Book TV Schedule: October 13th - 15th

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: October 13-15
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM ET
Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her books include Telling the Truth, America: A Patriotic Primer, and A Time for Freedom. In her new memoir, she looks back at her life as a child growing up in Casper, Wyoming. Mrs. Cheney discusses her book with Nancy Gibbs, editor- at-large for Time magazine and co-author of The Preacher and the Presidents, the recently published biography of Billy Graham.


Weekend Highlights
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Panel Discussions on the 50th anniversary of Atlas Shrugged
October 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's bestselling novel. To celebrate the anniversary, the Atlas Society held a conference in Washington, DC to discuss Rand's philosophy and the impact of the book. Book TV will air three of the panels consecutively on Saturday afternoon.
Anne Heller, Ayn Rand biographer; Mimi Gladstein, author of Atlas Shrugged: A Reader's Companion; and David Kelley, Atlas Society senior fellow, talk about Rand's life, writing and impact in academia. The discussion is moderated by Nigel Ashford of the Institute for Humane Studies. (Saturday 12 PM ET)
Tibor Machan of Chapman University, William Thomas of the Atlas Society, and David Mayer of Capital University talk about Rand's views on ethics, life, and the American Revolution. The discussion is moderated by Douglas Rasmussen of St. John's University. (Saturday 1:10 PM ET)
Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Edward Crane of the Cato Institute, Edward Hudgins of the Atlas Society, and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal talk about Ayn Rand's views on politics, the fight for freedom, and the future of objectivism. (Saturday 2:25 PM ET)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Journals: 1952-2000
A panel of former colleagues of the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. discusses his recently published journals that consist of writings from 1952 to 2000. Panelists include Eric Foner, David Nasaw, Louise Mirer, and James Basker. The event takes place at the New York Historical Society in New York City.
(Saturday 10 PM ET)


Memorial Tribute to Molly Ivins
From the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a memorial tribute to syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, who died in January 2007. Speakers include Maya Angelou, Kathleen Chalfont, Gail Collins, Lou Dubose, Garrison Keillor, John Leonard, Eden Lipson, Anthony Romero, and Calvin Trillin. The event coincides with the release of Molly Ivins' last book, Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights, co-authored with Lou Dubose.
(Sunday 10 PM, Monday 3 AM ET)


Wally Lamb, I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
Wally Lamb teaches a writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a maximum-security women's prison in Connecticut. I'll Fly Away is a collection of writings by workshop participants -- eighteen inmates and two co-facilitators. Their essays and stories explain how the women came to be in prison and the experiences they've had while incarcerated.
(Sunday 1:30 AM ET)




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

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

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

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

9:00 AM 2 hr, 58 min In Depth: David Horowitz

12:00 PM 1 hr, 13 min Ayn Rand Panel 1 "Atlas Shrugged"
Authors: Nigel Ashford; Mimi Gladstein; Anne Heller; Edward Hudgins; David Kelly

1:10 PM 1 hr, 14 min Ayn Rand Panel 2 "Atlas Shrugged"
Authors: Tibor Machan; David Mayer; Douglas Rasmussen; William Thomas

2:25 PM 1 hr, 13 min Ayn Rand Panel 4 "Atlas Shrugged"
Authors: Edward Crane; John Fund; Fred Smith

4:00 PM 30 min History
2007 National Book Festival: Douglas Wilson, "Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words"
Author: Douglas Wilson

4:30 PM 1 hr, 34 min India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Author: Ramachandra Guha

6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes: "The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent"
Author: Robert Caro

7:00 PM 32 min Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Author: Charlie Savage

7:30 PM 1 hr, 31 min An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Author: Randall Robinson

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Lynne Cheney, author of "Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family" interviewed by Nancy Gibbs

10:00 PM 52 min History
Panel Discussion of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "Journals: 1952-2000" including Eric Foner, David Nasaw, and Louise Mirrer
Authors: James Basker; Eric Foner; Louise Mirrer; David Nasaw; Andrew Schlesinger

11:00 PM 1 hr, 1 min iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
Author: Mark Andrejevic


