Book TV Schedule: September 8th - 10th

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: September 8-10
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM ET
Lt. Col. John Nagl, a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current war in Iraq, helped write The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, under the guidance of Gen. David Petraeus who is currently leading the "surge" in Iraq. Lt. Col. Nagl talks about the manual with Sean Naylor, senior writer for Army Times and the author of Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda.


Weekend Highlights
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Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman argues that political correctness in campus healthcare harms students by tacitly approving casual sex. She also claims that girls and women are bombarded with information about preventing pregnancy, but do not receive adequate medical information about fertility risks caused by advanced maternal age. Dr. Grossman speaks at a National Press Club event hosted by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, where she is a Senior Fellow.
(Sunday 9:15 AM, Monday 1 AM ET)

Ahmed Hashim and Nir Rosen, Discussion of the Insurgency in Iraq
This coming Monday and Tuesday, September 10th and 11th, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will deliver their progress report on Iraq to members of Congress. During this event from May 2006, held at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, Nir Rosen and Ahmed Hashim talk about the insurgency in Iraq and the possibilities of a full-blown civil war occurring. Both participants, who have authored books on the subject, describe the development and changing nature of the resistance forces in Iraq and the Bush administration's strategy to combat them. Rosen and Hashim also discuss the rise of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his army, who the authors say wield a huge amount of power in Iraq now and are responsible for a series of recent attacks on Iraqi Sunnis. Following their remarks, both authors answer questions from the audience. The discussion is moderated by National Public Radio (NPR) foreign correspondent Anne Garrels.
(Sunday 1:30 PM and 8 PM ET)

Mark Skousen, The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
From FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Mark Skousen discusses his book The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes, which describes the contributions of each to the field of economics. Skousen holds the Benjamin Franklin chair of Management at Grantham University and has taught at Columbia Business School and Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including The Making of Modern Economics and The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin.
(Sunday 12:40 AM, 7:10 AM and 7:00 PM ET)


** C-SPAN Special Alert **

New Presidential History Series on C-SPAN This Fall
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On Fridays this fall, join us as C-SPAN presents Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered - a series of programs that takes you inside the Presidential Libraries' vaults. Discover never- or rarely-seen film, video, recordings, and artifacts that give a first-person view of the presidency from the men who held the office and those who served around them.

Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered Program Schedule
LIVE on C-SPAN, Fridays at 8pm ET

September 7: Hoover Library
September 14: Roosevelt Library
September 21: Truman Library
September 28: Eisenhower Library
October 5: Kennedy Library
October 12: Johnson Library
October 19: Nixon Library
October 26: Ford Library
November 2: Carter Library
November 9: Reagan Library
November 16: Bush Library
November 30: Clinton Library




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

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Saturday, September 8, 2007

8:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min 2007 LA Times Festival of Books - 20th Century Lives Panel

9:00 AM 2 hr, 59 min In Depth: Christopher Hitchens

12:00 PM 1 hr, 1 min History
Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
Author: Bruce Watson

1:00 PM 50 min History
The Last Days of the Incas
Author: Kim MacQuarrie

1:45 PM 7 min BTV BUS - Zachary Shore "Breeding Bin Ladens"
Author: Zachary Shore

2:00 PM 1 hr, 39 min History
The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution
Author: Antonio Rafael de la Cova

3:40 PM 1 hr, 6 min History
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Author: Arnold Rampersad

4:45 PM 11 min BTV BUS - Peter Sussman "Decca"
Author: Peter Sussman

5:00 PM 58 min Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder
Author: Micah Halpern

6:00 PM 1 hr Encore Booknotes
Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House
Author: Phyllis Lee Levin

7:00 PM 1 hr, 7 min Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him
Author: Humberto Fontova

8:10 PM 48 min History
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
Author: Greg Behrman

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Lt. Col. John Nagl, contributor and author of foreword to "The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual" interviewed by Sean Naylor

10:00 PM 45 min Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman
Author: Seth Hettena

10:40 PM 13 min BTV BUS - Michael Wolfe "Taking Back Islam"
Author: Michael Wolfe

11:00 PM 1 hr, 5 min Discussion on the life, legacy, and writings of Barry Goldwater
Authors: David Boaz; Edward Crane; Lee Edwards; Franklin Foer; CC Goldwater


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Sunday, September 9, 2007

12:05 AM 5 min BTV BUS - James Olson "Fair Play"
Author: James Olson

12:10 AM 30 min Ask & Tell: Gay & Lesbian Veterans Speak Out
Author: Steve Estes

12:40 AM 50 min FreedomFest 2007 - Mark Skousen "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes"
Author: Mark Skousen

1:30 AM 55 min Garrison Keillor on His Life in Libraries
Author: Garrison Keillor

