List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1995
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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/?61121-1/book-discussion-ordinary-time January 1, 1995] | Doris Kearns Goodwin | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Home Front in World War II | Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; United States home front during World War II |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?61995-1/book-discussion-moral-animal January 8, 1995] | Robert Wright | The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are -- The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology | Evolutionary Psychology |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62205-1/book-discussion-treason-blood January 15, 1995] | Anthony Cave Brown | Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century | St. John Philby; Kim Philby; The Cambridge Five |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62813-1/book-discussion-tragedy-american-compassion January 22, 1995] | Marvin Olasky | The Tragedy of American Compassion | Criticism of The War on Poverty |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62456-1/book-discussion-bill January 29, 1995] | Steven Waldman | The Bill: How the Adventures of Clinton's National Service Bill Reveal What Is Corrupt, Comic, Cynical, and Noble about Washington | Corporation for National and Community Service |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62252-1/book-discussion-theme-freedom February 5, 1995] | M. Stanton Evans | The Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition | Political freedom; Economic freedom |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63298-1/book-discussion-death-common-sense February 12, 1995] | Philip Howard | The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America | Individual and group rights |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62763-1/book-discussion-always-reckoning-poems February 19, 1995] | Jimmy Carter | Always a Reckoning and Other Poems | Poetry |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63370-1/introduction-democracy-america February 26, 1995] | Alan Ryan | Introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville; Democracy in America |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63336-1/book-discussion-failure-impossible-susan-b-anthony March 5, 1995] | Lynn Sherr | Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words | Susan B. Anthony |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?62796-1/book-discussion-origins-war March 12, 1995] | Donald Kagan | On the Origins of War | War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63449-1/book-discussion-edison-inventing-century March 19, 1995] | Neil Baldwin | Edison: Inventing the Century | Thomas Edison |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63448-1/book-discussion-lies-teacher-told March 26, 1995] | James Loewen | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong | Textbooks; Eurocentrism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63787-1/book-discussion-demoralization-society April 2, 1995] | Gertrude Himmelfarb | The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values | Victorian morality |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63783-1/book-discussion-middle-class-dreams April 9, 1995] | Stanley Greenberg | Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority | American middle class |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?63955-1/book-discussion-creating-new-civilization April 16, 1995] | Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler | Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave | The Third Wave (Toffler book); Post-industrial society |
| April 23, 1995 ([http://www.c-span.org/video/?64642-2/retrospect-tragedy-lessons-vietnam-part-1 Pt. 1] and [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64642-3/retrospect-tragedy-lessons-vietnam-part-2 Pt. 2]) | Robert McNamara | In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam | The Vietnam War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64308-1/book-discussion-rogue-states-nuclear-outlaws April 30, 1995] | Michael Klare | Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign Policy | Foreign Policy of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64214-1/book-discussion-first-class May 7, 1995] | David Maraniss | First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton | Bill Clinton |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64626-1/book-discussion-common-cents May 14, 1995] | Tim Penny and Major Garrett | Common Cents | Politics of the United States; Federal government of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64668-1/book-discussion-black-judges-justice May 21, 1995] | Linn Washington | Black Judges on Justice | :Category:African-American judges; Robert N. C. Nix, Jr. |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64314-1/book-discussion-salmon-p-chase-biography May 28, 1995] | John Niven | Salmon P. Chase: A Biography | Salmon P. Chase |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?65105-1/book-discussion-side-peace-personal-account June 4, 1995] | Hanan Ashrawi | This Side of Peace | Memoir/Autobiography; Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?65259-1/book-discussion-alien-nation June 11, 1995] | Peter Brimelow | Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster | Immigration to the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64553-1/book-discussion-washington-station-life-kgb-spy June 18, 1995] | Yuri Shvets | Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America | The KGB; History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64863-1/book-discussion-oswalds-tale-american-mystery June 25, 1995] | Norman Mailer | Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?64862-1/book-discussion-rutherford-b-hayes