Book TV Schedule May 31st - June 2nd

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: May 31 - June 2
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET
Author and Catholic theologian George Weigel joins us for In Depth this Sunday. Mr. Weigel is the author of over a dozen books, including Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, Freedom and Its Discontents: Catholicism Confronts Modernity, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, and God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church. Mr. Weigel is currently a distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a contributor to Newsweek magazine and Vatican analyst for NBC News.

You can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program:
East/Central Time Zone, 202-737-0001,
Mountain/Pacific Time Zone, 202-737-0002,
or by e-mailing your questions to [e-mail].



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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM,
Monday 12 AM and 3 AM ET
Mary Tillman, mother of Pat Tillman, talks about her son's death in Afghanistan and the cover-up that surrounded it. Originally told that her son was killed in an ambush, and then later informed that he was killed while chasing enemy forces, Mary Tillman eventually found out that Pat Tillman was killed by "friendly fire," shot in the head three times by U.S. troops. In her book, Ms. Tillman discusses how she came to learn the truth about her son's death and describes her efforts to find out why it was originally covered up. She is interviewed by Tony Capaccio, Pentagon correspondent for Bloomberg News.



Weekend Highlights
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Jerry Newcombe, How Would Jesus Vote? A Christian Perspective on the Issues
In their book, co-authors Jerry Newcombe and the late Dr. D. James Kennedy offer their Christian perspectives on issues in the 2008 presidential election. They discuss abortion, the death penalty, war, education and the freedom of religion. This event was hosted by the South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary in Deerfield Beach, FL.
(Sunday 9 AM and 7 PM, Monday 4 AM ET)

Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi talks about his grandfather, Mohandas K. Gandhi, at an event held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. During the event, Prof. Gandhi reads selections from his book and answers questions from audience members.
(Saturday 8 PM ET)

Thomas Friedman, 2008 BookExpo America: Keynote Address
Author and columnist Thomas Friedman delivers the keynote address from BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Friedman is the author of the soon to be published Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America. BookExpo America is an annual trade show for the publishing industry that includes author events, educational panels, and information on soon to be published books.
(Saturday 11 PM ET)




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


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Saturday, May 31, 2008
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8:00 AM 40 min The Story of Science
Author: Joy Hakim

8:45 AM 37 min History
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secrets
Author: Seth Shulman

9:20 AM 7 min 2008 CPAC: Richard Viguerie, "Conservatives Betrayed: : How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause"
Author: Richard Viguerie

9:30 AM 1 hr, 15 min History
Heroes, Hacks & Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside
Author: Ted Van Dyk

10:40 AM 13 min 2008 CPAC: Dinesh D'Souza: "What's So Great About Christianity"
Author: Dinesh D'Souza

11:00 AM 59 min Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Author: Sudhir Venkatesh

12:00 PM 1 hr, 43 min Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Author: Scott Casper

1:45 PM 30 min History
The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur - Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary
Author: Nancy Kriplen

2:15 PM 1 hr, 20 min History
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
Author: Charles Cobb

3:30 PM 9 min 2008 CPAC: Marcus Luttrell, "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10"
Author: Marcus Luttrell

3:45 PM 1 hr, 11 min History
Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Author: Edward Renehan, Jr.

5:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min Panel Discussion- The Historical Context of Allan Bloom
Author: Allan Bloom

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes
Personal History
Author: Katharine Graham

7:00 PM 1 hr, 5 min History
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Author: Edward Larson

8:00 PM 53 min Public Lives
Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi

9:00 PM 45 min You Want Fries With That? A White-Collar Burnout Experiences Life At Minimum Wage
Author: Prioleau Alexander

9:40 PM 6 min 2008 CPAC: Jed Babbin, "In the Words of Our Enemies"
Author: Jed Babbin

10:00 PM 59 min After Words: Mary Tillman, "Boots on the Ground By Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman" interviewed by Tony Capaccio

11:00 PM 1 hr Politics
2008 BookExpo America: Keynote Address by Thomas Friedman
Author: Thomas Friedman



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Sunday, June 1, 2008
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12:00 AM 54 min Politics
Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate
Author: Arlen Specter

12:50 AM 4 min Book TV Bus - Aidan Delgado, Author, "The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector"
Author: Aidan Delgado

1:00 AM 1 hr, 13 min The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Author: Richard Thompson Ford

2:10 AM 14 min 2008 CPAC: Gregg Jackson "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z"
Author: Gregg Jackson

2:30 AM 1 hr, 20 min History
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
Author: Charles Cobb

4:00 AM 55 min Politics
Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire

5:00 AM 41 min Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles In Backroom Power
Authors: John Harwood; Gerald Seib

6:00 AM 1 hr, 59 min Gay Marriage: Why It's Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
Author: Rauch, Jonathan

8:00 AM 56 min Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story
Author: Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (Ret.)

