List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1993
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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/?36768-1/book-discussion-thurgood-marshall January 3, 1993] | Michael Davis and Hunter Clark | Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench | Thurgood Marshall |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?36906-1/book-discussion-lobbyists January 10, 1993] | Jeffrey Birnbaum | The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington | Lobbying in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?37209-1/book-discussion-clinton-portrait-victory January 17, 1993] | P.F. Bentley | Clinton: Portrait of Victory | Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992 |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?37708-1/book-discussion-mortal-presidency January 24, 1993] | Robert Gilbert | The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House | Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness; Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Health of Ronald Reagan |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?37701-1/book-discussion-license-steal January 31, 1993] | Benjamin Stein | A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation | Michael Milken |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?37770-1/book-discussion-terror-night February 7, 1993] | Jack Nelson | Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews | The Ku Klux Klan |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?37981-1/book-discussion-theodore-roosevelt-life February 14, 1993] | Nathan Miller | Theodore Roosevelt: A Life | Theodore Roosevelt |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?38239-1/book-discussion-patriarch-george-washington-new-american-nation February 21, 1993] | Richard Norton Smith | Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation | George Washington |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?38281-1/book-discussion-little-light-mine February 28, 1993] | Kay Mills | This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer | Fannie Lou Hamer |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?38530-1/book-discussion-serbs-croats March 6, 1993] | Alex Dragnich | Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia | Serbs; Croats; Yugoslavia |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?38742-1/book-discussion-preparing-21st-century March 13, 1993] | Paul Kennedy | Preparing for the Twenty-First Century | 21st century |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?38911-1/book-discussion-promise-power March 21, 1993] | Deborah Shapley | Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara | Robert McNamara |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?39134-1/book-discussion-martyrs-day-chronicle-small-war March 28, 1993] | Michael Kelly | Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War | Gulf War; 20th century history of Iraq |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?39360-1/book-discussion-strom-thurmond-politics-southern-change April 4, 1993] | Nadine Cohodas | Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change | Strom Thurmond |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?39579-1/book-discussion-eleanor-roosevelt April 11, 1993] | Blanche Wiesen Cook | Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933 | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?39818-1/book-discussion-majic-bus-american-odyssey April 18, 1993] | Douglas Brinkley | The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey | History of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?40065-1/book-discussion-first-harm April 25, 1993] | Lisa Belkin | First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital | Hermann Hospital; Medical ethics |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?40390-1/book-discussion-sword-san-jacinto-life-sam-houston May 2, 1993] | Marshall DeBruhl | Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston | Sam Houston |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?40556-1/book-discussion-good-evil-impact-taxes May 9, 1993] | Charles Adams | For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization | :Category:History of taxation |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?40730-1/book-discussion-thinking-loud May 16, 1993] | Anna Quindlen | Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?40763-1/book-discussion-passionate-attachment May 23, 1993] | George Ball | The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present | Israel–United States relations |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?41609-1/book-discussion-five-myths-television-power May 30, 1993] | Douglas Davis | The Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the Message | Television in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/person/?jbell June 6, 1993] | J. Bowyer Bell | The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992 | The Troubles |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?43009-1/book-discussion-real-anita-hill June 13, 1993] | David Brock | The Real Anita Hill | Anita Hill |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?43516-1/book-discussion-media-circus-trouble-americas-newspapers June 20, 1993] | Howard Kurtz | Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers | Newspapers in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?44051-1/book-discussion-turmoil-triumph June 27, 1993] | George Shultz | Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State | Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; United States Secretary of State |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?44365-1/book-discussion-oxford-companion-politics July 4, 1993] | Joel Krieger | The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World | International relations |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?46582-1/book-discussion-fifties July 11, 1993] | David Halberstam | The Fifties | United States in the 1950s |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?47389-1/book-discussion-woman-war July 18, 1993] | Molly Moore | A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines | Memoir/Autobiography; United States Marine Corps; Gulf War; War journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?46467-1/book-discussion-lenins-tomb-last-days-soviet-empire July 25, 1993] | David Remnick | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?47330-1/book-discussion-hard-way August 1, 1993] | Alexander Brook and Warren H. Phillips | The Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor | Newspapers; Kennebunk, Maine |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?48269-1/book-discussion-strange-bedfellows August 8, 1993] | Tom Rosenstiel | Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992 | 1992 United States presidential election; ABC News |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?48693-1/book-discussion-wish-kings August 15, 1993] | Lewis Lapham | The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay | Federal government of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?49145-1/book-discussion-lincolndouglas-debates August 22, 1993] | Harold Holzer | The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | The Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?49562-1/book-discussion-giap-victor-vietnam August 29, 1993] | Peter Macdonald | Giap: The Victor in Vietnam | General Võ Nguyên Giáp |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?49975-1/joseph-ellis-john-adams September 5, 1993] | Joseph Ellis | Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams | John Adams |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?50306-1/book-discussion-inside-fbi September 12, 1993] | Ronald Kessler | The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency | The Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?50545-1/book-discussion-children September 19, 1993] | Madeline Cartwright | For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public School | School District of Philadelphia; Public education in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?50825-1/book-discussion-red-socks-muddy-boots September 26, 1993] | Malcolm Browne | Muddy Boots and Red Socks | Memoir/Autobiography; War journalism; Vietnam War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?51082-1/book-discussion-mexicanamericans-ambivalent-minority October 3, 1993] | Peter Skerry | Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority | Mexican Americans |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?51360-1/book-discussion-unfinished-nation-concise-history October 10, 1993] | Alan Brinkley | The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People | The History of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?51559-1/book-discussion-sake-argument October 17, 1993] | Christopher Hitchens | For the Sake of Argument | Christopher Hitchens's political views |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?51801-1/book-discussion-happy-days October 24, 1993] | William F. Buckley Jr. | Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist | Memoir/Autobiography; The National Review; Firing Line |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?51949-1/book-discussion-birth-freedom October 31, 1993] | Andrew Nagorski | The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe | Eastern Europe |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?52150-1/book-discussion-playing-god-seven-fateful-moments November 7, 1993] | Charles Mee | Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World | Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun; Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France; Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II; Congress of Vienna; Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Yalta Conference; G7 |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?52323-1/book-discussion-herblock-cartoonists-life November 14, 1993] | Herbert Block | Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life | Memoir/Autobiography; Editorial cartoons |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?52571-1/book-discussion-fountain-age November 28, 1993] | Betty Friedan | The Fountain of Age | Ageing |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?52741-1/book-discussion-downing-street-years December 5, 1993] | Margaret Thatcher | The Downing Street Years | Memoir/Autobiography; Premiership of Margaret Thatcher |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?52460-1/book-discussion-president-kennedy-profile-power December 12, 1993] | Richard Reeves | President Kennedy: Profile of Power | John F. Kennedy |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?53222-1/book-discussion-hell-ride-backstage-white-house December 19, 1993] | John Podhoretz | Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993 | Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of George H.W. Bush |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?53348-1/book-discussion-thomas-jefferson-life December 26, 1993] | Willard Sterne Randall | Thomas Jefferson: A Life | Thomas Jefferson |