Book TV Schedule: February 10th -12th

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: February 10-12
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After Words
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Insightful author interviews

Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and the author of This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground. He discusses his latest book, Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, with Doug Bandow, former senior fellow at the Cato Institute and current vice president of policy at Citizen Outreach, a limited-government public policy organization. Mr. Bandow's latest book is Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire.


Weekend Highlights
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Richard Sonnenfeldt, Witness to Nuremberg: The Chief American Interpreter at the War Crimes Trials
At age 22, German-native Richard Sonnenfeldt became chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials. In his new memoir, Witness to Nuremberg, he recounts his experiences questioning top Nazi officials, including Third Reich second-in-command Hermann Goring and Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoess.
(Saturday 7 PM ET)

Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger, Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq
Co-editors Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger discuss their collection of children's war diaries at the United Nations Bookshop in New York City. Ms. Filipovic's own wartime memoir, Zlata's Diary, was published in 1994. During the event she compares her experiences in Sarajevo to those of the 14 authors featured in Stolen Voices.
(Saturday 8 PM, Sunday 1:15 PM ET)

Elizabeth de la Vega, United States v. George W. Bush et al.
In her book, Elizabeth de la Vega presents a fictional indictment of President Bush and members of his cabinet for the way they sold the invasion of Iraq to the American public. She discusses the book at an event hosted by Common Good Books in St. Paul, Minnesota. Garrison Keillor, who owns Common Good Books, makes opening remarks.
(Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 4:30 PM ET)

Zev Chafets, A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance
Zev Chafets argues that American Jews should embrace Christian Evangelicals in his new book, A Match Made in Heaven. Chafets, a former columnist for the New York Daily News and a founding editor of the Jerusalem Report magazine, claims that American Jews are influenced by the secular Democratic establishment and therefore misinterpret Evangelical intentions.
(Sunday 9 AM, Monday 2 AM ET)

Paul Barrett, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
In his book, Paul Barrett writes about immigrant and native-born Muslims as well as converts to Islam. He also details the struggle to be both faithful to their religion and patriotic citizens of the U.S. since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
(Sunday 12:30 and 10 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, February 10

8:00 am Elliott Lewis, Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

9:00 In Depth: In Depth: Dinesh D'Souza

12:00 pm 2005 Lincoln Forum James Swanson "Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer"

12:55 2006 NPC: Joshua Wolf Shenk "Lincoln's Melancholy"

1:00 2005 Lincoln Forum Michael Kauffman "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies"

2:00 2005 Lincoln Forum Edward Steers, Jr., Editor, "The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators"

2:50 Lincoln Assassination Vignette

3:00 Amine Bouchentouf, Arabic for Dummies

3:10 BTV Bus: Jonathan Kozol, "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America"

3:30 General Assignment: Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India

4:30 John Taylor with Alastair McKechnie and Faryar Shirzad, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World

5:55 2006 NPC: Maurine Beasley "First Ladies and the Press"

6:00 Encore Booknotes: William Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American

7:00 History on Book TV: Richard Sonnenfeldt, Witness to Nuremberg: The Chief American Interpreter at the War Crimes Trials

8:00 Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger, Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq

8:45 2006 Miami Book Fair: Myra MacPherson "All Governments Lie!"

9:00 After Words: After Words: Brian Doherty, author of "Radicals for Capitalism" interviewed by Doug Bandow

10:00 Elizabeth de la Vega with Garrison Keillor, United States v. George W. Bush et al.

