List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1998
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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/?94696-1/book-discussion-john-quincy-adams January 4, 1998] | Paul Nagel | John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life | John Quincy Adams |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?95452-1/book-discussion-rape-nanking January 11, 1998] | Iris Chang | The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II | The Nanking Massacre |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?95782-1/book-discussion-america-many-words January 18, 1998] | Allan Metcalf and David Barnhart | America In So Many Words | American English |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?97109-1/book-discussion-conspiracy January 25, 1998] | Daniel Pipes | Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From | Conspiracy theories |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?99360-1/book-discussion-showtime February 1, 1998] | Roger Simon | Showtime: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House | United States presidential primary |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?96629-1/book-discussion-picketts-charge-history-memory February 8, 1998] | Carol Reardon | Pickett's Charge in History & Memory | George Pickett; Pickett's Charge |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?100446-1/book-discussion-profiles-character February 15, 1998] | Joseph Hernon | Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990 | The United States Senate |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?98565-1/book-discussion-game-matters February 22, 1998] | William Gildea | Where the Game Matters Most | Hoosier Hysteria |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?98739-1/book-discussion-hitler-history March 1, 1998] | John Lukacs | The Hitler of History | Adolf Hitler |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?99247-1/book-discussion-petticoat-affair March 8, 1998] | John Marszalek | The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House | The Petticoat affair |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?101900-1/book-discussion-defending-spirit March 15, 1998] | Randall Robinson | Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America | Memoir/Autobiography; TransAfrica |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?100801-1/book-discussion-irony-virtue March 22, 1998] | Ernest Lefever | The Irony of Virtue: Ethics and American Power | Ethics |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?101451-1/book-discussion-honors-voice March 29, 1998] | Douglas L. Wilson | Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?102205-1/book-discussion-history-american-people April 5, 1998] | Paul Johnson | A History of the American People | History of the United States |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?100454-1/book-discussion-pillar-fire-america-king-years April 12, 1998] | Taylor Branch | Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 | Martin Luther King Jr. |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?102268-1/book-discussion-agent-destiny April 19, 1998] | John S.D. Eisenhower | Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott | Winfield Scott |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?102566-1/book-discussion-got-dance-brung April 26, 1998] | Molly Ivins | You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years | Politics of the United States; Politics of Texas; Presidency of Bill Clinton |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?102936-1/book-discussion-great-souls-six-changed-century May 3, 1998] | David Aikman | Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century | Mother Teresa; Nelson Mandela; Billy Graham; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Pope John II; Elie Wiesel |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?103669-1/book-discussion-disuniting-america May 10, 1998] | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society | Multiculturalism |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?103023-1/book-discussion-great-betrayal May 17, 1998] | Patrick Buchanan | The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy | Globalism |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?103970-1/book-discussion-memory-speaks May 24, 1998] | Jill Ker Conway | When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography | Memoirs and Autobiographies |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?104104-1/book-discussion-order May 31, 1998] | Max Boot | Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption, and Incompetence on the Bench | Corruption in local government; Law of the United States |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?106581-1/book-discussion-genuine-reality-life-william-james June 7, 1998] | Linda Simon | Genuine Reality: A Life of William James | William James |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?105026-1/book-discussion-closed-chambers June 14, 1998] | Edward Lazarus | Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court | The Supreme Court of the United States |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?105430-1/book-discussion-titan-life-john-d-rockefeller-sr June 21, 1998] | Ron Chernow | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | John D. Rockefeller |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?105855-1/book-discussion-summer-gods June 28, 1998] | Edward Larson | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion | The Scopes Trial; Relationship between religion and science |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?106121-1/book-discussion-letters-nation July 5, 1998] | Andrew Carroll | Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters | Letters |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?107917-1/book-discussion-walking-wind July 12, 1998] | John Lewis | Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement | Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?107196-1/book-discussion-william-randolph-hearst-early-years July 19, 1998] | Ben H. Procter | William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910 | William Randolph Hearst |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?106538-1/book-discussion-end-war July 26, 1998] | Richard Holbrooke | To End a War | Bosnian War; Dayton Agreement |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?109114-1/book-discussion-domestic-tranquility-brief-feminism August 2, 1998] | F. Carolyn Graglia | Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism | Feminism; Antifeminism |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?107473-1/book-discussion-faubus-life-times August 9, 1998] | Roy Reed | Faubus: The Life and Times of An American Prodigal | Orval Faubus |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?109116-1/book-discussion-money-morals-america-history August 16, 1998] | Patricia O'Toole | Money and Morals in America | Philanthropy in the United States |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?109118-1/book-discussion-great-hill-stations-asia August 23, 1998] | Barbara Crossette | The Great Hill Stations of Asia | Hill stations |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?110049-1/book-discussion-coolidge-american-enigma August 30, 1998] | Robert Sobel | Coolidge: An America Enigma | Calvin Coolidge |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?110653-1/book-discussion-badge-courage-life-stephen-crane September 6, 1998] | Linda Davis | Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane | Stephen Crane |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?110059-1/book-discussion-fatal-friendship-hamilton-burr September 13, 1998] | Arnold Rogow | A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr | Alexander Hamilton; Aaron Burr; Burr–Hamilton duel |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?110971-1/book-discussion-father-spin-edward-bernays September 20, 1998] | Larry Tye | The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations | Edward Bernays; Public relations |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?110676-1/book-discussion-americas-30-years-war-winning September 27, 1998] | Balint Vazsonyi | America’s 30 Years War: Who Is Winning? | Economic history of the United States; Socialism |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?112316-1/book-discussion-world-transformed October 4, 1998] | George Bush and Brent Scowcroft | A World Transformed | United States foreign policy; History of the United States National Security Council 1989–1993; Cold War (1985–1991) |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?111331-1/book-discussion-thurgood-marshall October 11, 1998] | Juan Williams | Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary | Thurgood Marshall |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?112317-1/book-discussion-summer-deliverance-memoir October 18, 1998] | Christopher Dickey | Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son | Memoir/Autobiography; James Dickey; The novel Deliverance; The film Deliverance |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?111945-1/book-discussion-helen-keller-life October 25, 1998] | Dorothy Herrmann | Helen Keller: A Life | Helen Keller |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?112659-1/book-discussion-buying-congress November 1, 1998] | Charles Lewis | The Buying of the Congress: How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness | Lobbying in the United States |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?112280-1/book-discussion-professor-madman November 8, 1998] | Simon Winchester | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | The Oxford English Dictionary; William Chester Minor; James Murray |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?113124-1/book-discussion-story-american-freedom November 15, 1998] | Eric Foner | The Story of American Freedom | Civil liberties in the United States; Political freedom |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?115511-1/book-discussion-wish-inform November 22, 1998] | Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda | Rwandan genocide |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?114491-1/book-discussion-anne-frank-biography November 29, 1998] | Melissa Müller | Anne Frank: The Biography | Anne Frank |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?115429-1/book-discussion-dream-deferred December 6, 1998] | Shelby Steele | A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America | Affirmative action; Reverse discrimination |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?114805-1/book-discussion-fortress-america December 13, 1998] | William Greider | Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace | Military budget of the United States |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?115519-1/book-discussion-lindbergh December 20, 1998] | A. Scott Berg | Lindbergh | Charles Lindbergh |
[http://www.c-span.org/video/?116061-1/book-discussion-century December 27, 1998] | Peter Jennings | The Century | American Century |