List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1992
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Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.{{cite news |title='Booknotes' Afterword |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=19 August 2004}} The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.{{cite news |title=Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens |author=Ellen Emry Heltzel |newspaper=The Sunday Oregonian |date=17 August 1997}} The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,{{cite news |title=After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run |author=Frank J. Prial |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 December 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/arts/television/04lamb.html |accessdate=4 November 2010}} and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.
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| width="100"|First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) | width="120"|Author | width="250"|Book | width="150"|Subject matter |
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| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?23633-1/book-discussion-adam-clayton-powell-jr-political-dilemma January 5, 1992] | Charles Hamilton | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |
| [http://www.c-span.org/person/?augustheckscher January 12, 1992] | August Heckscher | Woodrow Wilson: A Biography | Woodrow Wilson |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?23974-1/book-discussion-longer-enemies-yet-friends January 26, 1992] | Frederick Downs | No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam | The Vietnam War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?24125-1/book-discussion-house-rules February 2, 1992] | Robert Cwiklik | House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington | Peter Hoagland; The U.S. House of Representatives |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?24282-1/book-discussion-end-history-last-man February 9, 1992] | Francis Fukuyama | The End of History and the Last Man | Liberal democracy; Sociocultural evolution |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?24448-1/book-discussion-earth-balance-ecology-human February 16, 1992] | Al Gore | Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit | Ecology; Global Warming |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?24604-1/seize-moment-part-1 February 23, 1992] and [http://www.c-span.org/video/?24737-1/seize-moment-part-2 March 1, 1992] | Richard Nixon | Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World | Foreign Policy of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?24896-1/book-discussion-dreadnought-britain-germany-war March 8, 1992] | Robert Massie | Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War | HMS Dreadnought; Origins of World War I |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25129-1/book-discussion-barrio March 22, 1992] | Linda Chavez | Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation | History of Hispanic and Latino Americans |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25258-1/book-discussion-girls-balcony March 29, 1992] | Nan Robertson | The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times | The New York Times |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25534-1/book-discussion-freedom-making-western-culture April 12, 1992] | Orlando Patterson | Freedom in the Making of Western Culture | Political freedom |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25679-1/book-discussion-antiamericanism-home-abroad April 19, 1992] | Paul Hollander | Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990 | Anti-Americanism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25755-1/book-discussion-john-marshall-great-dissenter April 26, 1992] | Tinsley Yarbrough | John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court | John Marshall Harlan II |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25857-1/book-discussion-vital-south-presidents-elected May 3, 1992] | Earl Black and Merle Black | The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected | Southern strategy |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25368-1/book-discussion-henry-clay-statesman-union May 5, 1992] | Robert Remini | Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union | Henry Clay |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?25989-1/book-discussion-superpollsters May 10, 1992] | David Moore | The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America | :Category:Opinion polling in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26100-1/book-discussion-seven-fat-years May 17, 1992] | Robert Bartley | The Seven Fat Years and How to Do It Again | :Category:1980s in economic history |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26325-1/book-discussion-head-head-coming-economic-battle May 31, 1992] | Lester Thurow | Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America | Economy of Europe; Economy of Japan; Economy of the United States; Japan–United States relations |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26463-1/book-discussion-conservative-crackup June 7, 1992] | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. | The Conservative Crack-Up | Conservatism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26572-1/book-discussion-business-may-next-james-madison June 14, 1992] | William Lee Miller | The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding | James Madison |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26692-1/book-discussion-hill-rat-blowing-lid-congress June 21, 1992] | John Jackley | Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress | The U.S. House of Representatives |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26799-1/book-discussion-turning-right-rehnquist-supreme-court June 28, 1992] | David Savage | Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court | The Rehnquist Court; List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26896-1/book-discussion-grand-inquests-historic-impeachments July 5, 1992] | William Rehnquist | Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson | Federal impeachment in the United States; Samuel Chase; Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?26997-1/book-discussion-populism-elitism July 12, 1992] | Jeffrey Bell | Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality | Populism and Elitism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?27217-1/book-discussion-truman July 19, 1992] | David McCullough | Truman | Harry Truman |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?27376-1/book-discussion-takes-way-white-house July 26, 1992] | Richard Ben Cramer | What It Takes: The Way to the White House | 1988 United States presidential election |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?30441-1/book-discussion-richard-b-russell-jr August 2, 1992] | Gilbert Fite | Richard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from Georgia | Richard Russell Jr. |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?30839-1/book-discussion-unsilent-revolution-television-news August 9, 1992] | Robert Donovan and Ray Scherer | Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Life | Television news in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?31211-1/book-discussion-impostors-temple August 16, 1992] | Martin Anderson | Impostors in the Temple | Higher education in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?31491-1/book-discussion-end-equality August 23, 1992] | Mickey Kaus | The End of Equality | Social equality |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?31627-1/book-discussion-technopoly August 30, 1992] | Neil Postman | Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology | Technology and society |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?31965-1/book-discussion-energy-executive September 6, 1992] | Terry Eastland | Energy in the Executive: The Case for a Strong Presidency | President of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?32291-1/book-discussion-russia-transformed-breakthrough-hope September 13, 1992] | James Billington | Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope | Russia |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?32597-1/book-discussion-advice-consent September 20, 1992] | Sen. Paul Simon | Advice and Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles | Clarence Thomas; Robert Bork |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?32833-1/book-discussion-kissinger-biography September 27, 1992] | Walter Isaacson | Kissinger: A Biography | Henry Kissinger |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?33238-1/book-discussion-restoration October 18, 1992] | George Will | Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy | The U.S. Congress; Term limits in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?33591-1/book-discussion-backlash October 25, 1992] | Susan Faludi | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women | Feminism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?34276-1/book-discussion-follow-leader November 8, 1992] | Barbara Hinkley and Paul Brace | Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents | :Category:Opinion polling in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?34630-1/book-discussion-faces-bottom-well November 15, 1992] | Derrick Bell | Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism | Racism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?35014-1/book-discussion-doesnt-take-hero November 22, 1992] | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | It Doesn't Take a Hero | Memoir/Autobiography; United States Army; Gulf War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?35197-1/book-discussion-nation-victims November 29, 1992] | Charles Sykes | A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character | Victim playing |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?35544-1/book-discussion-creators December 6, 1992] | Daniel Boorstin | The Creators | Cultural history; Creativity; History of the concept of creativity |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?36020-1/book-discussion-adventures-porkland December 13, 1992] | Brian Kelly | Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won't Stop | Pork barrel |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?36343-1/book-discussion-sound-fury December 20, 1992] | Eric Alterman | Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics | Political journalism; Pundits |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?36670-1/book-discussion-hollywood-vs-america December 27, 1992] | Michael Medved | Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values | Cinema of the United States; Popular culture; Traditional values |