List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2004
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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/?179670-1/book-discussion-hawthorne-life January 4, 2004] | Brenda Wineapple | Hawthorne: A Life | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179856-1/book-discussion-deadlines-past January 11, 2004] | Walter Mears | Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning—A Reporter’s Story | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179318-1/john-seigenthaler-james-k-polk January 18, 2004] | John Seigenthaler | James K. Polk | James K. Polk |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179909-1/book-discussion-sea-glory-voyage-discovery January 25, 2004] | Nathaniel Philbrick | Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842 | Charles Wilkes; The United States Exploring Expedition |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179913-1/book-discussion-excuses-closing-racial-gap-education February 1, 2004] | Abigail Thernstrom | No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning | Education outcomes in the United States by race and other classifications |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179911-1/book-discussion-collected-poetry-nikki-giovanni February 8, 2004] | Nikki Giovanni | The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998 | Poetry |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179761-1/book-discussion-franklin-winston February 15, 2004] | Jon Meacham | Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship | Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Special Relationship |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179914-1/book-discussion-lightning-man-samuel-fb-morse February 22, 2004] | Kenneth Silverman | Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse | Samuel Morse |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?180744-1/book-discussion-bubble-american-supremacy February 29, 2004] | George Soros | The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power | Foreign policy of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?180820-1/book-discussion-end-evil March 7, 2004] | Richard Perle | An End to Evil | The War on Terror |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179807-1/book-discussion-warren-g-harding March 14, 2004] | John Dean | Warren G. Harding | Warren G. Harding |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181013-1/book-discussion-real-thing-cocacola-company March 21, 2004] | Constance Hays | The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company | The Coca-Cola Company |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181143-1/book-discussion-saboteurs-nazi-raid-america March 28, 2004] | Michael Dobbs | Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America | Operation Pastorius |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181230-1/book-discussion-john-stuart-mill-biography April 4, 2004] | Nicholas Capaldi | John Stuart Mill: A Biography | John Stuart Mill |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181244-1/book-discussion-martin-luther April 11, 2004] | Martin Marty | Martin Luther | Martin Luther |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181339-1/book-discussion-perfectly-legal-covert-campaign-rig-tax-system April 18, 2004] | David Cay Johnston | Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich – and Cheat Everyone Else | Taxation in the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181452-1/book-discussion-death-innocence April 25, 2004] | Christopher Benson | Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America | Emmett Till |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181639-1/book-discussion-mold-dr-floreys-coat May 2, 2004] | Eric Lax | The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle | Penicillin |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181736-1/book-discussion-deliberate-speed-brown-v-board-education May 9, 2004] | Charles Ogletree | All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education | Brown v. Board of Education |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181826-1/book-discussion-surprise-security-american-experience May 16, 2004] | John Lewis Gaddis | Surprise, Security, and the American Experience | Burning of Washington; Attack on Pearl Harbor; September 11 attacks |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181902-1/book-discussion-inside-public-private-life May 23, 2004] | Joseph Califano | Inside: A Public and Private Life | Memoir/Autobiography |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182064-1/book-discussion-pentagons-new-map May 30, 2004] | Thomas P.M. Barnett | The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century | Grand strategy; Foreign policy of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182109-1/book-discussion-exception-rulers June 6, 2004] | Amy Goodman | The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them | Political corruption; Corruption in the United States; Concentration of media ownership |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181499-1/book-discussion-americas-national-identity June 13, 2004] | Samuel Huntington | Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity | Culture of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182346-1/stalin-court-red-tsar-part-1 June 20, 2004] and [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182346-2/stalin-court-red-tsar-part-2 June 27, 2004] | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar | Joseph Stalin |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?180836-1/book-discussion-benjamin-rush-patriot-physician July 4, 2004] | Alyn Brodsky | Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician | Benjamin Rush |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?180056-1/book-discussion-shadow-divers-true-adventure July 11, 2004] | Robert Kurson | Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II | Bill Nagle; John Chatterton; Underwater diving; German submarine U-869 |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182749-1/book-discussion-grant-twain July 18, 2004] | Mark Perry | Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America | Ulysses S. Grant; Mark Twain |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182510-1/book-discussion-lincoln-matters July 25, 2004] | Mario Cuomo | Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever | Abraham Lincoln |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182450-1/book-discussion-courage-matters-way-braver-life August 1, 2004] | John McCain | Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life | Courage |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182785-1/book-discussion-bushworld-enter-risk August 8, 2004] | Maureen Dowd | Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk | George W. Bush |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182786-1/book-discussion-speaker August 15, 2004] | Denny Hastert | Speaker: Lessons from 40 Years in Coaching and Politics | Memoir/Autobiography; The U.S. House of Representatives |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182057-1/book-discussion-posterity-letters-great-americans-children August 22, 2004] | Dorie McCullough Lawson | Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children | Letters |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183270-1/book-discussion-1912-wilson-roosevelt-taft-debs August 29, 2004] | James Chace | 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs—The Election That Changed the Country | Woodrow Wilson; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Eugene Debs; United States presidential election of 1912 |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?177423-1/book-discussion-americas-right-turn September 5, 2004] | Richard Viguerie | America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power | Conservatism in the United States; Advertising mail; Conservative talk radio |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182096-1/book-discussion-essential-america-founders-liberal-tradition September 12, 2004] | George McGovern | The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition | Modern liberalism in the United States; Founding Fathers of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?182554-1/book-discussion-public-enemies-americas-greatest-crime-wave September 19, 2004] | Bryan Burrough | Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 | Federal Bureau of Investigation; :Category:American gangsters of the interwar period |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183023-1/book-discussion-reagan-gorbachev-cold-war-ended September 26, 2004] | Jack Matlock, Jr. | Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended | Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev; Cold War (1985–1991) |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183137-1/book-discussion-adams-vs-jefferson-election-1800 October 3, 2004] | John Ferling | Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 | John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; United States Presidential election of 1800 |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183651-1/book-discussion-politics-observations-arguments-19662004 October 10, 2004] | Hendrik Hertzberg | Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 | Politics of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?181421-1/book-discussion-inside-beltway-offbeat-stories October 17, 2004] | John McCaslin | Inside the Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops and Shenanigans from Around the Nation's Capital | Politics of the United States; The Washington Times |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?179699-1/book-discussion-mystery-olga-chekhova October 24, 2004] | Antony Beevor | The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183652-1/book-discussion-character-profiles-presidential-courage October 31, 2004] | Chris Wallace | Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage | Courage; Whiskey Rebellion; Emancipation Proclamation; Pullman Strike; Second Bank of the United States; Impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969 and The Great Society; Virginius Affair; Treaty of Portsmouth; The League of Nations; 1972 Nixon visit to China; Reagan Doctrine; Embargo Act of 1807; Lend-Lease; Berlin Airlift; Bay of Pigs Invasion; George W. Bush and the Iraq War |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183797-1/book-discussion-wastrels-defense November 7, 2004] | Winslow Wheeler | The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security | Military budget of the United States |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183799-1/book-discussion-will-world-shakespeare November 14, 2004] | Stephen Greenblatt | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?183682-1/book-discussion-past-imperfect-facts-fictions-frauds November 21, 2004] | Peter Charles Hoffer | Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud – American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin | Historiography; Historical method; Plagiarism; Stephen Ambrose; Michael Bellesiles; Joseph Ellis; Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?184075-1/book-discussion-franklin-pierce-new-hampshires-favorite-son November 28, 2004] | Peter Wallner | Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son | Franklin Pierce |
| [http://www.c-span.org/video/?184076-1/book-discussion-read December 5, 2004] | Mark Edmundson | Why Read? | Literature |