List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1992

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video)
Author Book Subject matter
January 5, 1992Charles HamiltonAdam Clayton Powell, Jr.Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
January 12, 1992August HeckscherWoodrow Wilson: A BiographyWoodrow Wilson
January 26, 1992Frederick DownsNo Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to VietnamThe Vietnam War
February 2, 1992Robert CwiklikHouse Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of WashingtonPeter Hoagland; The U.S. House of Representatives
February 9, 1992Francis FukuyamaThe End of History and the Last ManLiberal democracy; Sociocultural evolution
February 16, 1992Al GoreEarth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human SpiritEcology; Global Warming
February 23, 1992 and March 1, 1992Richard NixonSeize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower WorldForeign Policy of the United States
March 8, 1992Robert MassieDreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great WarHMS Dreadnought; Origins of World War I
March 22, 1992Linda ChavezOut of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic AssimilationHistory of Hispanic and Latino Americans
March 29, 1992Nan RobertsonThe Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York TimesThe New York Times
April 12, 1992Orlando PattersonFreedom in the Making of Western CulturePolitical freedom
April 19, 1992Paul HollanderAnti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990Anti-Americanism
April 26, 1992Tinsley YarbroughJohn Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren CourtJohn Marshall Harlan II
May 3, 1992Earl Black and Merle BlackThe Vital South: How Presidents Are ElectedSouthern strategy
May 5, 1992Robert ReminiHenry Clay: Statesman for the UnionHenry Clay
May 10, 1992David MooreThe Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in AmericaCategory:Opinion polling in the United States
May 17, 1992Robert BartleyThe Seven Fat Years and How to Do It AgainCategory:1980s economic history
May 31, 1992Lester ThurowHead to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and AmericaEconomy of Europe; Economy of Japan; Economy of the United States; Japan–United States relations
June 7, 1992R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.The Conservative Crack-UpConservatism in the United States
June 14, 1992William Lee MillerThe Business of May Next: James Madison and the FoundingJames Madison
June 21, 1992John JackleyHill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off CongressThe U.S. House of Representatives
June 28, 1992David SavageTurning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme CourtThe Rehnquist Court; List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court
July 5, 1992William RehnquistGrand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew JohnsonImpeachment in the United States; Samuel Chase; Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
July 12, 1992Jeffrey BellPopulism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of EqualityPopulism and Elitism
July 19, 1992David McCulloughTrumanHarry Truman
July 26, 1992Richard Ben CramerWhat It Takes: The Way to the White HouseUnited States presidential election, 1988
August 2, 1992Gilbert FiteRichard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from GeorgiaRichard Russell, Jr.
August 9, 1992Robert Donovan and Ray SchererUnsilent Revolution: Television News and American LifeTelevision news in the United States
August 16, 1992Martin AndersonImpostors in the TempleHigher education in the United States
August 23, 1992Mickey KausThe End of EqualitySocial equality
August 30, 1992Neil PostmanTechnopoly: The Surrender of Culture to TechnologyTechnology and society
September 6, 1992Terry EastlandEnergy in the Executive: The Case for a Strong PresidencyPresident of the United States
September 13, 1992James BillingtonRussia Transformed: Breakthrough to HopeRussia
September 20, 1992Sen. Paul SimonAdvice and Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination BattlesClarence Thomas; Robert Bork
September 27, 1992Walter IsaacsonKissinger: A BiographyHenry Kissinger
October 18, 1992George WillRestoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative DemocracyThe U.S. Congress; Term limits in the United States
October 25, 1992Susan FaludiBacklash: The Undeclared War Against American WomenFeminism in the United States
November 8, 1992Barbara Hinkley and Paul BraceFollow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern PresidentsCategory:Opinion polling in the United States
November 15, 1992Derrick BellFaces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of RacismRacism in the United States
November 22, 1992Gen. Norman SchwarzkopfIt Doesn't Take a HeroMemoir/Autobiography; United States Army; Gulf War
November 29, 1992Charles SykesA Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American CharacterVictim playing
December 6, 1992Daniel BoorstinThe CreatorsCultural history; Creativity; History of the concept of creativity
December 13, 1992Brian KellyAdventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won't StopPork barrel
December 20, 1992Eric AltermanSound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American PoliticsPolitical journalism; Pundits
December 27, 1992Michael MedvedHollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional ValuesCinema of the United States; Popular culture; Traditional values

References

  1. "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. 19 August 2004.
  2. Ellen Emry Heltzel (17 August 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian.
  3. Frank J. Prial (4 December 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
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