July 2, 1995] | Ari Hoogenboom | Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?65858-1/book-discussion-woodholme-black-mans-story July 9, 1995] | DeWayne Wickham | Woodholme: A Black Man's Story of Growing Up Alone | Memoir/Autobiography; African Americans |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?65870-1/book-discussion-beyond-blame July 16, 1995] | Armstrong Williams | Beyond Blame: How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency Barrier | Blame; Affirmative action in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66038-1/book-discussion-renew-america July 23, 1995] | Newt Gingrich | To Renew America | United States history; Conservatism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66079-1/book-discussion-moving-violations-memoir July 30, 1995] | John Hockenberry | Moving Violations: A Memoir—War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Physical disability |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?65756-1/book-discussion-wall August 6, 1995] | Marc Fisher | After the Wall: Germany, The Germans, and the Burdens of History | Germany; The Berlin Wall |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66144-1/book-discussion-emerson-mind-fire August 13, 1995] | Robert D. Richardson, Jr. | Emerson: The Mind on Fire | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66346-1/book-discussion-hoovers-fbi August 20, 1995] | Cartha "Deke" DeLoach | Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant | J. Edgar Hoover; The Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66211-1/book-discussion-nightingales-song August 27, 1995] | Robert Timberg | The Nightingale's Song | John McCain; Bud McFarlane; Oliver North; John Poindexter; Jim Webb; The U.S. Naval Academy; The Vietnam War; The Iran-Contra Affair |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66766-1/book-discussion-okinawa-last-battle-world-war-ii September 3, 1995] | Robert Leckie | Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II | The Battle of Okinawa |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66914-1/book-discussion-robert-e-lee-biography September 10, 1995] | Emory Thomas | Robert E. Lee: A Biography | Robert E. Lee |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66860-1/book-discussion-divided-lives September 17, 1995] | Elsa Walsh | Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women | Meredith Vieira; Rachael Worby; Alison Estabrook |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67045-1/book-discussion-neoconservatism September 24, 1995] | Irving Kristol | Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea | Neoconservatism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?66925-1/book-discussion-virtually-normal October 1, 1995] | Andrew Sullivan | Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality | Homosexuality |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67133-1/susan-eisenhower-breaking-free October 8, 1995] | Susan Eisenhower | Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love | Memoir/Autobiography; Roald Sagdeev |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67215-1/book-discussion-gentle-madness October 15, 1995] | Nicholas Basbanes | A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books | Bibliomania; Bibliophilia |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67512-1/book-discussion-time-americans October 22, 1995] | David Fromkin | In The Time of Americans: The Generation that Changed America's Role in the World | History of U.S. foreign policy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower; George Marshall; Douglas MacArthur |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67506-1/book-discussion-ben-bradlee-good-life October 29, 1995] | Ben Bradlee | A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures | The Washington Post |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67754-1/book-discussion-call-briefing November 5, 1995] | Marlin Fitzwater | Call the Briefing! Bush and Reagan, Sam and Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press | Memoir/Autobiography; White House Press Secretary; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; :Category:Presidency of George H. W. Bush |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67372-1/book-discussion-ps-memoir November 12, 1995] | Pierre Salinger | P.S., A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; White House Press Secretary; Kennedy Administration |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67753-1/book-discussion-killing-rage-ending-racism November 19, 1995] | bell hooks | Killing Rage: Ending Racism | Racism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?67617-1/book-discussion-fresh-blood-new-american-immigrants November 26, 1995] | Sanford Ungar | Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants | Immigration to the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?68174-1/book-discussion-politics-diplomacy December 3, 1995] | James Baker | The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992 | Memoir/Autobiography; United States Secretary of State; George H. W. Bush |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?68215-1/book-discussion-memoir December 10, 1995] | David Brinkley | A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?68051-1/book-discussion-best-men December 17, 1995] | Evan Thomas | The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared—The Early Years of the CIA | The Central Intelligence Agency |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?68638-1/book-discussion-lincoln December 24, 1995] | David Herbert Donald | Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?68402-1/book-discussion-charles-kuralts-america December 31, 1995] | Charles Kuralt | Charles Kuralt's America | The United States of America; CBS News Sunday Morning |
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