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 7, 1996Colin PowellMy American JourneyMemoir/Autobiography; The United States ArmyJanuary 14, 1996William ProchnauOnce Upon a Distant WarThe Vietnam WarJanuary 21, 1996Michael KinsleyBig BabiesPopulismJanuary 28, 1996Carlo D'EstePatton: A Genius for WarGeorge PattonFebruary 4, 1996Dennis PragerThink a Second TimeEssays; JournalismFebruary 11, 1996Lance BanningThe Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal RepublicJames MadisonFebruary 18, 1996Dan Balz and Ronald BrownsteinStorming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican RevivalThe Republican RevolutionFebruary 25, 1996H. W. BrandsThe Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s:Category:1890s in the United StatesMarch 3, 1996Hillary ClintonIt Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach UsAmerican family structureMarch 10, 1996Johanna NeumanLights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?International relationsMarch 17, 1996Clarence PageShowing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and IdentityEssays; Race in the United StatesMarch 24, 1996Robert W. MerryTaking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American CenturyJoseph Alsop; Stewart AlsopMarch 31, 1996Fox ButterfieldAll God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceWillie Bosket; :Category:Violence in the United StatesApril 7, 1996Jean BakerThe Stevensons: A Biography of an American FamilyStevenson familyApril 14, 1996Wayne FieldsUnion of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence:Category:United States presidential speechesApril 21, 1996Robert KaplanThe Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st CenturyEconomic inequality; World distribution of wealthApril 28, 1996David ReynoldsWalt Whitman's America: A Cultural BiographyWalt WhitmanMay 5, 1996David Broder and Haynes JohnsonThe System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking PointPolitics of the United States; Clinton health care plan of 1993May 12, 1996Stanley CrouchThe All-American Skin Game, or the Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of it, 1990-1994Essays; Race in the United StatesMay 19, 1996Michael SandelDemocracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public PhilosophyPolitical philosophyMay 26, 1996Noa Ben Artzi-PelossofIn the Name of Sorrow and HopeYitzhak RabinJune 2, 1996James Thomas FlexnerMaverick's Progress: An AutobiographyMemoir/Autobiography; Historians; George WashingtonJune 9, 1996Christopher MatthewsKennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar AmericaJohn F. Kennedy and Richard NixonJune 16, 1996Albert MurrayBlue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic StatementJazz; Creativity in art; Aesthetics and the philosophy of artJune 23, 1996Seymour Martin LipsetAmerican Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged SwordAmerican exceptionalismJune 30, 1996Glenn SimpsonDirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics:Category:Political corruption in the United StatesJuly 7, 1996Paul GreenbergNo Surprises: Two Decades of Clinton WatchingBill ClintonJuly 14, 1996Ted SorensenWhy I Am a DemocratMemoir/Autobiography; Democratic Party (United States)July 21, 1996Eleanor RandolphWaking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New RussiaRussiaJuly 28, 1996James LardnerCrusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David DurkDavid Durk; The New York Police DepartmentAugust 4, 1996Denis BrianEinstein: A LifeAlbert EinsteinAugust 25, 1996Eleanor Clift and Tom BrazaitisWar Without Bloodshed: The Art of PoliticsNewt Gingrich; Stanley Greenberg; Frank Luntz; Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Sheila Burke; Maxine WatersSeptember 1, 1996Drew Gilpin FaustMothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil WarConfederate States of America; History of women in the United StatesSeptember 8, 1996Donald WarrenRadio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate RadioCharles CoughlinSeptember 15, 1996Lloyd KramerLafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of RevolutionsMarquis de LafayetteSeptember 22, 1996Michael ElliottThe Day Before Yesterday: Reconsidering America's Past, Rediscovering the PresentNostalgia; :Category:1940s in the United States; :Category:1950s in the United StatesSeptember 29, 1996Monica CrowleyNixon off the Record: His Commentary on People and PoliticsRichard NixonOctober 13, 1996Louise BarnettTouched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong CusterGeorge Armstrong CusterOctober 20, 1996David FriedmanHidden Order: The Economics of Everyday LifeEconomicsOctober 27, 1996Paul HendricksonThe Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost WarRobert McNamara; The Vietnam WarNovember 3, 1996Andrew FergusonFools' Names, Fools' FacesEssays; Politics of the United StatesNovember 10, 1996Leon DashRosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban AmericaPoverty in the United StatesNovember 17, 1996Conor Cruise O'BrienThe Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800Thomas Jefferson; The French RevolutionNovember 24, 1996Mikhail GorbachevMemoirsMemoir/Autobiography; The Soviet UnionDecember 1, 1996Robert BorkSlouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American DeclineNew LeftDecember 8, 1996Nell Irvin PainterSojourner Truth: A Life, A SymbolSojourner TruthDecember 15, 1996President Bill ClintonBetween Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st CenturyMemoir/Autobiography; The President of the United StatesDecember 22, 1996David DenbyGreat Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western WorldWestern canon; Homer; Rousseau; Virginia WoolfDecember 29, 1996Stanley WolpertNehru: A Tryst with DestinyJawaharlal Nehru

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