11:15 2006 Texas Book Festival: Thomas Cahill "Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe"

11:30 Dore Gold, The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City



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Sunday, February 11

12:30 am Peter Kramer, Sigmund Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind

1:30 Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold

2:45 2006 Miami Book Fair: Katheryn Russell-Brown "Protecting Our Own"

3:00 2005 Lincoln Forum James Swanson "Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer"

3:55 2006 NPC: Joshua Wolf Shenk "Lincoln's Melancholy"

4:00 2005 Lincoln Forum Michael Kauffman "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies"

5:00 2005 Lincoln Forum Edward Steers, Jr., Editor, "The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators"

5:50 Lincoln Assassination Vignette

6:00 Dore Gold, The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City

7:00 Peter Kramer, Sigmund Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind

8:00 Chris Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

8:55 2006 NPC: Ray Suarez "Holy Vote"

9:00 Zev Chafets, A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance

9:45 General Assignment: Debate on Religion and Reason with Sam Harris, "Letter to a Christian Nation," and Reza Aslan, "No god but God"

11:30 History on Book TV: Richard Sonnenfeldt, Witness to Nuremberg: The Chief American Interpreter at the War Crimes Trials

12:30 pm Paul Barrett, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion

1:15 Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger, Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq

2:00 Barry Lando, Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

3:00 Ronald Olive, Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice

4:30 Elizabeth de la Vega with Garrison Keillor, United States v. George W. Bush et al.

6:00 After Words: After Words: Brian Doherty, author of "Radicals for Capitalism" interviewed by Doug Bandow

7:00 General Assignment: Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest: A Novel

8:10 2006 Miami Book Fair: Thomas Evans "The Education of Ronald Reagan"

8:25 2006 NPC: Maurine Beasley "First Ladies and the Press"

8:30 BTV Bus: Ken Hechler "Working With Truman"

8:40 2006 AUSA - Kevin Hymel "Patton's Photographs: War as He Saw It"

9:00 After Words: After Words: Brian Doherty, author of "Radicals for Capitalism" interviewed by Doug Bandow

10:00 Paul Barrett, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion

10:45 John Taylor with Alastair McKechnie and Faryar Shirzad, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World



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Monday, February 12

12:10 am 2006 Miami Book Fair: Philip Gourevitch on The Paris Review

12:30 Gene Epstein, Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers

1:55 2006 NPC: Judge Janice Law "Yield"

2:00 Zev Chafets, A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance

2:45 Herman Badillo, One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups

3:45 Elliott Lewis, Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

4:45 Public Lives: T.J. Parsell, Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

5:55 Taner Akcam, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

7:00 Elizabeth Kantor, The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature


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




Kramskoy

On Saturday, February 10 at 8:00 am and Monday, February 12 at 3:45 am
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Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America
Elliott Lewis

Journalist Elliott Lewis discusses his life as a biracial American at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. In his memior "Fade," the author explains that while he was raised with two parents of mixed racial heritage who identified themselves as black, he eventually evolved into a biracial self-identity. The book also examines transracial adoption, interracial dating and immigration through the eyes of several multiracial people.

Elliott Lewis is a freelance television news reporter in Washington, DC. He has worked for CNN Headline News, BET, Associated Press Television, WJLA-TV, and the Washington bureaus of Tribune Broadcasting and Hearst-Argyle Television. Mr. Lewis is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and currently serves on their Board of Directors.

On Saturday, February 10 at 9:00 am
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In Depth: Dinesh D'Souza
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0207/arc_btv020407_4.ram

Dinesh D'Souza joins Book TV for a live In Depth interview on Sunday, February 4. Mr. D'Souza's new book is "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. " His previous books include "Letters to a Young Conservative," "What's So Great About America," "The Virtue of Prosperity," "Ronald Reagan," "The End of Racism," and "Illiberal Education." Dinesh D'Souza is the Rishwain Research Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was previously the John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. From 1987 to 1988 he was a senior policy analyst at the Reagan White House. From 1985 to 1987 he was managing editor of Policy Review. Call Mr. D'Souza with your questions during the program or e-mail your question to booktv@c-span.org.

I don't believe this will be a live call-in, isn't this a rerun?

Vivala, what say you?

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On Saturday, February 10 at 12:00 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 3:00 am
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2005 Lincoln Forum James Swanson "Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer"

James Swanson talks about his best-selling book "Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer" at the 10th Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Swanson details the assassination, the pursuit and eventual killing of President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth. This talk was recorded in November of 2005, several months before the book was published.

