List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2001
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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/?160073-1/book-discussion-inextinguishable-symphony January 7, 2001] | Martin Goldsmith | The Inextinguishable Symphony | Jüdischer Kulturbund; :Category:Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?161211-1/book-discussion-virtue-prosperity January 14, 2001] | Dinesh D'Souza | The Virtue of Prosperity | Prosperity |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?161212-1/book-discussion-federalist January 21, 2001] | Robert Scigliano | The Federalist Papers | The Federalist Papers |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?161216-1/book-discussion-passion-truth January 28, 2001] | Arlen Specter | Passion for Truth | Memoir/Autobiography; Single bullet theory; United States Senate |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?160555-1/informant-true-story-part-1 February 4, 2001] and [http://www.c-span.org/video/?160555-2/informant-true-story-part-2 February 11, 2001] | Kurt Eichenwald | The Informant: A True Story | Lysine price-fixing conspiracy; Archer Daniels Midland; Mark Whitacre |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?160904-1/book-discussion-niccolos-smile February 18, 2001] | Maurizio Viroli | Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?161310-1/book-discussion-america-afire February 25, 2001] | Bernard Weisberger | America Afire | 1800 United States presidential election |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?162903-1/book-discussion-callus-soul-memoir March 4, 2001] | Dick Gregory | Callus on My Soul: A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?162904-1/book-discussion-orwell-wintry-conscience-generation March 11, 2001] | Jeffrey Meyers | Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation | George Orwell |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?161891-1/book-discussion-book-business-publishing-past-present-future March 18, 2001] | Jason Epstein | Book Business: Publishing—Past, Present, and Future | Publishing |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?162772-1/book-discussion-ted-world March 25, 2001] | Reese Schonfeld | Me and Ted Against the World | History of CNN (1980–2003); Ted Turner |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163061-1/book-discussion-tell-story April 1, 2001] | Don Hewitt | Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television | Memoir/Autobiography; CBS News; 60 Minutes |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?162328-1/book-discussion-jefferson-davis-american April 8, 2001] | William Cooper | Jefferson Davis, American | Jefferson Davis |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163674-1/book-discussion-americas-jubilee April 15, 2001] | Andrew Burstein | America's Jubilee | 1826 in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163850-1/book-discussion-remember-harlem April 22, 2001] | Emily Bernard | Remember Me to Harlem | Harlem Renaissance; Carl Van Vechten; Langston Hughes |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163338-1/book-discussion-reagan-hand April 29, 2001] | Kiron Skinner | Reagan In His Own Hand | Ronald Reagan |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163492-1/book-discussion-three-roosevelts May 6, 2001] | Susan Dunn and James MacGregor Burns | The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America | Theodore Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164139-1/book-discussion-empire-statesman May 13, 2001] | Robert Slayton | Empire Statesman: The Rise & Redemption of Al Smith | Al Smith |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163566-1/book-discussion-tip-oneill-democratic-century May 20, 2001] | John Farrell | Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century | Tip O'Neill |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163715-1/book-discussion-carry-home May 27, 2001] | Diane McWhorter | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | Birmingham campaign; 16th Street Baptist Church bombing |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164532-1/book-discussion-storm-barry-goldwater June 3, 2001] | Rick Perlstein | Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus | Barry Goldwater |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164555-1/book-discussion-saving-milly-love-politics-parkinsons-disease June 10, 2001] | Morton Kondracke | Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease | Parkinson's disease |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163925-1/book-discussion-reflections-exile-essays June 17, 2001] | Edward Said | Reflections on Exile and Other Essays | Essays; Literary criticism; Palestine |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163971-1/book-discussion-looking-history-dispatches-latin-america June 24, 2001] | Alma Guillermoprieto | Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America | Latin America |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164149-1/book-discussion-staying-tuned-life-journalism July 1, 2001] | Daniel Schorr | Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164172-1/book-discussion-friedrich-hayek-biography July 8, 2001] | Alan Ebenstein | Friedrich Hayek: A Biography | Friedrich Hayek |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164282-1/book-discussion-pc-md July 15, 2001] | Sally Satel | PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine | Political correctness; Medicine |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165212-1/book-discussion-oh-waiter-one-order-crow July 22, 2001] | Jeff Greenfield | Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History | 2000 United States presidential election |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164644-1/book-discussion-april-1865-month-saved-america July 29, 2001] | Jay Winik | April 1865: The Month That Saved America | Conclusion of the American Civil War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165452-1/book-discussion-glory-denied-longestheld-prisoner-war August 5, 2001] | Tom Philpott | Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War | Floyd James Thompson |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164859-1/founding-fathers-race-freedom August 12, 2001] | Roger Wilkins | Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism | George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; George Mason |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164961-1/book-discussion-making-patriots August 19, 2001] | Walter Berns | Making Patriots | American nationalism; Patriotism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164982-1/book-discussion-new-dealers-war August 26, 2001] | Thomas Fleming | The New Dealers' War | Franklin Roosevelt; Military history of the United States during World War II |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165148-1/book-discussion-hirohito-making-modern-japan September 2, 2001] | Herbert Bix | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | Hirohito; Shōwa period |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165162-1/book-discussion-flag-poet-song September 9, 2001] | Irvin Molotsky | The Flag, The Poet and The Song | Flag of the United States; The Star-Spangled Banner; Francis Scott Key |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166048-1/national-security-terrorism September 16, 2001] [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166049-1/open-phones-national-security-terrorism (Open phones)] | James Bamford and Jeffrey Richelson | Body of Secrets; The Wizards of Langley | The Central Intelligence Agency; The National Security Agency; United States Intelligence Community. (Note: This interview, the first one after the September 11 attacks, was aired live and featured viewer calls. It is also the only Booknotes to feature two different authors discussing their own separate books.) |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166176-1/book-discussion-business-america September 23, 2001] [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166176-1/book-discussion-business-america (Open phones)] | John Steele Gordon | The Business of America | Economy of the United States; Economic history of the United States; Business. (Note: This interview, the second one after the September 11 attacks, was aired live and featured viewer calls.) |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165360-1/hampton-sides-ghost-soldiers September 30, 2001] | Hampton Sides | Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission | Battle of Bataan; Raid at Cabanatuan |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166458-1/book-discussion-old-wifes-tale October 7, 2001] | Midge Decter | An Old Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War | Memoir/Autobiography; History of women in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165656-1/book-discussion-carry-nation October 14, 2001] | Fran Grace | Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life | Carry Nation |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166753-1/book-discussion-crescent-star-turkey-two-worlds October 21, 2001] | Stephen Kinzer | Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds | Turkey |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165238-1/book-discussion-frank-jesse-james October 28, 2001] | Ted Yeatman | Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend | Frank James; Jesse James; James-Younger Gang |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165909-1/book-discussion-holler-hear November 4, 2001] | Michael Eric Dyson | Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur | Tupac Shakur |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?167144-1/book-discussion-roosevelts-secret-war November 11, 2001] | Joseph Persico | Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage | Franklin D. Roosevelt; Office of Strategic Services; :Category:World War II espionage |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?165751-1/book-discussion-free-agent-nation-new-independent-workers November 18, 2001] | Daniel Pink | Free Agent Nation: How America’s New Independent Workers are Transforming the Way We Live | Employment; Multiple careers |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166459-1/book-discussion-fire-genius November 25, 2001] | Kirkpatrick Sale | The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream | Robert Fulton |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166642-1/book-discussion-norman-rockwell-life December 2, 2001] | Laura Claridge | Norman Rockwell: A Life | Norman Rockwell |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166852-1/book-discussion-edith-woodrow December 9, 2001] | Phyllis Lee Levin | Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House | Woodrow Wilson; Edith Wilson |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?167784-1/book-discussion-holy-war-inc December 16, 2001] | Peter Bergen | Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden | Osama bin Laden |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166960-1/book-discussion-vernon-can-read-memoir December 23, 2001] | Vernon Jordan | Vernon Can Read! A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?167924-1/book-discussion-went-wrong December 30, 2001] | Bernard Lewis | What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response | Muslim world |