2:20 AM 5 min BTV BUS - James Olson "Fair Play"
Author: James Olson

2:30 AM 1 hr, 39 min History
The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution
Author: Antonio Rafael de la Cova

4:05 AM 7 min BTV BUS - Meredith Coppola "Made A Difference For That One"
Author: Meredith Coppola

4:15 AM 1 hr, 28 min Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement
Authors: Mark Crispin Miller; Scott Ritter

5:40 AM 13 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Travis McDade "The Book Thief"
Author: Travis McDade

6:00 AM 1 hr, 11 min Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Author: Eboo Patel

7:10 AM 50 min FreedomFest 2007 - Mark Skousen "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes"
Author: Mark Skousen

8:00 AM 1 hr, 3 min Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools
Authors: Rudy Crew; Thomas Dyja

9:00 AM 7 min BTV BUS - Meredith Coppola "Made A Difference For That One"
Author: Meredith Coppola

9:10 AM 4 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Del. Donna Christensen (D-VI)
Author: Del. Donna Christensen

9:15 AM 1 hr, 5 min Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
Author: Miriam Grossman

10:15 AM 7 min 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference: New Orleans Public Library Interview
Author: Rica Trigs

10:30 AM 45 min The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
Author: Jack Goldsmith

11:15 AM 28 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism
Author: Carrie Lukas

11:45 AM 14 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Daniel Mendelsohn "The Lost"
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn

12:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min The Fire This Time
Author: Randall Kenan

1:15 PM 10 min 2007 BookExpo America: PublicAffairs
Author: Susan Weinberg

1:30 PM 58 min The Insurgency in Iraq
Authors: Ahmed Hashim; Nir Rosen

2:30 PM 59 min Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
Author: Ilario Pantano

3:30 PM 30 min Ask & Tell: Gay & Lesbian Veterans Speak Out
Author: Steve Estes

4:00 PM 1 hr, 1 min History
Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
Author: Bruce Watson

5:00 PM 51 min History
2007 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Jean Edward Smith: "FDR"
Author: Jean Edward Smith

5:50 PM 3 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. John Hall (D-NY)
Author: Rep. John Hall

5:50 PM 2 min 2007 Get Caught Reading: Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) (1:03)
Author: Rep. Howard Coble

6:00 PM 57 min After Words: Lt. Col. John Nagl, contributor and author of foreword to "The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual" interviewed by Sean Naylor

7:00 PM 50 min FreedomFest 2007 - Mark Skousen "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes"
Author: Mark Skousen

7:50 PM 7 min BTV BUS - Zachary Shore "Breeding Bin Ladens"
Author: Zachary Shore

8:00 PM 58 min The Insurgency in Iraq
Authors: Ahmed Hashim; Nir Rosen

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Lt. Col. John Nagl, contributor and author of foreword to "The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual" interviewed by Sean Naylor

10:00 PM 1 hr, 12 min History
Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
Author: Juan Cole

11:10 PM 38 min The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and why it will rise again)
Author: Clint Johnson


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Monday, September 10, 2007

12:00 AM 57 min After Words: Lt. Col. John Nagl, contributor and author of foreword to "The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual" interviewed by Sean Naylor

1:00 AM 1 hr, 5 min Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
Author: Miriam Grossman

2:05 AM 1 hr, 2 min Prisoners: A Muslim & A Jew across the Middle East Divide
Author: Jeffrey Goldberg

3:05 AM 13 min 2007 VA Festival of the Book: Travis McDade "The Book Thief"
Author: Travis McDade

3:15 AM 9 min 2007 BookExpo America: Peter Wiley
Author: Peter Wiley

3:30 AM 1 hr, 1 min History
Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
Author: Bruce Watson

4:30 AM 48 min History
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe
Author: Greg Behrman

5:15 AM 42 min 2007 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair: Dan Walker
Author: Dan Walker

6:00 AM 57 min National Association of Black Journalists Convention Panel on News and Controversy with Marcus Mabry, Cora Daniels, Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher, and Karen Grigsby Bates
Authors: Cora Daniels; Michael Fletcher; Karen Grigsby Bates; Jeffrey Henderson; Marcus Mabry; Kevin Merida

7:00 AM 58 min Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder
Author: Micah Halpern


program details at: http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

[saltpoint]

1. Thank you for posting this. The John Hall program looks really good.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. that's only 3 minutes long!

:hi:

there's a few really good sounding ones on this weekend. :popcorn:

The Last Days of the Incas; Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman; and Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement.

[saltpoint]

4. O definitely. Some GREAT stuff on there... agree with you completely.

And I say thanks again for your putting up on the boards tonight.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. thanks you!

