List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1999

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, 1999P.J. O'RourkeEat the RichCapitalism; Economy of Russia; Economy of Sweden; Economy of Tanzania; Economy of Hong KongJanuary 10, 1999John MorrisGet the Picture: A Personal History of PhotojournalismMemoir/Autobiography; PhotojournalismJanuary 17, 1999Dava SobelLongitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeHistory of longitude; John Harrison; Longitude prizeJanuary 24, 1999Michael IgnatieffIsaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah BerlinJanuary 31, 1999Peter Kann and Frances FitzGeraldReporting VietnamThe Vietnam WarFebruary 7, 1999Harold EvansThe American CenturyAmerican CenturyFebruary 14, 1999Virginia PostrelThe Future and Its EnemiesSocial changeFebruary 21, 1999Annette Gordon-ReedThomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American ControversyThomas Jefferson; Sally HemingsFebruary 28, 1999Robert FamighettiThe World Almanac and Book of Facts 1999Reference workMarch 7, 1999Tom BrokawThe Greatest GenerationMilitary history of the United States during World War II; United States home front during World War II; Great Depression in the United StatesMarch 14, 1999Allen WeinsteinThe Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America The Stalin EraHistory of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United StatesMarch 21, 1999Richard ShenkmanPresidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things DonePresident of the United StatesMarch 28, 1999Norman PodhoretzEx-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman MailerMemoir/Autobiography; Neo-Conservatives; Allen Ginsberg; Lionel and Diana Trilling; Lillian Hellman; Hannah Arendt; Norman MailerApril 4, 1999Booknotes 10th AnniversaryN/AExcerpts from and interviews about the first ten years of BooknotesApril 11, 1999Amity ShlaesThe Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About ItTaxation in the United StatesApril 18, 1999Max FrankelThe Times of My Life and My Life with the TimesMemoir/Autobiography; The New York TimesApril 25, 1999Randall KenanWalking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyAfrican AmericansMay 2, 1999Mary SoamesWinston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the ChurchillsWinston Churchill; Clementine ChurchillMay 9, 1999Betty Boyd CaroliThe Roosevelt WomenRoosevelt family; Eleanor Roosevelt; Edith Roosevelt; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Corinne Roosevelt Robinson; Corinne Alsop Cole; Sara Delano Roosevelt; Martha Bulloch Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt CowlesMay 16, 1999T.R. ReidConfucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the WestCulture of JapanMay 23, 1999Jean StrouseMorgan: American FinancierJ.P. MorganMay 30, 1999Bill GertzBetrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American SecurityForeign policy of the Bill Clinton administrationJune 6, 1999Roger MuddGreat Minds of HistoryHistoriography of the United States; Gordon Wood; James McPherson; Richard White; David McCullough; Stephen AmbroseJune 13, 1999Joseph Stevens1863: Rebirth of a Nation1863 in the United StatesJune 20, 1999David KennedyFreedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and WarHistory of the United States (1918–1945); Timeline of United States history (1930–1949)June 27, 1999Jon MargolisThe Last Innocent Year: America in 19641964 in the United StatesJuly 4, 1999Floyd FlakeThe Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps For Achieving Your DreamsMotivationJuly 11, 1999Michael KordaAnother Life: A Memoir of Other PeopleMemoir/Autobiography; Simon & SchusterJuly 18, 1999Michael CottmanThe Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African-American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's PastHenrietta MarieJuly 25, 1999Dan RatherDeadlines & Datelines: Essays at the Turn of the CenturyMemoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS NewsAugust 1, 1999Richard GephardtAn Even Better Place: America in the 21st CenturyMemoir/Autobiography; Economic issues in the United StatesAugust 8, 1999H.W. CrockerRobert E. Lee on LeadershipRobert E. Lee; LeadershipAugust 15, 1999Elizabeth NormanWe Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the JapaneseAngels of BataanAugust 22, 1999David AtkinsonLeaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the EndSupreme Court of the United StatesAugust 29, 1999Mark PendergrastUncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our WorldCoffeeSeptember 5, 1999Leslie ChangBeyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women From the Middle Kingdom to Middle AmericaMemoir/Autobiography; Taipei First Girls' High School; Chinese AmericansSeptember 12, 1999Jay PariniRobert Frost: A LifeRobert FrostSeptember 19, 1999Richard CohenRostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old PoliticsDan RostenkowskiSeptember 26, 1999Linda McMurryTo Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. WellsIda B. WellsOctober 3, 1999James GlassmanDow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock MarketDow Jones Industrial Average; Economic growthOctober 10, 1999Stuart RochesterHonor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973American POWs in the Vietnam WarOctober 17, 1999Witold RybczynskiA Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th CenturyFrederick Law OlmstedOctober 24, 1999Michael KammenAmerican Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th CenturyPopular cultureOctober 31, 1999Patrick TylerGreat Wall: Six Presidents and China, An Investigative HistorySino-American relationsNovember 7, 1999Eugene RobinsonCoal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of RaceMemoir/Autobiography; Race in the United States; Race and ethnicity in BrazilNovember 14, 1999Fred MaroonThe Nixon Years, 1969–1974: White House to WatergateRichard NixonNovember 21, 1999Alfred YoungThe Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American RevolutionGeorge Robert Twelves Hewes; The Boston Tea PartyNovember 28, 1999Winston ChurchillThe Great Republic: A History of AmericaThe United States of America; History of the United StatesDecember 5, 1999Edmund MorrisDutch: A Memoir of Ronald ReaganRonald ReaganDecember 12, 1999Michael Patrick MacDonaldAll Souls: A Family Story from SouthieBostonDecember 19, 1999Robert ConquestReflections on a Ravaged CenturyNazism; History of communismDecember 26, 1999Tom WheelerLeadership Lessons from the Civil WarThe American Civil War; Leadership

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