I adore the weekends because of BookTV.org (where, if you don’t get C-Span2, you can watch some of the videos and, I think you can watch too via C-SPAN (right?) … here’s the schedule for all the other nerds like me:
SATURDAY — rest of today — Watson’s is almost over — HE IS VERY GOOD — TRY TO CATCH HIM — and he’s going to do a new book on Sacco and Venzetti!
12:45 Bruce Watson, Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
2:00 Pamela Winnick, A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion
3:00 Book Club: “Flyboys” by James Bradley
4:45 Gareth Porter, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam
6:00 Lynne Cheney, A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America
7:00 Encore Booknotes: Howard Kurtz, Media Circus: The Trouble with America’s Newspapers
8:00 After Words: After Words: Fred Barnes interviewed by Peter Beinart
9:00 History on Book TV: Nell Irvin Painter, Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
10:00 General Assignment: Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo, Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander
11:00 Larry Beinhart, Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin
SUNDAY:
2:00 am General Assignment: Joe Scarborough, Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day: The Real Deal on How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Other Washington Barbarians are Bankrupting America
1:00 General Assignment: Jonathan Kaplan, Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon’s Education
2:00 James Hansen, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
3:00 History on Book TV: Book Club: “Flyboys” by James Bradley
4:45 Anita Wills, Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of an American Families History
6:00 Thomas Grooms, The Majesty of Capitol Hill
7:05 Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
8:30 Christopher Andrew, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World — Newly Revealed Secrets from The Mitrokhin Archive
9:15 Martin Kaiser III, Odyssey of an Eavesdropper: My Life in Electronic Countermeasures and My Battle Against the FBI
10:15 Larry Beinhart, Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin
11:00 Joe Scarborough, Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day: The Real Deal on How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Other Washington Barbarians are Bankrupting America
12:00 pm Public Lives: Richard Reeves, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination
2:00 Stephen Walt, Taming American Power: The Global Response of U.S. Primacy
3:00 After Words: Ambassador L. Paul Bremer interviewed by James Hoagland
4:00 General Assignment: Bernard-Henri Levy in discussion with William Kristol moderated by Francis Fukuyama, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
5:40 Margaret Creighton, “The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Hidden History”
6:00 After Words: After Words: Fred Barnes interviewed by Peter Beinart
7:00 Public Lives: Richard Reeves, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination
7:50 Richard Florida, The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
9:00 After Words: After Words: Fred Barnes interviewed by Peter Beinart
10:00 General Assignment: Bernard-Henri Levy in discussion with William Kristol moderated by Francis Fukuyama, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
11:45 Eve Ensler, 2005 Miami Book Fair: Eve Ensler “The Good Body”
MONDAY:
m Yossi Sheffi, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage
2:00 William Powers, Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa’s Fragile Edge
2:45 Louis Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show
4:00 A.N. Wilson, After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
5:00 Phil Scott, Hemingway’s Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935
5:45 Zainab Salbi, Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
6:30 Gary Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America