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Sunday, October 14, 2007

12:00 AM 1 hr, 12 min Beyond Megachurch Myths: What We Can Learn from America's Largest Churches
Author: Scott Thumma

1:30 AM 1 hr, 29 min I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
Author: Wally Lamb

3:00 AM 1 hr, 26 min The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction
Author: Michael Ledeen

4:30 AM 1 hr, 24 min The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Authors: John Mearsheimer; Stephen Walt

6:00 AM 54 min The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control
Author: Abraham Foxman

7:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min Larry Sabato author of "A More Perfect Constitution" and Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes authors of "The Genius of America"
Authors: Eric Lane; Michael Oreskes; Larry Sabato

8:00 AM 1 hr, 37 min New Yorker Festival: Iraq Revisited Panel
Authors: Ali Allawi; Jon Lee Anderson; David Kilcullen; Phebe Marr; George Packer

10:00 AM 50 min War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror
Author: Robert "Buzz" Patterson

11:00 AM 1 hr, 1 min iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
Author: Mark Andrejevic

12:00 PM 1 hr, 25 min History
Panel on The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Author: David Halberstam

1:30 PM 1 hr, 29 min I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
Author: Wally Lamb

3:00 PM 1 hr, 12 min Beyond Megachurch Myths: What We Can Learn from America's Largest Churches
Author: Scott Thumma

4:30 PM 1 hr, 31 min An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Author: Randall Robinson

6:00 PM 57 min After Words: Lynne Cheney, author of "Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family" interviewed by Nancy Gibbs

7:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min Larry Sabato author of "A More Perfect Constitution" and Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes authors of "The Genius of America"
Authors: Eric Lane; Michael Oreskes; Larry Sabato

8:00 PM 43 min Eagle Council - Jerome Corsi "The Late, Great USA"
Author: Jerome Corsi

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Lynne Cheney, author of "Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family" interviewed by Nancy Gibbs

10:00 PM 1 hr, 9 min Memorial Tribute to Molly Ivins
Authors: Lou Dubose; Molly Ivins

11:15 PM 50 min War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror
Author: Robert "Buzz" Patterson


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Monday, October 15, 2007

12:00 AM 57 min After Words: Lynne Cheney, author of "Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family" interviewed by Nancy Gibbs

1:00 AM 1 hr, 25 min History
Panel on The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Author: David Halberstam

2:30 AM 33 min Caucus of Corruption: The Truth about the New Democratic Majority
Authors: Matt Margolis; Mark Noonan

3:00 AM 1 hr, 9 min Memorial Tribute to Molly Ivins
Authors: Lou Dubose; Molly Ivins

4:15 AM 1 hr, 16 min Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Author: Bjorn Lomborg

5:30 AM 1 hr, 1 min iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
Author: Mark Andrejevic

6:30 AM 1 hr, 16 min The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy
Author: Glenn Kessler

[Kurovski]

1. Howdy!

:hi:

[EFerrari]

2. "Damn you, Khan!

lol

:loveya:

[Kurovski]

4. Hey, it's my favorite activist!

:hug:

You let me go first on purpose! I saw you out there lurking around the Latest Page. :loveya:

My "Madame President" thread got locked. :D

After 14 hours! Imagine that.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. I missed it

:(

got a link? :evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

6. I'll PM it.

It's against the rules otherwise.

We had to clear the GenDiss decks for a dignified Gore celebration!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. oh jeez. I probably just got my moderator ap. thrown in the trash can!

:scared:

;) thanks :loveya:

[EFerrari]

22. Is it too late to apply?

I was thinking that serving as a mod might adjust my attitude in a good way and keep me out of trouble and graveyards. lol

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. I don't think so...

the new list comes out on the 24th, so before then, anyway :P
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=281

[EFerrari]

29. Okay, I've put the thing together, stamps and all.

Note to admin: this is your best chance of shutting me up for a few months. lol

[Viva_La_Revolution]

34. Good luck!

:hug:

[EFerrari]

8. There's no accounting for the mod's viewing pleasures.

lol

:)

[Kurovski]

9. Pleasure...yeah...that's the word.

:D

[Kurovski]

3. Mrs Cheney.

Oh lord of mercy.

