List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1990

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video)
Author Book Subject matter
January 7, 1990Sig MickelsonFrom Whistle Stop to Sound BiteMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
January 14, 1990John BarryThe Ambition and the PowerJim Wright; Newt Gingrich
January 21, 1990Fitzhugh GreenGeorge Bush: An Intimate PortraitGeorge H. W. Bush
January 28, 1990Charles FecherThe Diary of H.L. MenckenH.L. Mencken
February 4, 1990Jim MannBeijing Jeep: American Business in ChinaJeep Cherokee (XJ); Automobile industry in China; U.S.-China economic relations
February 11, 1990David BurnhamA Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRSthe Internal Revenue Service
February 18, 1990Peggy NoonanWhat I Saw at the RevolutionRonald Reagan; Reagan Administration
February 25, 1990Michael FumentoThe Myth of Heterosexual AIDSAIDS
February 27, 1990Hedley DonovanRight Places, Right TimesMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Time Magazine
March 4, 1990Richard BarnetThe Rockets' Red Glare: When America Goes to War—The Presidents and the PeopleMilitary history of the United States; Home front; United States home front during World War II
March 11, 1990Frederick KempeDivorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affairs with NoriegaManuel Noriega; United States invasion of Panama
March 18, 1990David HalevyInside the PLOThe Palestine Liberation Organization
March 25, 1990James AbourezkAdvise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. SenateMemoir/Autobiography; The United States Senate; South Dakota
April 1, 1990Fred GrahamHappy Talk: Confessions of a TV NewsmanMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
April 8, 1990Leonard SussmanPower, The Press and The Technology of Freedom History of the World Wide Web; Integrated Services Digital Network
April 15, 1990Helmut SchmidtMen and Powers: A Political RetrospectiveMemoir/Autobiography; West Germany
April 22, 1990Michael BaroneOur Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to ReaganHistory of the United States (1918–1945); History of the United States (1945–1964); History of the United States (1964–1980); History of the United States (1980–1991)
April 29, 1990Robert CaroMeans of AscentLyndon Johnson
May 6, 1990Morley SaferFlashbacks on Returning to VietnamMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Aftermath of the Vietnam War
May 13, 1990Brian Duffy and Steven EmersonThe Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie InvestigationPan Am Flight 103
May 20, 1990Allister SparksThe Mind of South AfricaSouth Africa
May 27, 1990Bette Bao LordLegacies: A Chinese MosaicMemoir/Autobiography; Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; Television in the People's Republic of China
June 3, 1990Dusko DoderGorbachev: Heretic in the KremlinMikhail Gorbachev
June 10, 1990Thomas SowellPreferential Policies: An International PerspectiveAffirmative action; Reverse discrimination
June 17, 1990Judith MillerOne, By One, By One: Facing the HolocaustAftermath of the Holocaust; Holocaust historiography; Holocaust commemoration
June 24, 1990Kevin PhillipsThe Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the Electorate in the Reagan AftermathReaganomics
July 1, 1990Chris OgdenMaggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in PowerMargaret Thatcher
July 8, 1990Denton WatsonLion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights LawsClarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
July 15, 1990Caspar WeinbergerFighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the PentagonMemoir/Autobiography; Reagan Administration; U.S. Department of Defense
July 22, 1990Teresa OdendahlCharity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic ElitePhilanthropy in the United States
July 29, 1990Michael ShapiroIn the Shadow of the Sun: A Korean Year of Love and SorrowMemoir/Autobiography; Economy of South Korea
August 5, 1990Dan Raviv and Yossi MelmanEvery Spy a PrinceIsraeli Intelligence Community
August 12, 1990Roger KimballTenured RadicalsModern liberalism in the United States; Higher education in the United States; Tenure
August 19, 1990Tad SzulcThen and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WWIIAftermath of World War II; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s
August 26, 1990Christopher WrenThe End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and ChinaCommunism; The Soviet Union; China
September 2, 1990Lee EdwardsMissionary for Freedom: The Life and Times of Walter JuddWalter Judd
September 9, 1990Robert DoleHistorical Almanac of the United States SenateHistory of the United States Senate
September 16, 1990M.A. FarberOutrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley HoaxTawana Brawley rape allegations
September 23, 1990Jannette DatesSplit Image: African Americans in the Mass MediaRepresentation of African-Americans in media
October 14, 1990Harold StassenEisenhower: Turning the World Toward PeaceDwight D. Eisenhower
October 21, 1990Tim WeinerBlank Check: The Pentagon's Black BudgetMilitary budget of the United States
October 28, 1990Pat ChoateAgents of Influence: How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic SystemLobbying in the United States; Japan – United States relations
November 4, 1990Paul TaylorSee How They Run: Electing a President in an Age of MediaocracyUnited States presidential election, 1988
November 11, 1990Blaine HardenAfrica: Dispatches From a Fragile ContinentAfrica
November 18, 1990Jean Edward SmithLucius D. Clay: An American LifeLucius D. Clay
November 25, 1990Martin MayerThe Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan IndustrySavings and loan crisis
December 2, 1990Cpt. Carol BarkalowIn the Men's HouseMemoir/Autobiography; Women in the military; United States Military Academy
December 9, 1990Sally Bedell SmithIn All His GloryWilliam S. Paley
December 16, 1990Shen TongAlmost a RevolutionTiananmen Square protests of 1989
December 23, 1990John Wallach and Janet WallachArafat: In the Eyes of the BeholderYasser Arafat
December 30, 1990Garry WillsUnder God: Religion and American PoliticsReligion and politics in the United States

References

  1. ↑ "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. 19 August 2004.
  2. ↑ Ellen Emry Heltzel (17 August 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian.
  3. ↑ Frank J. Prial (4 December 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
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