List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1993

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004. The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author. The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night, and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast(with link totranscript / video) Author Book Subject matterJanuary 3, 1993Michael Davis and Hunter ClarkThurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the BenchThurgood MarshallJanuary 10, 1993Jeffrey BirnbaumThe Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in WashingtonLobbying in the United StatesJanuary 17, 1993P.F. BentleyClinton: Portrait of VictoryBill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992January 24, 1993Robert GilbertThe Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White HouseCalvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness; Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Health of Ronald ReaganJanuary 31, 1993Benjamin SteinA License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the NationMichael MilkenFebruary 7, 1993Jack NelsonTerror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the JewsThe Ku Klux KlanFebruary 14, 1993Nathan MillerTheodore Roosevelt: A LifeTheodore RooseveltFebruary 21, 1993Richard Norton SmithPatriarch: George Washington and the New American NationGeorge WashingtonFebruary 28, 1993Kay MillsThis Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou HamerFannie Lou HamerMarch 7, 1993Alex DragnichSerbs and Croats: The Struggle in YugoslaviaSerbs; Croats; YugoslaviaMarch 14, 1993Paul KennedyPreparing for the Twenty-First Century21st centuryMarch 21, 1993Deborah ShapleyPromise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamaraRobert McNamaraMarch 28, 1993Michael KellyMartyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small WarGulf War; 20th century history of IraqApril 4, 1993Nadine CohodasStrom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern ChangeStrom ThurmondApril 11, 1993Blanche Wiesen CookEleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933Eleanor RooseveltApril 18, 1993Douglas BrinkleyThe Majic Bus: An American OdysseyHistory of the United StatesApril 25, 1993Lisa BelkinFirst, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City HospitalHermann Hospital; Medical ethicsMay 2, 1993Marshall DeBruhlSword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam HoustonSam HoustonMay 9, 1993Charles AdamsFor Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization:Category:History of taxationMay 16, 1993Anna QuindlenThinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the PrivateMemoir/Autobiography; JournalismMay 23, 1993George BallThe Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the PresentIsrael–United States relationsMay 30, 1993Douglas DavisThe Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the MessageTelevision in the United StatesJune 6, 1993J. Bowyer BellThe Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992The TroublesJune 13, 1993David BrockThe Real Anita HillAnita HillJune 20, 1993Howard KurtzMedia Circus: The Trouble with America's NewspapersNewspapers in the United StatesJune 27, 1993George ShultzTurmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of StateMemoir/Autobiography; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; United States Secretary of StateJuly 4, 1993Joel KriegerThe Oxford Companion to Politics of the WorldInternational relationsJuly 11, 1993David HalberstamThe FiftiesUnited States in the 1950sJuly 18, 1993Molly MooreA Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. MarinesMemoir/Autobiography; United States Marine Corps; Gulf War; War journalismJuly 25, 1993David RemnickLenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireDissolution of the Soviet UnionAugust 1, 1993Alexander Brook and Warren H. PhillipsThe Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper EditorNewspapers; Kennebunk, MaineAugust 8, 1993Tom RosenstielStrange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 19921992 United States presidential election; ABC NewsAugust 15, 1993Lewis LaphamThe Wish for Kings: Democracy at BayFederal government of the United StatesAugust 22, 1993Harold HolzerThe Lincoln-Douglas DebatesThe Lincoln-Douglas debatesAugust 29, 1993Peter MacdonaldGiap: The Victor in VietnamGeneral Võ Nguyên GiápSeptember 5, 1993Joseph EllisPassionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John AdamsJohn AdamsSeptember 12, 1993Ronald KesslerThe FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement AgencyThe Federal Bureau of InvestigationSeptember 19, 1993Madeline CartwrightFor the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public SchoolSchool District of Philadelphia; Public education in the United StatesSeptember 26, 1993Malcolm BrowneMuddy Boots and Red SocksMemoir/Autobiography; War journalism; Vietnam WarOctober 3, 1993Peter SkerryMexican-Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityMexican AmericansOctober 10, 1993Alan BrinkleyThe Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American PeopleThe History of the United StatesOctober 17, 1993Christopher HitchensFor the Sake of ArgumentChristopher Hitchens's political viewsOctober 24, 1993William F. Buckley Jr.Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian JournalistMemoir/Autobiography; The National Review; Firing LineOctober 31, 1993Andrew NagorskiThe Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern EuropeEastern EuropeNovember 7, 1993Charles MeePlaying God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the WorldPope Leo I and Attila the Hun; Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France; Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II; Congress of Vienna; Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Yalta Conference; G7November 14, 1993Herbert BlockHerblock: A Cartoonist's LifeMemoir/Autobiography; Editorial cartoonsNovember 28, 1993Betty FriedanThe Fountain of AgeAgeingDecember 5, 1993Margaret ThatcherThe Downing Street YearsMemoir/Autobiography; Premiership of Margaret ThatcherDecember 12, 1993Richard ReevesPresident Kennedy: Profile of PowerJohn F. KennedyDecember 19, 1993John PodhoretzHell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of George H. W. BushDecember 26, 1993Willard Sterne RandallThomas Jefferson: A LifeThomas Jefferson

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