You know this thread is going to need a lot of kicks if it is to survive the onslaught of that handsome award-hogging hippie, Al Gore.

[Kurovski]

10. Oh Vivala, dear...

This one would make a good separate post in GD for Sunday, don't you think?

Memorial Tribute to Molly Ivins
From the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a memorial tribute to syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, who died in January 2007. Speakers include Maya Angelou, Kathleen Chalfont, Gail Collins, Lou Dubose, Garrison Keillor, John Leonard, Eden Lipson, Anthony Romero, and Calvin Trillin. The event coincides with the release of Molly Ivins' last book, Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights, co-authored with Lou Dubose.
(Sunday 10 PM, Monday 3 AM ET)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. Marvolous choice...

I was so pleased :) to see this tribute after seeing the L. Cheney and Ayn Rand programs :puke:

[Kurovski]

12. Indubitably.

Yes.

[EFerrari]

13. Kickers

[Kurovski]

14. Good night kick.

[joanski0]

15. Thanks for the schedule.

I was just about to go to C-Span to look over the schedule for the weekend. Thanks.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. nothing worth watching till Ghandi Kick!

[EFerrari]

17. I *love* your reading graphics.

But then, in my kidhood, I spent a lot if time on a rumpled bed, in rumpled clothes, ruining my eyes. "You're going to go BLIND!"

:loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. I must say, I love doing this thread

you guys make it so fun.

can you believe it started 2 1/2 years ago with this..?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3608990

[EFerrari]

21. Wow! That's simply amazing, Viva!

(And, what the heck is the Griffith material? It sounds very bad, lol.)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. google...

The New Pearl Harbor

[Kurovski]

27. I nearly went blind too.

But let's not get into that.

[EFerrari]

28. Please don't make me go there.

:rofl:

[Kurovski]

30. Too late!

But seriously folks...the instant I saw that painting of the kid reading near a window and a wall of books, I had the same remembrance.

Difference being that those tomes look awfully expensive, and would be the kind I'd have gotten from the library.

[EFerrari]

31. When I was a kid, the only book in the house was

a one volume encyclopedia my grandmother had. Family of immigrants and barely making supper stretch every night. No paper delivery, no mags in the mail. Just, people working hard to make the house payment and feed everyone. I didn't know that at the time. I thought that was normal.

My mom accidentally told me to read "Little Women" when I was about four. (She had watched the movie. That's what she had time to do.) And, that work refers to just about every great book that existed at the time. So, when I was a little older, I'd geekily go into the school library and check out the works that Alcott referred to in Little Women.

After that, instead of a cash allowance, I asked Mom to buy me a book every week. What the hell was I thinking? That book usually only lasted until Tuesday night.

lol

[Kurovski]

32. My mom worked at the offices of World Book encyclopedia

for a while and got a set at a discount, which I think was around $200. They spent a lot of time paying it off. I read the thing constantly for over a decade. (She'd get the Year Books, too.)

We lived in my grandparent's two-flat when I was young, in the basement apt. They offered it for free, but my dad said "no, I'm paying." So every month he'd pay it and the next day my grandmother would come downstairs and hand back the $50 to my mom! He never knew of that arrangement.

I think my folks got the paper from my grandparents then. (later, when my mom & dad got better jobs we had three papers. That's the reading they mostly did. They too, were about the business of survival for the family.) We didn't have a lot of books until I started hauling them home--mostly from resale and the trash!

I have a memory of my grandfather reading the Chicago Tribune comics to me. One day when I was 5 or so, he was reading Pogo to me, and he laughed. I didn't "get it" and asked him why that was funny, and he said "you'll know when you're older." :-)

Mostly we went to the library, and one day I'll bore you with my vivid memory of the first time my mom took us.

[EFerrari]

33. Please bore me asap!

:hug:

[Kurovski]

35. I like being bored by you too!

:D :hug:

Since you and V may both soon be silenced by your moderator status, I'll need plenty of material to kick the BTV thread in the future!

Until then...

