written articles for the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, and the Nation among others. She is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation.

Publisher: Basic Books 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016

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Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783
Stanley Weintraub

Stanley Weintraub examines the Revolutionary War from a British perspective in his new book, "Iron Tears." The author questions whether America in fact won the battle for its freedom or if Britain's internal division over the war played a more crucial role. This event was hosted by the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Stanley Weintraub is the author of "General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783," "Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce," and "A Stillness Heard Round the World; The End of the Great War." He is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Penn State University.

Publisher: The Free Press 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY

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Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
Joseph Wheelan

Joseph Wheelan writes in his new book, "Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary," that Aaron Burr was a naturally gifted orator and politician who made Thomas Jefferson feel threatened. The author contends that this was the reason that Mr. Jefferson was intent on destroying the political career of Aaron Burr. When Mr. Burr's potential involvement in a land-holdings plot was revealed, Thomas Jefferson saw this as an opportunity to expose Aaron Burr in the Supreme Court treason trial presided over by Chief Justice John Marshall.

Joseph Wheelan worked as an editor and reporter for the Associated Press and the Casper Star-Tribune for twenty-six years and the author of "Jefferson's War."

Publisher: Caroll & Graf 245 West 17th Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10011

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