James L. Swanson is a senior fellow in constitutional studies, former editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review and serves on the Advisory Committee of the National Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He served as assistant to Chairman Susan Liebeler at the U.S. International Trade Commission, clerked for Douglas H. Ginsburg, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and was a special assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. Mr. Swanson is the founding and current editor of the First Amendment Law Handbook and the co-author of "Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution."

These Lincoln Forums every year are always really interesting, and C-SPAN always carries them. This group was a part of the 2005 one, which I remember from the time and also taped and watched again now. All these three speakers were great, and I think there was also a book called "Don't Shoot That Boy!" from the 2005 Forum, (or another year), about Lincoln-haters, would-be murderers, Booth sympathizers, etc., that was shocking and really interesting.

This book here, by James Swanson, was about the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination, from the dying President being moved to Peterson's Boarding House across the street, so Lincoln would not have to suffer the disgrace of dying in a sinful acting theater, a common opinion then, to Booth's attempted escape, to the capture, trial and execution. It is all told with so much researched detail, that it becomes haunting, as if you are really there, at each place. The speech today focused on an odd little detail of the whole story, that of souvenir or relic collecting, from each site of the tragedy. From the very beginning, people started taking items as keepsakes, and it started with the murder scene itself. The star of the play at the Ford's Theater that night, Laura Keene, went up to the President's box, and asked to cradle Lincoln's head in her lap. The dress she was wearing got blood and even brain matter on it, and became an attraction to such a degree that Keene later gave it to another family member and did not want to see it again. Several people, from guards to doctors, and of course Mary Lincoln, asked for and got locks of Lincoln's hair, and also gave one lock to a friend. A few witnesses to Booth's murder got locks of Booth's hair, Booth being a famous actor, apart from the murderer.

The Peterson House, where Lincoln died, had somebody living in that room at the time, and that person reported visitors at all hours, taking things from the room because they thought it was connected to the death scene. The soldiers who transported Lincoln's body to the funeral parlor, and removed the clothes, stole them, as did another soldier who was placing the shot Booth under arrest, riffling Booth's pockets. Many of the cut-up, bloody pieces of clothes or other material were sold, some given away, and many items were faked. There were hundreds of faked Ford's Theater programs from "that night." There was a touching reference to Mary Lincoln at this time, coming out of the boarding house where Lincoln died, to go backto the White House the next morning, looking across the street to the Ford's Theater where Lincoln had been shot, and saying, "That dreadful house....That dreadful house..."

As the news spread, people started trying to get into the boarding house room, to sketch it for newspapers, and great searches began for any photographs that might have been taken, photography being a very new thing then. The author mentioned several photos that were supressed for almost a century, but available now. The Alexander Gardner series of photos of the executions of the conspirators, and the picture of Lincoln in the casket at the funeral, which I remember from Ken Burns's PBS series, not having known there ever was a picture of the deceased Lincoln. There are gruesome Booth autopsy photos, and apparently Lincoln ones, which I don't know the (still) existence of. I remember seeing, about the early '80s maybe, a special issue of Life Magazine, on the Most Important American Historical Events, a picture, then-newly unearthed, of the bedroom where Lincoln died, still bloody, taken that morning after Lincoln had just been removed, and it was haunting.

Everything you could think of became a sought-after collectible to somebody, from the weapons used, to the boat Booth was ferried across the Potomac in, (never found), to the knife used to attack Seward with that same night, later presented to the guard who, with Seward's daughter, saved Seward's life. Tragically, Seward's wife died that same year, 1865, and this daughter, only 21, died the next year, and Seward never recovered from all that.

Ford's Theater itself was immediately ordered closed by Stanton, and when the owners tried reopening it some time later, there was a huge public reaction against it. It was gutted, and furnishings either moved to other Ford theaters, or destroyed. Eventually, it became paperwork storage for a department of Governemt, but because there were so many filing cabinets full of papers on each floor, the whole structure of floors collapsed, killing 30 people. Now, it is a fully-restored museum and historical theater, containing many of Booth's items including the diary.

