List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1994
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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/?53447-1/book-discussion-web-du-bois-biography-race January 2, 1994] | David Levering Lewis | W. E. B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 | W. E. B. Du Bois |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?53631-1/book-discussion-book-virtues January 9, 1994] | William Bennett | The Book of Virtues | Virtue |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?53808-1/book-discussion-perot-people January 16, 1994] | Carolyn Barta | Perot and His People: Disrupting the Balance of Political Power | Ross Perot; The Reform Party |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?53975-1/book-discussion-politics-local January 23, 1994] | Gary Hymel and Tip O'Neill | All Politics is Local and other Rules of the Game | Memoir/Autobiography; The U.S. House of Representatives; Politics of Massachusetts |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?54179-1/book-discussion-never-stop-running-allard-lowenstein January 30, 1994] | William Chafe | Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism | Allard Lowenstein |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?54339-1/book-discussion-disraeli-biography February 6, 1994] | Stanley Weintraub | Disraeli: A Biography | Benjamin Disraeli |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?54538-1/book-discussion-japanophobia February 13, 1994] | Bill Emmott | Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese | Economy of Japan; Anti-Japanese sentiment |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?54712-1/book-discussion-live-battlefield February 20, 1994] | Peter Arnett | Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 years in the World's War Zones | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; The Vietnam War; The Gulf War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?54899-1/book-discussion-george-wallace-american-populist February 27, 1994] | Stephen Lesher | George Wallace: American Populist | George Wallace |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55075-1/book-discussion-makes-wanna-holler March 6, 1994] | Nathan McCall | Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America | Memoir/Autobiography |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55212-1/book-discussion-debt-taxes March 13, 1994] | Norman Ornstein | Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It | Taxation in the United States; United States public debt |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55387-1/book-discussion-man-mirror-benedict-arnold March 20, 1994] | Clare Brandt | The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold | Benedict Arnold |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55567-1/book-discussion-times March 27, 1994] | John Corry | My Times: Adventures in the News Trade | Memoir/Autobiography; The New York Times |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55778-1/book-discussion-way-way April 3, 1994] | Andrew Young | A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young | Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55934-1/booknotes-fifth-anniversary-special April 10, 1994] | Fifth Anniversary Special | N/A | Excerpts from and interviews about the first five years of Booknotes |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55947-1/book-discussion-time-chance April 17, 1994] | James Cannon | Time and Change: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History | Gerald Ford |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?56058-1/book-discussion-fly-fishing-midlife-crisis May 1, 1994] | Howell Raines | Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?56542-1/book-discussion-history-warfare May 8, 1994] | John Keegan | A History of Warfare | Warfare |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55945-1/book-discussion-american-presidency May 15, 1994] | Forrest McDonald | The American Presidency: An Intellectual History | President of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55946-1/book-discussion-fought-186165 May 22, 1994] | James McPherson | What They Fought For, 1861-1865 | American Civil War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?56059-1/book-discussion-drinking-life-memoir May 29, 1994] | Pete Hamill | A Drinking Life: A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?57267-1/book-discussion-dday-june-6-1944 June 5, 1994] | Stephen Ambrose | D-Day: June 6, 1944—The Climactic Battle of World War II | Operation Overlord |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?56384-1/book-discussion-last-best-hope-earth-abraham-lincoln June 12, 1994] | Mark E. Neely, Jr. | The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America | Abraham Lincoln |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?55948-1/book-discussion-portrait-america June 19, 1994] | Sam Roberts | Who We Are: A Portrait of America | Demographics of the United States; 1990 United States census |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?58251-1/book-discussion-tyranny-majority June 26, 1994] | Lani Guinier | The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy | Racism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?58456-1/book-discussion-rebellions-perversities-main-events July 3, 1994] | Murray Kempton | Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events | History of the United States; Paul Robeson; Cassius Clay; A. Philip Randolph; Karl Marx; Ronald Reagan; Westbrook Pegler; Alger Hiss; H.L. Mencken; Whittaker Chambers |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?56895-1/book-discussion-things-matter July 10, 1994] | Cal Thomas | The Things That Matter Most | Modern liberalism in the United States; Criticism of the War on Poverty |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?58074-1/book-discussion-paul-reveres-ride July 17, 1994] | David Hackett Fischer | Paul Revere's Ride | Paul Revere; "Paul Revere's Ride" |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?57532-1/book-discussion-standing-firm July 24, 1994] | Dan Quayle | Standing Firm | Memoir/Autobiography; The Vice President of the United States; George H. W. Bush |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?58661-1/book-discussion-one-peace-essays-nonviolence July 31, 1994] | Colman McCarthy | All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence | Nonviolence; Pacifism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?58674-1/book-discussion-roosevelts-american-saga August 7, 1994] | Peter Collier | The Roosevelts: An American Saga | Roosevelt family |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?59514-1/book-discussion-lincoln-american-memory August 14, 1994] | Merrill Peterson | Lincoln in American Memory | Abraham Lincoln; Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?59241-1/book-discussion-shadow-panther August 21, 1994] | Hugh Pearson | The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America | Huey Newton; The Black Panthers |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?59638-1/book-discussion-two-steps-ahead-thought-police August 28, 1994] | John Leo | Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police | Political correctness |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?60001-1/book-discussion-news-culture-lying September 4, 1994] | Paul Weaver | News and the Culture of Lying | Journalism; Pseudo-events |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?60099-1/book-discussion-stars-courses September 11, 1994] | Shelby Foote | Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign | American Civil War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?59608-1/book-discussion-john-c-calhoun-biography September 18, 1994] | Irving Bartlett | John C. Calhoun: A Biography | John Calhoun |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?59640-1/book-discussion-will-rogers-biography September 25, 1994] | Ben Yagoda | Will Rogers: A Biography | Will Rogers |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?60458-1/book-discussion-dream-city-race-power-decline-dc October 2, 1994] | Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood | Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. | Washington, D.C. |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?60633-1/book-discussion-colored-people-memoir October 9, 1994] | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Colored People | African-American history; African Americans in the 1960s |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?60408-1/book-discussion-china-wakes October 16, 1994] | Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power | China |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?61059-1/book-discussion-unplanned-parenthood October 23, 1994] | Liz Carpenter | Unplanned Parenthood | Parenting; Old age; Lady Bird Johnson |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?61222-1/book-discussion-dead-right October 30, 1994] | David Frum | Dead Right | Republican Party (United States) |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?60989-1/book-discussion-club-fed November 6, 1994] | Bill Thomas | Club Fed: Power, Money, Sex and Violence on Capitol Hill | Political power; Capitol Hill |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?60409-1/book-discussion-journey-economic-time November 13, 1994] | John Kenneth Galbraith | A Journey Through Economic Time | Economics |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?61272-1/book-discussion-road-serfdom November 20, 1994] | Milton Friedman | Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom | Economics; Classical liberalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?61780-1/book-discussion-warriors-dont-cry November 27, 1994] | Melba Pattillo Beals | Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High | Memoir/Autobiography; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock Nine |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?61965-1/book-discussion-bell-curve December 4, 1994] | Charles Murray | The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life | Intelligence; Race and intelligence |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62117-1/book-discussion-edge-clinton-presidency December 11, 1994] | Elizabeth Drew | On The Edge: The Clinton Presidency | Bill Clinton; Presidency of Bill Clinton |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62271-1/book-discussion-snapshots-hellthe-making-mba December 18, 1994] | Peter Robinson | Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62334-1/book-discussion-beyond-promised-land-jews-arabs December 25, 1994] | Glenn Frankel | Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel | Israel; Israeli–Palestinian conflict |