Book TV Schedule: January 19th - 21st

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: January 19-21
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM ET
Kiron Skinner, associate professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, is co-author of the recently published book, The Strategy of Campaigning, which looks at the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin. Prof. Skinner co-wrote the book with three other authors, including current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She discusses the book with Marcus Mabry, international business editor at the New York Times and author of Twice As Good:Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power.


Weekend Highlights
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Seth Shulman, The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
Science and technology journalist Seth Shulman recounts the invention of the telephone and contends that Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea for the phone from Elisha Gray. Mr. Shulman presents a series of evidence arguing that Mr. Bell copied a caveat to a patent that Mr. Gray had formerly filed during his research on transmitting multiple telegrams. Seth Shulman presents his book at the Broadside Bookshop in Northampton, Massachusetts.
(Saturday 12 PM, Sunday 12 AM and 8 PM ET)

Michael Shermer, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
Michael Shermer talks about the evolutionary basis for our current way of thinking about economics. The event was hosted by the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 3:30 AM and 8 AM ET)

Joseph Palermo, Robert F. Kennedy And the Death of American Idealism
Joseph Palermo talks about Robert Kennedy's life and influence on American politics in the 1950s and 60s. The book covers his role in the national debate on topics such as civil rights, communism, poverty and the Vietnam war. The event was held at Avid Reader in Sacramento, California.
(Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 2 AM and 4:30 PM ET)

Drew Hansen, The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation
In the first book published about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, Drew Hansen discusses influences and inspirations that led to it's composition. His analysis also includes an examination of the speech as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and an improvised sermon. This event was held at the Los Angeles Public Library.
(Sunday 10 PM, Monday 6:45 AM ET)




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


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Saturday, January 19, 2008
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8:00 AM 1 hr, 1 min Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America
Author: Sherry Boschert

9:00 AM 1 hr, 47 min Escaping the Resource Curse
Author: Jeffrey Sachs

11:00 AM 54 min Almost Human: Making Robots Think
Author: Lee Gutkind

12:00 PM 37 min History
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secrets
Author: Seth Shulman

2:00 PM 53 min History
The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days
Author: Mark Edmundson

3:00 PM 1 hr, 21 min History
American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese Americans Disloyalty in World War II
Author: Eric Muller

4:30 PM 1 hr, 29 min Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Author: Peniel Joseph

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes: "Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement"
Author: John Lewis

7:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
Author: Michael Shermer

8:00 PM 55 min History
Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line
Author: Adrian Burgos

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Kiron Skinner, "The Strategy of Campaigning," interviewed by Marcus Mabry

10:00 PM 1 hr, 27 min History
Robert F. Kennedy and the Death of American Idealism
Author: Joseph Palermo

11:30 PM 27 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Ed Bearss, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
Author: Ed Bearss


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Sunday, January 20, 2008
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12:00 AM 37 min History
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secrets
Author: Seth Shulman

1:00 AM 1 hr, 15 min Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Author: Thomas DeWolf

2:00 AM 1 hr, 27 min History
Robert F. Kennedy and the Death of American Idealism
Author: Joseph Palermo

3:30 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
Author: Michael Shermer

4:45 AM 1 hr, 11 min History
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Author: Thomas DeFrank

6:00 AM 1 hr, 11 min History
George H.W. Bush
Author: Timothy Naftali

7:30 AM 31 min Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Author: Elizabeth Samet

8:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
Author: Michael Shermer

9:00 AM 1 hr, 13 min 2007 Harlem Book Fair: Writing from an International Perspective
Authors: Dale Butler; Yvette Christianse; Felicia Luna Lemus; Leslie Musoko; Judy Powell; Marie Umeh

10:30 AM 1 hr, 10 min Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent
Author: Mike German

12:00 PM 56 min Politics
The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House
Author: Garrett Graff

1:00 PM 55 min State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence
Author: Philip Dine

2:00 PM 1 hr, 18 min Politics
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life - A Biography
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller

3:30 PM 1 hr, 6 min Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
Author: Jeffrey Ogbar

4:30 PM 1 hr, 27 min History
Robert F. Kennedy and the Death of American Idealism
Author: Joseph Palermo

6:00 PM 58 min After Words: Kiron Skinner, "The Strategy of Campaigning," interviewed by Marcus Mabry

7:00 PM 51 min The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior -- And How We Can Reclaim Our Courage
Author: Martha Stout

8:00 PM 37 min History
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secrets
Author: Seth Shulman

9:00 PM 58 min After Words: Kiron Skinner, "The Strategy of Campaigning," interviewed by Marcus Mabry

10:00 PM 1 hr, 10 min History
The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation
Author: Drew Hansen

11:15 PM 45 min History
Jason Emerson, "The Madness of Mary Lincoln"
Author: Jason Emerson


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Monday, January 21, 2008
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12:00 AM 58 min After Words: Kiron Skinner, "The Strategy of Campaigning," interviewed by Marcus Mabry

1:00 AM 1 hr, 7 min History
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis That Shocked The Nation
Author: Elizabeth Jacoway

2:15 AM 45 min Privacy In Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
Author: James B. Rule

3:00 AM 58 min After Words: Kiron Skinner, "The Strategy of Campaigning," interviewed by Marcus Mabry

4:00 AM 1 hr, 13 min 2007 Harlem Book Fair: Writing from an International Perspective
Authors: Dale Butler; Yvette Christianse; Felicia Luna Lemus; Leslie Musoko; Judy Powell; Marie Umeh

5:30 AM 1 hr, 7 min History
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis That Shocked The Nation
Author: Elizabeth Jacoway

6:45 AM 1 hr, 10 min History
The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation
Author: Drew Hansen





It's the dead of Winter, and it's COLD outside! So... I thought I'd heat the thread up a little this week...





what the hell, I'll throw in a 6-pack too...

R#1

Good weather to stay inside and watch the teevee, huh? :)

There. I did it again.

that was the whole idea! :rofl:


damn, I crack myself up. :D

Yes, you did.

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

:hug:

:kick:

are you guys getting this cold front too? It's FRIGID up here! :hug:

:rofl:

I waz being deadly series.. it's like 33 degrees here... we're freezing our *****'s off! :sternlooksmilie:


:P

It's mild here. Last night was very clear, the kind of night where the stars all seem lower.

"the Death of Idealism." ...Sigh...

:co-sigh:

:hi: how ya been? Keeping warm?...

:D

and damn...

:hi:

RL

:evilgrin:

Better late than never.

I see you've shamelessly employed erotica to garner recommendations.


I'm so proud of you, Vivala...:cry:




:loveya:

:loveya:

I'm busy once every ten months or so. :-)

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