The following two speakers at this forum, also, were really great, the "American Brutus" one presenting very intriguing evidence that Booth actually tried to implicate and make seem guilty--when they really weren't--several people who were going to report the conspiracy, and who now were under suspicion themselves, and even cast some doubt on the guilt of Dr. Mudd again, as that goes back and forth.

This was really interesting, very detailed stuff, and these Lincoln Forums are always great. Now let's start having some Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Forums, C-SPAN, and not made up only of critics either!

On Saturday, February 10 at 1:00 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 4:00 am
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2005 Lincoln Forum Michael Kauffman "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies"

Michael Kauffman discusses Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth at the 10th Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Kauffman alleges that Booth manipulated his acquaintances, friends, and co-conspirators and blackmailed them by threatening to link them with the assassination plot in the event that they turned him in.

Michael Kauffman has investigated the Lincoln assassination for 30 years. He served as a guide of President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth's escape route and also provided expert testimony at the 1995 Booth exhumation hearings.

On Saturday, February 10 at 2:00 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 5:00 am
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2005 Lincoln Forum Edward Steers, Jr., Editor, "The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators"

Edward Steers, Jr. discusses the trial and investigation of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at the 10th Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Steers, the editor of "The Trial," believes it was a broad confederate conspiracy to kill President Lincoln and details the history of the military tribunal and how the murder trial was conducted.

Edward Steers is the author of "Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln," "His Name Is Still Mudd: The Case Against Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd," and "The Escape and Capture of John Wilkes Booth ."

On Saturday, February 10 at 3:00 pm
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Arabic for Dummies
Amine Bouchentouf

This interview was recorded at the Strand bookstore in New York City. Mr. Bouchentouf argues that private citizens and government employees would increase their understanding of middle east culture by learning the Arabic language, or becoming familiar with the language.

On Saturday, February 10 at 3:10 pm
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BTV Bus: Jonathan Kozol, "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America"

This interview was recorded in Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

On Saturday, February 10 at 3:30 pm
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
Edward Luce

Edward Luce analyzes the social and economic climate in India. The author describes the country's progress as spotty and details the region's attempt to balance the traditions of the past with the current modernization. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.

Edward Luce is the Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times. Between 2001 and 2006 he was the paper’s South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi. Mr. Luce worked in the Clinton administration as the speechwriter to Treasury Secretary Larry Summers from 1999 - 2000.

On Saturday, February 10 at 4:30 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 10:45 pm
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Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World
John Taylor with Alastair McKechnie and Faryar Shirzad

Sworn in as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs just before the events of 9/11, John Taylor was a leader in the government's post 9/11 financial efforts around the world. In his new book "Global Financial Warriors," he describes his efforts to freeze the assets of international terrorists, create a new currency in Iraq, and aid in the financial reconstruction of Afghanistan. He is joined at this American Enterprise Institute event by Alastair McKechnie, World Bank Country Director of Afghanistan, and Faryar Shirzad, George W. Bush's former Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs.

John Taylor was Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs from 2001 to 2005. Prior to that, he served on the President's Council of Economic Advisors and as a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisors. He is currently the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

On Saturday, February 10 at 6:00 pm
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Jefferson Davis, American
William Cooper

Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy on February 10, 1861. William Cooper's biography details the strengths and weaknesses of his leadership. In an interview from 2001, Mr. Cooper points out that Jefferson Davis was in fact proud to serve because he believed the Confederacy's goals were consistent with the America he knew and loved.

William Cooper is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University and the author of "The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890," "The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856" and "Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860."

On Saturday, February 10 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 11:30 am
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Witness to Nuremberg: The Chief American Interpreter at the War Crimes Trials
Richard Sonnenfeldt

At age 22, German-native Richard Sonnenfeldt became chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials. In his new memoir, "Witness to Nuremberg," he recounts his experiences questioning top Nazi officials, including Third Reich second-in-command Hermann Goring and Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoess. At this event at the JCC in Manhattan, Sonnenfeldt details his impressions of the Nazi criminals and reflects on what he calls their "mediocrity." He also discusses the legacy of the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials, and the impact of their memory in modern Germany and around the world.

