List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2003
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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=August 19, 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=August 17, 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=December 4, 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/arts/television/04lamb.html |accessdate=November 4, 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/?173967-1/book-discussion-achievement-matters-best-education-possible January 5, 2003] | Hugh Price | Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible | Education in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174208-1/book-discussion-napoleon-wellington January 12, 2003] | Andrew Roberts | Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It | Napoleon Bonaparte; The Duke of Wellington; The Battle of Waterloo |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174516-1/book-discussion-first-great-triumph January 19, 2003] | Warren Zimmermann | First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power | John Hay; Henry Cabot Lodge; Alfred Thayer Mahan; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?158365-1/book-discussion-boyd-fighter-pilot-changed-art-war January 26, 2003] | Robert Coram | Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War | John Boyd |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?173871-1/book-discussion-two-faces-islam February 2, 2003] | Stephen Schwartz | The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror | Wahhabism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174375-1/book-discussion-world-fire February 9, 2003] | Amy Chua | World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability | Globalization; Democratization; Middleman minorities |
| [https://www.c-span.org/video/?174980-1/of-paradise-power February 16, 2003] | Robert Kagan | Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order | Foreign policy of the United States; Politics of Europe |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174432-1/book-discussion-freedom-history-us February 23, 2003] | Joy Hakim | Freedom: A History of US | A History of US |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?162197-1/book-discussion-authentically-black-essays-black-silent-majority March 2, 2003] | John McWhorter | Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority | African Americans |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174681-1/book-discussion-mission March 9, 2003] | Dana Priest | The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military | United States Armed Forces |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?159925-1/book-discussion-first-world-war March 16, 2003] | Michael Howard | The First World War | World War I |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?174896-1/book-discussion-begin-world-anew March 23, 2003] | Bernard Bailyn | To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders | Founding Fathers of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?175052-1/book-discussion-useful-idiots March 30, 2003] | Mona Charen | Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First | American Left; The Cold War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?162636-1/book-discussion-fraud-century April 6, 2003] | Roy Morris, Jr. | Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes; Samuel Tilden; 1876 United States presidential election |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?163650-1/book-discussion-secret-empire April 13, 2003] | Philip Taubman | Secret Empire: Eisenhower, The CIA, and The Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage | Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Central Intelligence Agency; Spy satellites |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?168865-1/khrushchev-man-era-part-1 April 20, 2003] and April 27, 2003 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | Nikita Khrushchev |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?175675-1/book-discussion-crueler-tyrannies May 4, 2003] | Dorothy Rabinowitz | No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times | Day care sex abuse hysteria; Fells Acres day care sexual abuse trial; Gerald Amirault; McMartin preschool trial |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?170772-1/book-discussion-tearing-walls May 11, 2003] | Monica Langley | Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World And Then Nearly Lost it All | Sandy Weill |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?176128-1/book-discussion-dark-star-safari May 18, 2003] | Paul Theroux | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town | Travel literature; Africa |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?175993-1/book-discussion-gulag-history May 25, 2003] | Anne Applebaum | Gulag: A History | Gulag |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169987-1/book-discussion-falling June 1, 2003] | Raymond Strother | Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting | Memoir/Autobiography; Political consulting |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?176400-1/book-discussion-reading-lolita-tehran June 8, 2003] | Azar Nafisi | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | Memoir/Autobiography; Women's rights in Iran; Politics of Iran; Higher education in Iran |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?176507-1/book-discussion-reefer-madness-sex-drugs-cheap-labor June 15, 2003] | Eric Schlosser | Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market | Underground economy; Cannabis in the United States; Pornography in the United States; Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?176665-1/book-discussion-terror-liberalism June 22, 2003] | Paul Berman | Terror and Liberalism | War on Terror; Islamic terrorism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?176702-1/book-discussion-road-home-life-times June 29, 2003] | Vartan Gregorian | The Road to Home: My Life and Times | Memoir/Autobiography; Iranian Armenians; The Carnegie Corporation |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?176834-1/book-discussion-wilderness-immense-louisiana-purchase July 6, 2003] | Jon Kukla | A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America | The Louisiana Purchase |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?176900-1/book-discussion-older-fiddle-better-tune July 13, 2003] | Willard Scott | The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age | Memoir/Autobiography; Aging |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?159444-1/book-discussion-hollywood-king July 20, 2003] | Connie Bruck | When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence | Lew Wasserman |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?159447-1/book-discussion-dark-horse-president-james-garfield July 27, 2003] | Kenneth Ackerman | Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield | James Garfield |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?177169-1/book-discussion-open-wide-freedom-gates-memoir August 3, 2003] | Dorothy Height | Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; National Council of Negro Women |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?159445-1/book-discussion-forty-ways-look-winston-churchill August 10, 2003] | Gretchen Rubin | Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life | Winston Churchill |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?169463-1/book-discussion-absolutely-american-four-years-west-point August 17, 2003] | David Lipsky | Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point | The United States Military Academy |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?177312-1/book-discussion-praise-nepotism August 24, 2003] | Adam Bellow | In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History | Nepotism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?177962-1/book-discussion-george-washingtons-false-teeth August 31, 2003] | Robert Darnton | George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century | The Enlightenment; The French Revolution; the 18th century |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?178020-1/book-discussion-assassination-julius-caesar September 7, 2003] | Michael Parenti | The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome | Julius Caesar; Assassination of Julius Caesar; Ancient Rome |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?178161-1/book-discussion-devil-white-city September 14, 2003] | Erik Larson | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America | The World's Columbian Exposition; Daniel Burnham; H.H. Holmes |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?177827-1/book-discussion-murdering-mckinley September 21, 2003] | Eric Rauchway | Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America | Leon Czolgosz; Assassination of William McKinley; Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?177866-1/book-discussion-mexifornia-state-becoming September 28, 2003] | Victor Davis Hanson | Mexifornia: A State of Becoming | Mexifornia |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?177888-1/book-discussion-triangle-fire-changed-america October 5, 2003] | David Von Drehle | Triangle: The Fire That Changed America | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?178163-1/book-discussion-terror-name-god October 12, 2003] | Jessica Stern | Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill | Religious terrorism; Christian terrorism; Islamic terrorism; Jewish terrorism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?178164-1/book-discussion-evil-investigation October 19, 2003] | Lance Morrow | Evil: An Investigation | Evil |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?178806-1/book-discussion-empires-light-edison-tesla-westinghouse October 26, 2003] | Jill Jonnes | Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World | Thomas Edison; Nicola Tesla; George Westinghouse; History of electromagnetism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?178917-1/book-discussion-terrorism-tyranny November 2, 2003] | James Bovard | Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil | Criticism of the War on Terror; Civil liberties in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?178993-1/book-discussion-legacy-paying-price-clinton-years November 9, 2003] | Rich Lowry | Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years | Presidency of Bill Clinton |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179039-1/book-discussion-dude-wheres-country November 16, 2003] | Michael Moore | Dude, Where's My Country? | Criticism of the Iraq War; Enron scandal |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179037-1/book-discussion-breach-trust November 23, 2003] | Tom Coburn | Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders | United States House of Representatives; The Republican Revolution |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179312-1/book-discussion-like-time November 30, 2003] | Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) | Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America | 107th United States Congress |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179455-1/book-discussion-vixi-memoirs-nonbelonger December 7, 2003] | Richard Pipes | Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger | Memoir/Autobiography; Harvard University; Soviet Union–United States relations |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179038-1/book-discussion-americas-women-400-years December 14, 2003] | Gail Collins | America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines | History of women in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179036-1/book-discussion-lincolns-sanctuary-soldiers-home December 21, 2003] | Matthew Pinsker | Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home | President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179671-1/book-discussion-pursuit-happiness-times-war December 28, 2003] | Carl Cannon | The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War | Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; Home front |