[EFerrari]

36. If you need material, I know a decent writer.

Or, she says she's decent.

lol

[Kurovski]

37. But haven't we yet learned...

that decency doesn't get a thread kicked around here?

[KoKo]

18. An Awful LOT of Lynn Cheney hawking her book it seems....

At least my glance down the list seems to my eye that it's Lynn's whole weekend on Booknotes.

The Molly Ivans Tribute is the Star!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. It's normal for them to repeat AfterWords several times...

but on top of all the Ayn Rand stuff I'm feeling a bit nauseous. :eyes:

[Bozita]

24. Is this the Halloween Haunted House weekend from BOOK-TV?

Scary people saying scary stuff followed by even scarier people.

[EFerrari]

26. That Horowitz segment is enough to put you off teevee altogether.

But, there are still great segments that introduce me to people, ideas and books I'd never hear about otherwise.

[Hidden Stillness]

38. "Takeover," Charlie Savage

This program was actually a segment of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" a few days ago, which I listened to and then tried to find rebroadcast, and could not--it was great; now it is shown again today. The author is a reporter with the Boston Globe, and if the book is written with the same tone--fast-paced, smart, with a lot of historical context and research, and a sense of urgency--then it should be worth reading; it is obviously important.

After the work of John Dean, for example, people are now familiar with the warnings about the expanded power and secrecy of the Bush (or Cheney) Presidency, and this book adds a lot more to that knowledge. It traces the balance of power between the three branches of Federal Government historically, the rise of the "Imperial Presidency"--Arthur Schlesinger's famous phrase--during and after World War I, the increasing abuse of the failure to get declarations of war from the Congress first, etc., to the present. Parallel to that, it traces the career and writings for the past 30+ years, of Dickshit Cheney, from the Ford Administration to the years as a Senator during the Reagan/Iran-Contra 1980s, etc., and finds a stunningly consistent extremism, that nowadays would be called "neo-con" or "criminal corporate conspiracy" but was always available to be studied. The author has also uncovered such seemingly illegal Bush-Cheney subversions of the independence of Federal Departments and agencies, as the placement of "liasons" at the head of everything, who would report to the White House before any programs would be carried out, undercutting and even replacing the actual head of each Department, which I had heard of before but which, incredibly, still goes on.

I got the impression from the program that there is a lot of information in the book, and that it is very well-researched and well-told. There are starting to be more books on this topic now that the house of cards is collapsing, but this seems to be a really good one.

[Kurovski]

41. It's always good to see you Hidden Stillness.

:hi:

Given all the information out there, it's a mystery to me why they remain "unimpeached". One day I'd like to read a book explaining how that came to be.

[EFerrari]

39. Kick

[Viva_La_Revolution]

40. kick!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

42. kick!

[Kurovski]

43. Are you going to post a Molly thread? Let me know so I can support it.

:kick:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

44. Thanks, I'm going to try.

:)

[Kurovski]

45. I'm signing off.

The thread will take off in it's own...as long as it's not posted at the last minute. *hint*hint*

I know, I know, I'm not the boss of you. :hug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

47. missed it

was busy playing with the grandbaby. :)

[Kurovski]

46. Molly Ivins on Reagan: "If you put his brain in a bee...

it would fly backwards."

Her Standard Poodle was named "Fanny Brice." I never knew she had a pet.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

49. Logan, Cutie-extrodinaire...

[Kurovski]

50. OMG! Is he as sweet-tempered as he looks?

Ootsy-wootzy-widdo-dewooty, Wogan!!! :D He's got such a baby head! :D

As a child, I was a horrifically annoying nuisance. So, tell us, is this one a widdie-angelbaby? Looks like it!

You know, you should bring him to meet-ups to keep you in line! :rofl:

Congrats, granny V!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

52. barely fusses...

so far. :)

No babies allowed at the party. It's grown-up time :evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

53. Oh...

you are a scary one sometimes.

[EFerrari]

51. And he's thinking

"Three moves to the cookie jar. . ."

:loveya:

[EFerrari]

48. Did anyone catch Randall Robinson's presentation re Haiti?

It was enough to break your heart and drive you into Canadian drag forever.