Richard Sonnenfeldt was born in a German-Jewish home in northeastern Germany in 1923. After fleeing to an English boarding school in 1938, he was deported to Australia as a "German Enemy Alien" and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1941. There, he joined the U.S. Army, and was present at the Dachau concentration camp on the day of its liberation. After the Nuremberg trials, he graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering. He went on to become a principal developer of Color TV, and served as NBC's Executive Vice President from 1979 to 1982.

Pinakothek

On Saturday, February 10 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 1:15 pm
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Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq
Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger

Co-editors Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger discuss their collection of children's war diaries at the United Nations Bookshop in New York City. Ms. Filipovic's own wartime memoir, "Zlata's Diary," was published in 1994. During the event she compares her experiences in Sarajevo to those of the 14 authors featured in "Stolen Voices." Both authors select entries to read from the book.

Zlata Filipovic’s "Zlata's Diary" of wartime Bosnia has been translated into thirty-six languages and she has spoken around the world on her experiences. Melanie Challenger has been the director of The Mostar Foundation helming projects that use music and literature to promote moral awareness in young people.

Morisot

On Saturday, February 10 at 8:45 pm
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2006 Miami Book Fair: Myra MacPherson "All Governments Lie!"

From the Miami Book Fair International, an interview with Myra MacPherson, author of "All Governments Lie!: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone."

Myra MacPherson, formerly a journalist with the Washington Post, is the author of "Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation."

On Saturday, February 10 at 9:00 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm
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After Words: Brian Doherty, author of "Radicals for Capitalism" interviewed by Doug Bandow

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and the author of "This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground." His latest book, about the modern American libertarian movement, is called "Radicals for Capitalism." Mr. Doherty discusses his book with Doug Bandow, former senior fellow at the Cato Institute and current vice president of policy at Citizen Outreach, a limited-government public policy organization (www.citizenoutreach.com). Mr. Bandow's latest book is "Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire."

On Saturday, February 10 at 10:00 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 4:30 pm
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United States v. George W. Bush et al.
Elizabeth de la Vega with Garrison Keillor

Elizabeth de la Vega talks about her book, "United States v. George W. Bush et al.," at an event hosted by Common Good Books in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the book, Ms. De la Vega presents a fictional indictment of President Bush and members of his cabinet for the way they sold the invasion of Iraq to the American public. She charges them with "conspiracy to defraud the United States." Garrison Keillor, who owns Common Good Books, makes opening remarks.

Elizabeth de la Vega is a former federal prosecutor and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Minneapolis. She was also a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Branch Chief in San Jose, California. The author has been a regular contributor to TomDispatch.com since her retirement in 2004.

ASAP!


(and thanks for the coattail pull, Viva_La_Revolution)

discussion thread here - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x179311

Pino

On Saturday, February 10 at 11:15 pm
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2006 Texas Book Festival: Thomas Cahill "Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe"

In an interview at the Texas Book Festival, Thomas Cahill discussed his new book, "Mysteries of the Middle Ages," the fifth book in his Hinges of History series. In the book, Mr. Cahill explores advancements in art, science, and the status of women during the Medieval period.

Thomas Cahill has written five of the planned seven books in the Hinges of History series: "How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, " "The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels," "Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus," "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter," and "Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe."

On Saturday, February 10 at 11:30 pm and Sunday, February 11 at 6:00 am
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The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City
Dore Gold

Dore Gold talks about his new book, "The Fight for Jerusalem," at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute in New York City. In his book, Mr. Gold provides a history of Jerusalem going back three thousand years and explains why he thinks the city should exist under the sole soverignty of Israel.

Dore Gold is the author of "Hatred's Kingdom" and the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Mr. Gold served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 to 1999 and as foreign policy advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Commentary and the Wall Street Journal.

I'll stop yelling now.


Monet

Hi! Thanks for the thread.:hug:

*pant* *pant*!

