List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2002
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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 |archive-date=28 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528020906/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/arts/television/04lamb.html |url-status=live }} 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/?168061-1/book-discussion-spin-ways-dont-tell-truth January 6, 2002] | Bill Press | Spin This! All The Ways We Don’t Tell the Truth | Spin (public relations) |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?166924-1/book-discussion-smiling-cultural-catastrophe January 13, 2002] | Jeffrey Hart | Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education | Western canon; Higher education in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168241-1/book-discussion-cat-hue-vietnam-war-story January 20, 2002] | John Laurence | The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story | The Vietnam War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168338-1/book-discussion-lazy-b-growing-cattle-ranch January 27, 2002] | Sandra Day O’Connor | Lazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest | Memoir/Autobiography; Duncan, Arizona; Ranching |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168072-1/book-discussion-crashing-party February 3, 2002] | Ralph Nader | Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President | Memoir/Autobiography; 2000 United States presidential election; Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2000 |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?167668-1/book-discussion-harry-ike February 10, 2002] | Steve Neal | Harry & Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World | Harry Truman; Dwight Eisenhower |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168016-1/book-discussion-blood-moon February 17, 2002] | Edward Steers Jr. | Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?167904-1/book-discussion-john-marshall-heroic-age-supreme-court February 24, 2002] | R. Kent Newmyer | John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court | John Marshall |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168015-1/randall-kennedy-nigger-strange-career-troublesome-word March 3, 2002] | Randall Kennedy | Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word | Use of the word "Nigger" |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169045-1/book-discussion-sinclair-lewis-rebel-main-street March 10, 2002] | Richard Lingeman | Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet | Sinclair Lewis |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169169-1/book-discussion-two-wings-humble-faith-common-sense March 17, 2002] | Michael Novak | On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding | History of religion in the United States; Founding Fathers of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168649-1/book-discussion-adventures-extremists March 24, 2002] | Jon Ronson | Them: Adventures with Extremists | Conspiracy Theories; Extremism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168640-1/book-discussion-yellow-race-america-beyond-black-white March 31, 2002] | Frank Wu | Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White | Asian Americans |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168797-1/book-discussion-news-news April 7, 2002] | Leonard Downie Jr., Co-Author | The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril | Journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168868-1/book-discussion-pretender-martin-frankel April 14, 2002] | Ellen Joan Pollock | The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History | Martin Frankel |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168964-1/book-discussion-american-revolution April 21, 2002] | Gordon Wood | The American Revolution: A History | The American Revolution |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169138-1/book-discussion-john-maynard-keynes-fighting-freedom April 28, 2002] | Robert Skidelsky | John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 | John Maynard Keynes |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169257-1/book-discussion-good-fight May 5, 2002] | Sarah Brady | A Good Fight | James Brady; Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; Gun politics in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169320-1/book-discussion-happened-johnnie-jordan May 12, 2002] | Jennifer Toth | What Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of A Child Turning Violent | Causes and correlates of crime; Foster care |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170126-1/book-discussion-franklin-essential-founding-father May 19, 2002] | James Srodes | Franklin: The Essential Founding Father | Benjamin Franklin |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169660-1/book-discussion-lay-dying May 26, 2002] | Richard John Neuhaus | As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning | Death |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169625-1/book-discussion-public-intellectuals June 2, 2002] | Richard Posner | Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline | Public intellectuals |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169779-1/book-discussion-tuxedo-park June 9, 2002] | Jennet Conant | Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II | Alfred Lee Loomis |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170542-1/book-discussion-problem-hell June 16, 2002] | Samantha Power | A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide | Genocide; United States non-interventionism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170043-1/book-discussion-lusitania-epic-tragedy June 23, 2002] | Diana Preston | Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy | The RMS Lusitania |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170086-1/book-discussion-lonesome-rangers June 30, 2002] | John Leonard | Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures | Essays; Intellectuals; Exile; Expatriates |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170827-1/sandra-mackey-reckoning-2002 July 7, 2002] | Sandra Mackey | The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein | Iraq; Saddam Hussein |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170207-1/book-discussion-buddhas-child-fight-save-vietnam July 14, 2002] | Nguyen Cao Ky | Buddha’s Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam | Vietnam |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170335-1/book-discussion-boy-genius-mogul July 21, 2002] | Daniel Stashower | The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television | Philo T. Farnsworth; David Sarnoff; History of Television |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?171497-1/book-discussion-ciao-america July 28, 2002] | Beppe Severgnini | Ciao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S. | Culture of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170563-1/book-discussion-anatomy-racial-inequality August 4, 2002] | Glenn Loury | The Anatomy of Racial Inequality | Race in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?171133-1/book-discussion-slander-liberal-lies-american-right August 11, 2002] | Ann Coulter | Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right | Media bias in the United States; American Left; Conservatism in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170755-1/book-discussion-poet-murderer August 18, 2002] | Simon Worrall | The Poet and the Murderer | Mark Hofmann |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?171882-1/michael-oren-six-days-war August 25, 2002] | Michael Oren | Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East | The Six-Day War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170936-1/book-discussion-storm-flanders September 1, 2002] | Winston Groom | A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918—Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front | Ypres Salient; First Battle of Ypres; Second Battle of Ypres; Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of the Lys (1918); Fifth Battle of Ypres |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?171132-1/book-discussion-forgotten-memoir-john-knox September 8, 2002] | Dennis Hutchinson | The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington | John Frush Knox |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?172600-1/book-discussion-king-mountain September 15, 2002] | Arnold Ludwig | King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership | Leadership; Politics; Heads of state; Heads of government |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?172771-1/book-discussion-supreme-command September 22, 2002] | Eliot Cohen | Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime | Civilian control of the military; Abraham Lincoln; Georges Clemenceau; Winston Churchill; David Ben-Gurion |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?171603-1/book-discussion-american-road September 29, 2002] | Pete Davies | American Road: The Story of An Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age | Transcontinental Motor Convoy |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?171602-1/book-discussion-zig-autobiography-zig-ziglar October 6, 2002] | Zig Ziglar | Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar | Memoir/Autobiography; Sales; Motivational speaking |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?172089-1/linda-greenlaw-lobster-chronicles October 13, 2002] | Linda Greenlaw | The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island | Lobstering; Maine |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?173268-1/book-discussion-ideas-conquered-world October 20, 2002] | Michael Mandelbaum | The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century | Globalization; Peace; Democracy; Free market economics |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?172182-1/book-discussion-noble-obsession October 27, 2002] | Charles Slack | Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century | Charles Goodyear; Thomas Hancock; Vulcanization |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?173283-1/book-discussion-passion-islam November 3, 2002] | Caryle Murphy | Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East—The Egyptian Experience | Islam in Egypt |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?172900-1/book-discussion-judging-lincoln November 10, 2002] | Frank Williams | Judging Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?172901-1/book-discussion-army-dawn November 17, 2002] | Rick Atkinson | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 | North African Campaign; Operation Torch |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?173040-1/book-discussion-carnegie November 24, 2002] | Peter Krass | Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?173423-1/book-discussion-abraham-journey-heart-three-faiths December 1, 2002] | Bruce Feiler | Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths | Abraham; Abrahamic religions |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?173558-1/book-discussion-invasion December 8, 2002] | Michelle Malkin | Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores | Immigration to the United States; Illegal immigration to the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?173700-1/book-discussion-great-white-fathers December 15, 2002] | John Taliaferro | Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore | Gutzon Borglum; Mount Rushmore; Construction of Mount Rushmore |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174049-1/book-discussion-public-private December 22, 2002] | Diana Walker | Public & Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the Presidency | Photojournalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174388-1/book-discussion-paris-1919-six-months-changed-world December 29, 2002] | Margaret MacMillan | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World | Paris Peace Conference, 1919 |