List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1997
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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/?161891-1/book-discussion-book-business-publishing-past-present-future January 5, 1997] | Edward Jay Epstein | Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer | Armand Hammer |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?77425-1/book-discussion-strange-deaths-president-harding January 12, 1997] | Robert Ferrell | The Strange Deaths of President Harding | Warren G. Harding |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?77381-1/book-discussion-trial-triumph-presidential-power January 19, 1997] | Alfred Zacher | Trial and Triumph: Presidential Power in the Second Term | President of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?93523-1/book-discussion-speaking-truth-power January 23, 1997] | Anita Hill | Speaking Truth to Power | Memoir/Autobiography; Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?77824-1/book-discussion-libertarianism-primer January 26, 1997] | David Boaz | Libertarianism: A Primer | Libertarianism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?77953-1/book-discussion-one-mans-america February 2, 1997] | Henry Grunwald | One Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Time Magazine |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?78276-1/book-discussion-bad-boy-life-politics-lee-atwater February 9, 1997] | John Brady | Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater | Lee Atwater |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?78359-1/book-discussion-personal-history February 16, 1997] | Katharine Graham | Personal History | Memoir/Autobiography; The Washington Post; The Washington Post Company |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?78890-1/whittaker-chambers-biography-part-1 February 23, 1997] and [http://www.c-span.org/video/?78894-1/whittaker-chambers-biography-part-2 March 2, 1997] | Sam Tanenhaus | Whittaker Chambers: A Biography | Whittaker Chambers |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?78480-1/book-discussion-passage-union March 9, 1997] | Sarah Gordon | Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929 | History of rail transport in North America |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?78190-1/book-discussion-war-means-economic-espionage March 19, 1997] | John Fialka | War By Other Means: Economic Espionage in America | Industrial espionage |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?78628-1/book-discussion-virtuous-reality March 23, 1997] | Jon Katz | Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits & Blockheads Like William Bennett | William Bennett |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?79045-1/book-discussion-original-man-elijah-muhammad March 30, 1997] | Claude Andrew Clegg III | An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad | Elijah Muhammad |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?79419-1/book-discussion-america April 6, 1997] | Keith Richburg | Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa | Africa |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80204-1/book-discussion-radical-son-generational-odyssey April 13, 1997] | David Horowitz | Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey | Memoir/Autobiography; American Left |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?79680-1/book-discussion-crazy-rhythm April 20, 1997] | Leonard Garment | Crazy Rhythm: My Journey From Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street, to Nixon's White House, Watergate and Beyond | Memoir/Autobiography; Billie Holiday :Category:Presidency of Richard Nixon |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80568-1/book-discussion-approaching-fury April 27, 1997] | Stephen Oates | The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 | Origins of the American Civil War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80114-1/book-discussion-wry-martinis May 4, 1997] | Christopher Buckley | Wry Martinis | Essays |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80193-1/book-discussion-coming-conflict-china May 11, 1997] | Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro | The Coming Conflict with China | Sino-American relations |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80382-1/book-discussion-bright-college-years May 18, 1997] | Anne Matthews | Bright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today | Higher education in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80419-1/book-discussion-asphalt-nation May 25, 1997] | Jane Holtz Kay | Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back | Automotive industry in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80477-1/book-discussion-writers-desk June 1, 1997] | Jill Krementz | The Writer's Desk | Creative writing; Kurt Vonnegut |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?80864-1/book-discussion-years-gorbachev-shevardnadze June 8, 1997] | Pavel Palazchenko | My Years With Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter | Memoir/Autobiography; Mikhail Gorbachev; Eduard Shevardnadze |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?81017-1/book-discussion-promised-land-crusader-state June 15, 1997] | Walter A. McDougall | Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 | Foreign policy of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?81209-1/book-discussion-confessions-white-house-ghostwriter June 22, 1997] | James Humes | Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures | Memoir/Autobiography; Speechwriting |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?81241-1/book-discussion-reporters-life June 29, 1997] | Walter Cronkite | A Reporter's Life | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?84989-1/book-discussion-original-meanings July 6, 1997] | Jack Rakove | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution | The U.S. Constitution |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?86425-1/book-discussion-storm July 13, 1997] | Tom Clancy and Gen. Fred Franks | Into the Storm: A Study in Command | General officers in the United States; General (United States) |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?86445-1/book-discussion-american-visions July 20, 1997] | Robert Hughes | American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America | Visual art of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?86638-1/book-discussion-rage-fame-ascent-clare-boothe-luce July 27, 1997] | Sylvia Jukes Morris | Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce | Clare Boothe Luce |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?87257-1/book-discussion-america August 3, 1997] | LeAlan Jones | Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago | Ghetto Life 101; Ida B. Wells Homes |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?87455-1/book-discussion-ernie-pyles-war August 10, 1997] | James Tobin | Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II | Ernie Pyle |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?87476-1/influence-declaration-independence August 17, 1997] | Pauline Maier | American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence | The United States Declaration of Independence |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?87686-1/book-discussion-underboss August 24, 1997] | Peter Maas | Underboss: Sammy The Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia | Sammy "The Bull" Gravano |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?89415-1/book-discussion-midnight-garden-good-evil August 28, 1997] | John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story | Savannah, Georgia; Jim Williams |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?87803-1/book-discussion-angelas-ashes August 31, 1997] | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | Memoir/Autobiography; Limerick, Ireland; Brooklyn, New York; Irish Americans; Malachy McCourt; Alphie McCourt |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?88272-1/book-discussion-words-live September 7, 1997] | Brian Burrell | The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, and Pledges That Have Shaped America | Creeds; Mottoes; Oaths; The Pledge of Allegiance; "In God We Trust" |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?89104-1/book-discussion-captured-history September 14, 1997] | John Toland | Captured By History: One Man's Vision of Our Tumultuous Century | 20th century |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?89123-1/book-discussion-good-book September 21, 1997] | Peter Gomes | The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart | The Bible |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?89403-1/book-discussion-extraordinary-minds October 5, 1997] | Howard Gardner | Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sigmund Freud; Virginia Woolf; Mahatma Gandhi |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?91723-1/book-discussion-ulysses-s-grant-soldier-president October 12, 1997] | Geoffrey Perret | Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President | Ulysses S. Grant |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?91396-1/book-discussion-speaking-freely October 19, 1997] | Nat Hentoff | Speaking Freely: A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; First Amendment; Jazz |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?91435-1/book-discussion-napoleon-bonaparte October 26, 1997] | Alan Schom | Napoleon Bonaparte | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?91741-1/book-discussion-vindicating-founders November 2, 1997] | Thomas West | Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America | Founding Fathers of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?92609-1/book-discussion-drawing-life November 16, 1997] | David Gelernter | Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber | The Unabomber |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?93482-1/book-discussion-mutual-contempt November 30, 1997] | Jeff Shesol | Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade | Lyndon Johnson; Robert F. Kennedy |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?94704-1/book-discussion-meet-press-50-years-history December 7, 1997] | Tim Russert | Meet the Press: 50 Years of History in the Making | Meet the Press |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?95192-1/susan-butler-east-dawn December 14, 1997] | Susan Butler | East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart | Amelia Earhart |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?95193-1/book-discussion-theres-nothing-middle-road December 21, 1997] | Jim Hightower | There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos | Progressivism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?96281-1/book-discussion-party December 28, 1997] | Sally Quinn | The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining | Dinner parties |