On Sunday, February 11 at 12:30 am and at 7:00 am
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Sigmund Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind
Peter Kramer
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/publiclives/0107/btv012807_2b.ram

In his latest book, psychiatrist and public radio host Peter Kramer considers Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis - his contributions and the controversies surrounding them. Among other issues that continue to inform Freud's legacy, Kramer considers historians' contentions that Freud inaccurately represented his findings to complement his theories. Kramer describes Freud's contributions in areas such as seduction and dream analysis.

Psychiatrist and Brown University Professor Peter Kramer is author of the books "Listening to Prozac" and "Against Depression," among others. He is also host of the national public radio series "The Infinite Mind," for which he won a National Mental Health Association Media Award and the Gracie Allen Award from the American Women in Radio and Television.

On Sunday, February 11 at 1:30 am
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
Geoffrey Robertson

In "The Tyrannicide Brief" Geoffrey Robertson recounts the 1649 trial of King Charles I. Mr. Robertson explains that the king waged several civil wars throughout England and Parliament selected Puritan lawyer John Cooke to bring him to justice. The author details the trial at an event hosted by the International Peace Operation Association.

Geoffrey Robertson is a human rights lawyer and a UN war-crimes judge. He was involved in the cases against General Pinochet and Hastings Banda and in the training of judges for the trial of Saddam Hussein. He is also the author of "Crimes Against Humanity."

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On Sunday, February 11 at 8:00 am
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Chris Hedges
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0207/btv020407_4b.ram

In "American Fascists," former New York Times foreign correspondent and Harvard Divinity School graduate Chris Hedges warns that the Christian Right is threatening a tolerant, free American society. Hedges describes what he considers to be the movement's ideological ancestors - the Italian and German fascist movements of the early 20th century - and also argues that contemporary "American Fascism" manifests itself in militant, sexist, and homophobic behaviors and policies.

Chris Hedges is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. A former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, he was part of the team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of global terrorism. He also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is author of "Losing Moses on the Freeway" and "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School.

On Sunday, February 11 at 9:00 am and Monday, February 12 at 2:00 am
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A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance
Zev Chafets

Zev Chafets argues that American Jews should embrace Christian Evangelicals in his new book, "A Match Made in Heaven." Chafets, a former columnist for the New York Daily News and a founding editor of the Jerusalem Report magazine, claims that American Jews are influenced by the secular Democratic establishment and therefore misinterpret Evangelical intentions. To make his argument, he details his world travels, which include meetings with Jerry Falwell and a visit with West Point's Jewish cadets. He also describes the importance of a "Judeo-Evangelical Alliance" in the context of recent developments in the Middle East.

A native of Michigan, Zev Chafets moved to Jerusalem shortly after graduating from college. After joining the army and serving in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he became director of the government press office for then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and went on to become a founding editor of the Jerusalem Post Magazine. He is also a former columnist for the New York Daily News. His nine other books include "Members of the Tribe" and the novel "The Project."

On Sunday, February 11 at 9:45 am
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Debate on Religion and Reason with Sam Harris, "Letter to a Christian Nation," and Reza Aslan, "No god but God"
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0207/btv020407_4.ram

Does the Bible provide timeless prescriptions for our daily lives? Or does its inclusion of practices such as slavery preclude its ability to act as such a guide? Are Osama bin Laden's grievances with the United States purely theological, or also social and political? Reza Aslan, author of "No god but God," and Sam Harris, author of "Letter to a Christian Nation," take up these questions in this debate at the Los Angeles Public Library. The event also includes discussion on contemporary trends in Islam - including whether or not Muslims are unique in their religious fervor - and debate over the concept of the Koran as a perfect and immutable document. The debate is moderated by Jonathan Kirsch, author of "A History of the End of the World."

Born in Iran, Reza Aslan is a regular commentator for NPR's "Marketplace" and a Middle East Analyst for CBS News. His book "No god but God" was shortlisted for the Guardian (UK) First Book Award and nominated for a PEN USA award for research Non-Fiction. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy. Sam Harris is author of "Letter to a Christian Nation" and "The End of Faith," the latter of which won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. He blogs for the Washington Post and Newsweek websites, and is currently completing a doctorate in neuroscience. Moderator Jonathan Kirsch is the author of ten books, an L.A. Times Book Columnist, and an attorney specializing in publishing law and intellectual property.

