BookTV Schedule: May 24th - 27th (3 days!)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: May 24-27
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 12 PM, 6 PM and 9 PM, Monday 12 AM ET
Matt Taibbi, contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, explores the political landscape of post-9/11 America in The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire. Mr. Taibbi presents his thoughts on the war in Iraq, the machinations of Congress, the 9/11 truth movement and his time as a chruchgoer. Matt Taibbi discusses his book with David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine. Following the taping of After Words, Matt Taibbi and David Corn took questions from the audience at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC.



Weekend Highlights - Three days of Book TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Join us for three days of Book TV programming this holiday weekend, beginning Saturday, May 24, at 8 AM ET and running through Tuesday, May 27, at 8 AM ET.
We will also bring you Book TV in prime time during the week from May 27 - May 30, while Congress is out of session.

Oliver North, In the Fight against Radical Islam
Oliver North talks about the US troops that are fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines. He spoke at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California.
(Sunday 7:30 PM, Monday 1:30 AM ET)

William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary
Former presidential speechwriter and political columnist William Safire presents his updated political dictionary. Originally published in 1968, Mr. Safire examines political language, defining such words as "axis of evil," "Rumsfeld's Rules," and "red/blue state." Mr. Safire discussed his book on the syndicated radio show, The Book Guys.
(Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 1 AM, 9 AM and 3 PM ET)

Alice Walker
Alice Walker joined us for In Depth from her home in Berkeley, California. Ms. Walker is the author of over twenty-five books, including The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Living by the Word,Warrior, In Search of our Mother's Gardens, and The Color Purple which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award in 1983.
(Monday 8:30 PM ET)



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

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

8:00 AM 35 min One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation
Author: Liz Clarke

8:30 AM 1 hr, 9 min History
Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism
Author: William Link

10:00 AM 44 min Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow
Author: Jim Hightower

11:00 AM 1 hr, 20 min Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World
Author: Gary Hirshberg

12:30 PM 1 hr, 14 min History
Causes Won, Lost, & Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War
Author: Gary Gallagher

2:00 PM 1 hr, 9 min Days of Infamy
Authors: William Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

3:30 PM 57 min History
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union
Authors: Paul Kendrick; Stephen Kendrick

4:30 PM 1 hr, 20 min History
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
Author: Charles Cobb

6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes: "In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade"
Author: Robin Wright

7:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Author: Margaret MacMillan

8:00 PM 57 min Politics
Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight!: How Progressives Can Win
Author: Robert Creamer

9:00 PM 55 min Politics
Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire

10:00 PM 1 hr, 19 min After Words: Matt Taibbi author of "The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire" interviewed by David Corn,Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine

11:30 PM 1 hr, 20 min Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World
Author: Gary Hirshberg



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Sunday, May 25, 2008

1:00 AM 55 min Politics
Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire

2:00 AM 57 min Politics
Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight!: How Progressives Can Win
Author: Robert Creamer

3:00 AM 1 hr, 3 min The Devil's Delusion: Atheism And Its Scientific Pretensions
Author: David Berlinski

4:00 AM 2 hr, 2 min History
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
Author: Anna Porter

6:00 AM 1 hr, 37 min Politics
Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11
Author: David Horowitz

7:45 AM 1 hr, 19 min Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Author: Jim Sheeler

9:00 AM 55 min Politics
Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire

10:00 AM 1 hr, 16 min The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Author: Parag Khanna

11:15 AM 45 min Public Lives
Nancy: A Portrait of My Years with Nancy Reagan
Author: Michael Deaver

12:00 PM 58 min After Words: "Ladies of Liberty" by Cokie Roberts, interviewed by Pat Schroeder

1:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
The Downing Street Years
Author: Margaret Thatcher

2:00 PM 1 hr The Stem Cell Dilemma: Beacons of Hope or Harbingers of Doom?
Authors: Leo Furcht; William Hoffman

3:00 PM 55 min Politics
Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire

4:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min An Easy Out: Corporate America's Addiction to Outsourcing
Author: Jack Buffington

5:30 PM 31 min Ronald Reagan: An American Hero
Author: Nancy Reagan

6:00 PM 1 hr, 19 min After Words: Matt Taibbi author of "The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire" interviewed by David Corn,Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine

7:30 PM 1 hr, 2 min American Heroes: In the Fight against Radical Islam
Author: Oliver North

9:00 PM 1 hr, 19 min After Words: Matt Taibbi author of "The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire" interviewed by David Corn,Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine

10:30 PM 1 hr, 16 min An Easy Out: Corporate America's Addiction to Outsourcing
Author: Jack Buffington



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Monday, May 26, 2008

12:00 AM 1 hr, 19 min After Words: Matt Taibbi author of "The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire" interviewed by David Corn,Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine

1:30 AM 1 hr, 2 min American Heroes: In the Fight against Radical Islam
Author: Oliver North

3:00 AM 1 hr, 19 min Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Author: Jim Sheeler

4:15 AM 1 hr, 3 min Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity
Author: David Limbaugh

5:30 AM 1 hr, 33 min Public Lives
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
Author: Mariane Pearl

7:00 AM 1 hr, 7 min A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life
Author: J. Craig Venter

8:30 AM 2 hr, 29 min History
Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
Authors: Peter Schuck; James Wilson

11:00 AM 1 hr, 50 min U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Panel: American Civil-Military Relations
Author: Dale Herspring et al.

1:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min Politics
Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress
Author: Patrick Murphy

2:30 PM 1 hr, 19 min Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Author: Jim Sheeler

3:45 PM 1 hr, 9 min Days of Infamy
Authors: William Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

5:00 PM 58 min Politics
Pure Goldwater
Author: Barry Goldwater, Jr. and John Dean

6:00 PM 35 min History
Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House
Author: Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson

6:30 PM 36 min History
1776
Author: David McCullough

7:00 PM 55 min Politics
The Revolution: A Manifesto
Author: Ron Paul

8:30 PM 2 hr, 51 min In Depth: Alice Walker
11:30 PM 1 hr, 13 min EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World
Author: Mark Skousen



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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

12:45 AM 40 min Holding Her Head High: 12 Single Mothers Who Championed Their Children and Changed History
Author: Janine Turner

1:30 AM 44 min 2007 National Book Festival: World War II Veterans discuss "The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945"
Authors: Ward Chamberlin; Joseph Vaghi; Tom Wiener

2:15 AM 59 min Who's Your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
Author: Richard Florida

3:15 AM 49 min Politics
The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud
Author: Lawrence Solomon

4:00 AM 35 min One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation
Author: Liz Clarke

4:45 AM 1 hr, 29 min Politics
Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
Author: Grover Norquist

6:15 AM 37 min Public Lives
Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times and Rise to Power
Author: Marc Sandalow

7:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Author: Michael Pollan


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

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"The Capitol"
Two-Hour Feature Documentary Memorial Day Weekend on C-SPAN A Special Programming Alert for our Book TV Viewers
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The Capitol Memorial Day Weekend on C-SPAN
Sunday, May 25: 9 pm ET
Monday, May 26: 3, 8 and 11 pm ET

Join us on C-SPAN over the Memorial Day weekend for a special presentation of our feature documentary The Capitol -- exploring the history, art, and architecture of the U.S. Capitol from its opening in 1800 through today. From its grand public spaces to those places where tourists cannot go, the program captures the beauty and history of this iconic building through a combination of tours and personal stories about the Capitol from members of Congress, historians, and curators.

Granted unique and unprecedented access to its spaces inside, C-SPAN's The Capitol is the only full-length television documentary ever done on this historic structure that is home to the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

Videotaped in high-definition, this special two-hour version of The Capitol, originally produced for Video On Demand viewing, is airing on the C-SPAN networks for the first time ever.

For more information on this program, as well as other resources on the history of the U.S. Capitol, visit our website www.the-capitol.org.


This week's theme... Viva's favorites :)



Francisco deQuevedo

[Bozita]

1. Thank you, Viva.

Happy Memorial Day!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. Thanks for the heads up.

I'll have to catch the show with Matt Taibbi. He's hilarious. I should program the VCR now.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Thanks Boz

:hi:

[Hidden Stillness]

4. "Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten," Gary Gallagher

This was a really good program, and fun to listen to. It was given by Gary Gallagher, a Professor at the University of Virginia I think, and Civil War scholar, before a library audience in California. (This Gary Gallagher is really good, very intelligent and perceptive, funny, and easy to listen to. I remember a long C-SPAN program a few years ago, it might have been one of those "In Depth" things, with call-in, on the Civil War, battlefield tour video clips, etc., really good.)

This program was on the Hollywood movie treatment of the Civil War, (usually ignorant, wrong, trashy, etc., of course), and the earlier issue of the four usual approaches to telling the meaning of the Civil War: 1) the Union, the saving of the great democracy, fighting to preserve our Nation and Constitution as the Founders intended; 2) the Lost Cause, the noble fighting and tragic loss to the South of what they had known, a war they could never have won, but which they gave their lives to; 3) Reconciliation, the goodness and bravery of soldiers on both sides of the conflict, and how we are all Americans again after the War; 4) Emancipation, the freeing of the slaves and the emergence of America as the true promise that it always claimed but never before gave.

Many movies were referred to, and how they shaped the story of the "Civil War era" according to social opinion, and things that were going on, at the time of the making of the movie, not as according to real Civil War era thought. The Union cause has almost completely vanished as a telling of the story, where that was the single most important cause impelling Northerners to join the war at the time (and for a couple of generations more), and the freeing-the-slaves narrative as the sole meaning, now just about the only way it is told, is a very modern, post Civil Rights era, telling. The odd thing, disturbing to me, is the way Union soldiers themselves have become so villified, characatured as crude, violent, with no real ethics or ideals. It doesn't make any sense that as the Union cause becomes the norm, the soldiers have become so hated; like a part of a modern "anti-war" sentiment.

This seems like a really well-researched book, yet again from Gary Gallagher, and the C-SPAN program was a lot of fun, interesting, and informative. Hollywood really does not care anymore, and only did periodically before (Douglass Fairbanks, Sr. was always historically accurate, for example).

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. Thanks!

I would have probably skipped right over it, if not for you. :)

[EFerrari]

11. I loved the way he combined history and film critique.

He was great. :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Kick!

Rembrant

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Punt

K&R :hi: Viva :hug: :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. SCE...

1867

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Nudda kick and a miss ya Dr. K.

And hugs by the bushel for you Viva :hug: :hug: :hug: :loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Kick!

[EFerrari]

10. Thanks, Viva!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. Thank you!

:)

[EFerrari]

14. Kick