9:00 AM 1 hr, 29 min Politics
How Would Jesus Vote? A Christian Perspective on the Issues
Author: Jerry Newcombe

10:30 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

11:45 AM 9 min Al Regnery Library Tour
Author: Alfred Regnery

12:00 PM 3 hr In Depth: George Weigel

3:00 PM 45 min Politics
Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries
Author: Michael Kinsley

4:00 PM 45 min You Want Fries With That? A White-Collar Burnout Experiences Life At Minimum Wage
Author: Prioleau Alexander

5:00 PM 49 min Politics
Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice
Author: Eric Lichtblau

6:00 PM 59 min After Words: Mary Tillman, "Boots on the Ground By Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman" interviewed by Tony Capaccio

7:00 PM 1 hr, 29 min Politics
How Would Jesus Vote? A Christian Perspective on the Issues
Author: Jerry Newcombe

8:30 PM 23 min LIVE Calls with Susan Wicklund author of "This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor"
Author: Susan Wicklund

9:00 PM 59 min After Words: Mary Tillman, "Boots on the Ground By Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman" interviewed by Tony Capaccio

10:00 PM 2 hr 2008 BookExpo America: Author panel with Michael Moore, "Yet to titled book," Jon Krakauer, "The Hero," Richard Engel, "War Journal," Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, "Taking on the System" and Christopher Buckley, "Supreme Courtship"
Authors: Christopher Buckley; Richard Engel; Jon Krakauer; Michael Moore; Markos Moulitsas Zuniga


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Monday, June 2, 2008
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12:00 AM 3 hr In Depth: George Weigel

3:00 AM 59 min After Words: Mary Tillman, "Boots on the Ground By Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman" interviewed by Tony Capaccio

4:00 AM 1 hr, 29 min Politics
How Would Jesus Vote? A Christian Perspective on the Issues
Author: Jerry Newcombe

5:30 AM 45 min Politics
Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries
Author: Michael Kinsley

6:15 AM 37 min Politics
FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
Authors: Neal Boortz; Rep. John Linder

6:50 AM 5 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Lawrence Malley
Author: Lawrence Malley

7:00 AM 59 min 2008 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Defining American Character
Author: 2008 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

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

[Bozita]

1. Thank you, Viva.

A bunch of good choices this weekend.

[EFerrari]

2. Thanks, Vivala!

:hi:

:kick:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Kick!

[Bozita]

4. kick

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Thanks Boz!

[Bozita]

5. kick

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. Darn darn darn darn

Missed this yesterday, too late to rec now :(

So i give keek :)

Viva :hi: :hug: :loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. ...

:loveya:

[EFerrari]

8. I have to share this. This morning, the founder and Editor at Large

of Public Affairs Books (who recently published Scotty's opus) referred to himself as "a greasy eminence".

He looked pretty clean to me!

:rofl:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. I saw that too...

One of the few things I've caught this weekend... I'm FINALLY getting the garden in, no time for the teevee... :)

[EFerrari]

16. Good for you! I went out on the deck for the first time since

my ten foot depression hit and, the roses are alive but that's about it. It looks like the container garden in a horror movie! Maybe I can get back out there again and at least bury the dead.

[Bozita]

10. *unscheduled* -- Scott McClellan is on now

[EFerrari]

13. They've had Scott on abou 25 times this weekend. n/t

[Bozita]

14. Michael Moore is supposed to be on now.

He must have been really something if they're pre-empting him with Scottie ratting out Bushco.

on edit:

The Scottie piece is done. They're filling in the balance of the time with ... Arlen Specter.

I tuned in for Moore and ended up with Arlen Specter.

[EFerrari]

15. This is a weird weekend for teevee.

None of my Brit comedies are on and I'm listening to Arlen Specter doing stand up. :dunce:

[Bozita]

18. I've moved over to my local teevee news. Gotta get the gross receipts for movies.

The station advertises themselves as dispensing "news you can use."

If I were smart enough, I could figure out how to use such major news to my advantage.

*sigh*

No such luck.