On Sunday, February 11 at 12:30 pm and at 10:00 pm
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American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett discusses the lives of several American Muslims. In "American Islam," the author writes about immigrant and native-born Muslims as well as converts to Islam. He also details the struggle to be both faithful to their religion and patriotic citizens of the U.S. since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.

Paul Barrett is the director of the investigative reporting team at Business Week. He is the author of "The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America."

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On Sunday, February 11 at 2:00 pm
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Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
Barry Lando

In "Web of Deceit," Barry Lando argues that the current situation in Iraq is a result of decades of duplicitous international entanglements in the region. Beginning with World War I and extending to the present, Lando cites actions that he claims have caused massive death and long-term psychological trauma to the country's people - including the 1963 CIA-backed coup that brought the Baath Party to power, and America's role in the failed 1991 Iraqi revolt against Saddam Hussein.

Barry Lando spent 25 years as an investigative producer for the CBS program "60 Minutes," and is a former Time-Life South American correspondent. In 2004, he created the documentary "The Trial of Saddam Hussein, the Trial You'll Never See" with French Reporter Michel Despratx. He currently lives in Paris.

On Sunday, February 11 at 3:00 pm
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Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice
Ronald Olive
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/1206/btv123106_4.ram

From the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, Ronald Olive talks about the Jonathan Pollard spy case. Mr. Pollard was charged with selling over a million pages of classified material to the government of Israel during the 1980s. As part of the discussion, Mr. Olive gives an overview of the case and shows some of the evidence used against Pollard. Includes audience Q&A.

Ronald Olive led the investigation of Jonathan Pollard for the Naval Investigative Service, were he worked for over 20 years. He currently runs a consulting and investigations company based in Arizona.

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On Sunday, February 11 at 7:00 pm
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The Castle in the Forest: A Novel
Norman Mailer

From the Writer's Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, California, author Norman Mailer is interviewed by David Ulin, editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Norman Mailer's new novel, "The Castle in the Forest," is a fictionalized account of Adolf Hitler's childhood and adolescence.

Norman Mailer is the author of more than thirty books. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Armies of the Night," an account of his experiences demonstrating against the Vietnam War. He won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for "The Executioner's Song," a novel based on the execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. Mr. Mailer co-founded the Village Voice in 1955 and began covering politics as a journalist in 1960. He wrote about the Kennedy administration in "Presidential Papers" and the 1968 Democratic convention in "Miami and the Siege of Chicago." He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

On Monday, February 12 at 12:10 am
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2006 Miami Book Fair: Philip Gourevitch on The Paris Review

From the Miami Book Fair International, an interview with Philip Gourevitch, author of the introduction to "The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 1."

Philip Gourevitch is currently the editor of the Paris Review. He succeeded George Plimpton, who passed away in 2003. Mr. Gourevitch is the author of "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda."

On Monday, February 12 at 12:30 am
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Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers
Gene Epstein

Journalist Gene Epstein discusses his new book, "Econospinning," at a New York City Barnes & Noble. In his talk, Mr. Epstein makes the point that his fellow journalists frequently misrepresent or misinterpret economic data -- shaping data to fit a preexisting story rather than shaping their story around the data. Mr. Epstein says this behavior is driven by laziness and the desire to tell a compelling story, rather than by ideology. Among the journalists he critcizes are Lou Dobbs, Paul Krugman, and Steven Levitt.

Gene Epstein is the Economics Editor of Barron's and writes the column "Economic Beat." He was previously a senior economist at the New York Stock Exchange and has taught economics at St. John's University and the City University of New York.

On Monday, February 12 at 2:45 am
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One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups
Herman Badillo

Former congressman Herman Badillo argues that Hispanics don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups. In "One Nation, One Standard" he argues against the bilingual education that he once promoted and asserts tjat minority students put their self-esteem ahead of their academic performance. This event was hosted by the Manhattan Institute in New York City.