...just doin' my little part for the cause. :blush:

[EFerrari]

16. It is that John Hall or some other John Hall?

:silly:

[Kurovski]

2. K&R

These really are the dog-eared days of Summer.

Nobody's home. :shrug: :loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. ...

just us, but that's ok, we're the creme of the crop! :crazy:

[Kurovski]

7. Yeah.

From the nut orchard.

Best is still best.

[EFerrari]

19. I'm getting too old to stay up that late. lol

[Kurovski]

8. Rest in peace, Madeleine L'Engle

[Kurovski]

9. OMG. Where is everyone?

I'm going to have to PM Good Lady Sfex. :-)

[lpbk2713]

10. Circuit City.

:shrug:

[Kurovski]

11. Could be.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

14. See, engraved invitations work.

Late for dinner.

:kick:

[Kurovski]

22. No matter the time, being graced by your presence is golden.

:hug:

[EFerrari]

24. I apologize for being awol.

Unlike some people we know.

[Kurovski]

12. A kick before heading out the door...

:kick: Have a good day, all.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. Today’s picks…

The Last Days of the Incas
Author: Kim MacQuarrie
Saturday, September 8, at 1:00 PM
Kim MacQuarrie recounts the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire beginning with the landing of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his army of 167 men in 1532. The Spanish were outnumbered 200 to 1 yet were able to seize the Inca capital, Cuzco and dispose the Inca ruler within a year of arrival. The Incas were forced into the Amazon and a 36-year guerrilla war with the Spanish ensued. The author relays the last days of the Inca empire and examines the excavation of Inca artifacts. Kim MacQuarrie discusses his book at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, Colorado.


Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman
Author: Seth Hettena
Saturday, September 8, at 10:00 PM
In "Feasting on the Spoils" reporter Seth Hettena tells the story of eight-term Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA), who retired in 2005 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, fraud, and tax evasion.

[EFerrari]

17. Re The Last Days of the Incas (which I want to read):

I watched a documentary on PBS in early August on this topic. And, it started off with the find of a native burial ground full of individuals who had died violently. As the piece unraveled, the authors came to the conclusion that these were warriors who had been killed by other Incas who teamed up with Pizzaro to put down the rebellion.

In other words, this group of researchers thought it was nonsense that Pizarro put down the rebellion with his guys, and that it was only possible because there were factions in the Empire who wanted to use him as a useful idiot. At least two of these did nearly all of the fighting and that's how the rebellion was put down.

Part of the story turns on the fact that Pizarro had taken an Incan Princess as a wife. And when she became aware that the rebels were going to attack, she sent a runner to her mother to ask for warriors to defend the town from the rebellion.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. Feasting on the Spoils on now kick! Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman

[Pithy Cherub]

15. Book People are My People!

:bounce:

Oh, We/I just love this, Viva. Thanks!

[EFerrari]

18. Ditto!

:bounce: to the top.

[TacticalPeek]

20. Lt. Col. John Nagl at 8:59 pm ET

After Words with John Nagl
C-SPAN, BookTV
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
09/05/2007 - 0:56

Nagl, John A. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
Naylor, Sean D. Senior Writer, News Service

Lt. Col. John Nagl talked about The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, originally released as a government document in December 2006 and now published by the University of Chicago Press. Lt. Col. John Nagl, a veteran of both Opertation Desert Storm and the current war in Iraq, was a contributor to the book and its foreword. The book was prepared under the guidance of General David Petraeus who was currently leading the "surge" in Iraq and would report on the effectiveness of the strategy in the coming week. The guest interviewer was Sean Naylor, senior writer for Army Times and the author of Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda.

Lieutenant Colonel Nagl also co-wrote Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and wrote the foreword to a new edition of Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during World War II, both published by the University Of Chicago Press.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

21. Kicking the best weekly DU thread.

:kick:

[Kurovski]

25. A kick for the best kicker of the best weekly DU thread.

Check out sfexpat2000's great impeachment thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1764469

[EFerrari]

26. And a kick for our best propaganda catapulter!

(I hope that's a word. :silly: )

:kick:

[Kurovski]

27. Sure. Why not?

"Our" "president" makes stuff up all the time. :D

When I was involved with a production of Romeo and Juliet we renamed "Lady Capulet" "Lady Catapult". (At rehersal.)

[EFerrari]

29. My friend was cast in "Antigone" and instead of saying

"those dirty Polynicians" he said "those dirty Polynesians" in rehearsal. We held our breath for the whole run every time he got to that line. lol

[Kurovski]

30. Because of "Mutiny on the Bounty"

when I think "Polynesian", my brain automatically says "Happy and sexy".

My simple little brain. :-)

[EFerrari]

28. 7 votes. Cool.

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