[Greyhound]

11. Hey you. get yer phone from the kid & call me. K & R

:kick: & R

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. ck yer messages.

:)

[Hidden Stillness]

17. "This Common Secret," Susan Wicklund; Call-In

This was a replay of a half-hour call-in segment that was part of a book festival a little while ago. The author, Susan Wicklund, is an abortion doctor, the term she freely uses as part of a larger attempt to openly use the language, not be intimidated, and make the procedure as normal as it actually is in life.

The author said that some 40% of women will get an abortion during her life, although I don't know if that figure was an average. The beginning of the program mentioned some facts about abortion availability, such as that most doctors only do first-trimester abortions, and that is when most women seek them, that most insurance does not cover abortion services, although some do, and that abortions are becoming harder to get, with doctors closing down, refusing to do them or not being taught anymore at all--because of the general threat against them--and the sometime increasing restriction of the law. "Most women have abortions because they want to be good mothers," she said, because they do not have the resources to take care of a child at that time, are not emotionally ready, and they have realized it would be a disaster to go forward then. There was a little bit of a discussion on the grim threat abortion providers face, and the author mentioned that the violent, hysterical harassers they called "protesters" are still violating and scaring people at clinics, although most people might have assumed that they had been handled and done away with years ago. The author, as an abortion doctor, sometimes still wears a bullet-proof vest and a gun. God protect her.

There were calls taken from audience members, I think all were women, and it was split between the good feminist types who knew the value of the doctor, and the bravery that it took, and who thanked her, and on the other hand a few callers of the "Don't you feel guilty and know you are going to damnation?" ilk. I am as religious as anyone else on DU, but I know what a load of shit that is. I support abortions because I am a feminist, and want abortions, other birth control, and education in an egalitarian society. I don't relate it to religion at all, and am unimpressed with anti-feminist claims that anyone got it "from the Bible," where there are no references one way or the other on abortion.

At one poin the conversation turned more personal, and the doctor told how the long hours every day, of constant travel and work, "wreaked havoc" on her marriage, and then told a very moving story of her grandmother's response when she told her, years ago, that she was going to become an abortion doctor. Her grandmother told her a story: when they were kids, and abortion illegal, a friend of hers and her sister's had become pregnant, probably by incest, and they all decided to induce an abortion by poking hard inside her vagina to make her bleed heavily and destroy the pregnancy. Everything went wrong, and their young friend bled to death. She told her granddaughter that she had always felt like a murderer, and was so happy that she would now provide safe, legal, available abortions that the grandmother and her generation could never have had. (It reminded me of the horrible, famous picture of the woman from about 1943 I think it was, dead on the floor, bleeding, from a botched, illegal abortion. There are other victims, you know--like the woman!) It gave truth to the caller who said of her own abortion, "It saved my life," as she needed it for medical reasons.

The same caller expressed the fear and outraged moral conscience of a patient at a clinic who had had to put up with anti-abortion protesters and their yelling taunts. The caller said of the "protesters," "nobody has a right to be in the way of a person trying to get into a clinic," I think was the quote, with their painful, accusatory, stressful "rhetoric."

The author was going to write the book, then, because it was an era of many murders of abortion doctors, and a lot of threat, she waited for years, to this era, when it is somewhat better. I know this is a very sensitive topic that has to be handled carefully, because anti-abortion terrorists are so violent, demonic, raging. It makes me think of an old Phil Donahue program from the early 1990s I think it was, or late '80s; the great morning syndicated Phil Donahue, not that MSNBC corporate-interference. The topic was abortion, with a panel, and there were calls about people who knew they needed abortions for many reasons and were so glad they were able to get them, a woman who called in about a family member who "didn't believe in abortion," had a child, then abused it and ended up murdering the child, the whole audience was on the side of the women and the abortion doctors, and against the anti-abortion group, etc. I thought everything had gone really well, many great points made, the clear popularity of the feminist position was shown, all the rest. The next thing I knew, just after this program, one of the guests, Paul something or other, a rabid anti-abortion type, was arrested for murdering Dr. Gunn in Florida, an abortion doctor, who was described as a feminist, a warm, kind person, etc. The worst horror, after I thought the program went great.

These people are wonderful servants of patients who need them, and of a cause we all need. She was wonderful on this program, very calm and wise, and answered all callers with respect and care. No modern democracy can survive, and not understand the need to provide safe, legal, available abortion services to its citizens; it is a cornerstone of feminist understanding of the way the world is. She is a hero.