Herman Badillo became the nation’s first Puerto Rican-born congressman in 1970 and has also served as the borough president of the Bronx, deputy mayor of New York City, and chairman of the board of the City University of New York. He is currently a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

On Monday, February 12 at 4:45 am
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
T.J. Parsell
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/publiclives/1206/btv123006_2.ram

In this event from the UCLA School of Law, author T.J. Parsell describes his first-hand experiences as a victim of prison rape. He went to prison at age 17, after holding up a Photomat with a toy gun. He was gang raped his first day in prison and then his fellow inmates flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Mr. Parsell is currently the president of Stop Prisoner Rape. He talks about testifying before Congress in support of the Prisoner Rape Elimination Act of 2003, which provided for a commission to hold hearings and issue standards, in an attempt to hold corrections officials responsible for rapes that happen on their watch.

T.J. Parsell is the president of Stop Prisoner Rape and is a consultant to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. He testified in favor of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which passed in 2003.

On Monday, February 12 at 5:55 am
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Taner Akcam

Taner Akcam talks about the 1915 Armenian Genocide that claimed the lives of over one million Armenians. Professor Akcam examines how the Ottoman Turks responded to the charge that they were committing genocide and also discusses how the current Turkish government describes what happened. The talk was hosted by the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota. Includes Q&A.

Turkish historian Taner Akcam is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His books include "From Empire to Republic : Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide" and "Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey."

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On Monday, February 12 at 7:00 am
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
Elizabeth Kantor
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/0107/btv012007_4b.ram

In "The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature," Conservative Book Club Editor Elizabeth Kantor sets out to tell readers what she claims politically-correct English professors don't want them to know. Her take on the conventional canon includes arguments that "The Canterbury Tales" showed chivalry to greatly improve women's happiness, that Milton deemed all intellectual freedoms to be inherently Christian, and that Jane Austen enjoyed patriarchy. The book also includes guides to "Books You're Not Supposed to Read."

Elizabeth Kantor is editor of the Conservative Book Club and a contributor to the national conservative weekly Human Events. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in Philosophy from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

Pino Daeni

Francisco deQuevedo

Is it something she said? Not enough sex this week in the thread?
What is it? :cry: Please, please recommend this thread :cry: Oh for the love of all that is good...:cry:

Times a-wastin'...only a few more hours to do it. :cry: Please end this sorrow.

to reveal her wounded bitterness at what has come to pass...

Oh! for her gentle spirit's sake, I beseech you recommend this thread.

:rofl:

Maybe I should start the veiled and disturbing threats? :-)

perhaps the threats won't be necessary. :P

wow. thread is sloooooowwww. where everbody at? :shrug:


Morisot

Only thing to watch on Sundays.....

Souza (sp?), can't deal with him again.

There's a lot of good stuff for Lincoln fans airing on Sunday.

where ya been?

The "R" in my post was 9 minutes late.

It won't happen again.

we always manage... somehow. :evilgrin:

:(


:kick:

Only the book about "US VS George Bush" kind of truck me.

CNN...turned to "dark side." :shrug:

K&R, Viva. Thanks again for another week's brain food.

Just watched a Book TV rerun from November, "Miami Book Fair: The Education of Ronald Reagan", by Thomas Evans (810pm Sun Feb 11. Hadn't seen it before. The most intriguing thing I heard was that apparently GE sent Ronald Reagan on the road to speak to communities with a pro-Libertarian message, specifically crafted to undermine GE's unions to increase corporate profits.

Does anybody remember reading about this aspect of Reagan's career elsewhere? If I'm understanding Evans correctly, this is HUGE! How many former union members with fond memories of the Reagan years realize that, not only did he shift the very wealthy's income taxes onto their FICA, but that Reagan shifted his political allegiances from liberal to far right as part of a deliberate campaign to undermine unionism for GE's corporat profit.

was powerful