Book TV Schedule - April 15-17 [View All]

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After Words
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Weekly author interview and guest host program
This week, Journalist John Tayman discusses his book The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai, in an interview with Rep. Ed Case (D-HI).
(Saturday 9:00 PM ET, re-airs Sunday 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM ET)



Encore Booknotes
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Interviews from the archives of C- SPAN's classic program
This week, Charles Adams discusses his book For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization.
(Saturday 6:00 PM ET)



Other Weekend Highlights
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Anthony DePalma, author of The Man Who Invented Fidel, and Samuel Farber, author of The Origins of the Cuban Revolution, discuss Fidel Castro's role in the Cuban Revolution.
(Saturday 4:15 PM ET, re-airs Monday 12:00 AM ET)
Neal Boortz, radio talk show host and co-author of The Fair Tax Book, debates Michael Graetz, law professor at Yale University Law School and author of The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax, on the value of replacing the current federal tax system with the Fair Tax system.
(Saturday 7:00 PM ET, re-airs Sunday 2:30 and 10:30 AM ET)
Karen Armstrong talks about her book The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions.
(Sunday 12:00 PM ET, re-airs Sunday 7:00 PM ET)
Also, the Book TV Bus visits Portland, OR, this week for the Wordstock Book Festival.


BOOK TV Schedule

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Note: Program start times are approximate and all times are Eastern.


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Saturday, April 15

8:00 am American Presidents panel with Joyce Appleby, Gary Hart, Sean Wilentz, and Charles Calhoun

9:45 Gerard Gawalt, My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives

11:00 Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo, Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander

12:00 pm Michael Ratner, Bill Goodman, Maria Lahud, and Shayana Kadidal, Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush

1:45 Robert Stacy McCain, Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party

2:45 Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

4:15 Anthony DePalma and Samuel Farber, Cuban Revolution Panel

6:00 Encore Booknotes: Charles Adams, For Good & Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

7:00 Featured Program: Neal Boortz and Michael Graetz, Debate on the Fair Tax

9:00 After Words: After Words: John Tayman interviewed by Rep. Ed Case (D-HI)


10:00 Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

11:00 Teo Babun, The Cuban Revolution: Years of Promise


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Sunday, April 16

12:00 am Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

1:30 Dennis Smith, San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

2:30 Neal Boortz and Michael Graetz, Debate on the Fair Tax

4:00 Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

5:45 Bob Zeller, The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography

6:45 Kevin McKiernan, The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland

8:30 Mark Skousen, ed., The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

9:30 General Assignment: Marilyn Johnson, The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

10:30 Featured Program: Neal Boortz and Michael Graetz, Debate on the Fair Tax

12:00 pm History on Book TV: Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

1:15 History on Book TV: Judith Pearson, The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy

3:00 After Words: Matthew Bogdanos interviewed by Angela M.H. Schuster

4:00 Eugene Linden, The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations

5:00 Public Lives: Priscilla Buckley, Living It Up at National Review: A Memoir

6:00 After Words: After Words: John Tayman interviewed by Rep. Ed Case (D-HI)

7:00 History on Book TV: Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

8:10 Larry L. King, In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor

9:00 After Words: After Words: John Tayman interviewed by Rep. Ed Case (D-HI)

10:00 Robert Stacy McCain, Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party

11:00 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book: The Shape of Our Lives: Sprawl and Urban Planning: Douglas Morris "It's a Sprawl World After All" and Suzanne Morse "Smart Communities"


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Monday, April 17

12:00 am Anthony DePalma and Samuel Farber, Cuban Revolution Panel

1:30 Robert Stacy McCain, Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party

2:20 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book: Jeff Biggers Interview

2:30 Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

3:30 Gabriel Meyer, War and Faith in Sudan

4:45 Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

6:00 Hugh Hewitt, Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority

7:00 Danny Schechter, When News Lies: Media Complicity and the Iraq War


complete schedule here - http://www.booktv.org/schedule/