Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.
| First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) | Author | Book | Subject matter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 4, 2004 | Brenda Wineapple | Hawthorne: A Life | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| January 11, 2004 | Walter Mears | Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning—A Reporter’s Story | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism | |
| January 18, 2004 | John Seigenthaler | James K. Polk | James K. Polk | |
| January 25, 2004 | Nathaniel Philbrick | Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842 | Charles Wilkes | |
| February 1, 2004 | Abigail Thernstrom | No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning | Education outcomes in the United States by race and other classifications | |
| February 8, 2004 | Nikki Giovanni | The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998 | Poetry | |
| February 15, 2004 | Jon Meacham | Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| February 22, 2004 | Kenneth Silverman | Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse | Samuel Morse | |
| February 29, 2004 | George Soros | The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power | Foreign policy of the United States | |
| March 7, 2004 | Richard Perle | An End to Evil | The War on Terror | |
| March 14, 2004 | John Dean | Warren G. Harding | Warren G. Harding | |
| March 21, 2004 | Constance Hays | The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company | The Coca-Cola Company | |
| March 28, 2004 | Michael Dobbs | Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America | Operation Pastorius | |
| April 4, 2004 | Nicholas Capaldi | John Stuart Mill: A Biography | John Stuart Mill | |
| April 11, 2004 | Martin Marty | Martin Luther | Martin Luther | |
| 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 | |
| April 25, 2004 | Christopher Benson | Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America | Emmett Till | |
| May 2, 2004 | Eric Lax | The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle | Penicillin | |
| 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 | |
| May 16, 2004 | John Lewis Gaddis | Surprise, Security, and the American Experience | Burning of Washington | |
| May 23, 2004 | Joseph Califano | Inside: A Public and Private Life | Memoir/Autobiography | |
| May 30, 2004 | Thomas P.M. Barnett | Grand strategy | ||
| June 6, 2004 | Amy Goodman | The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them | Political corruption | |
| June 13, 2004 | Samuel Huntington | Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity | Culture of the United States | |
| June 20, 2004 and June 27, 2004 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar | Joseph Stalin | |
| July 4, 2004 | Alyn Brodsky | Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician | Benjamin Rush | |
| July 11, 2004 | Robert Kurson | Bill Nagle | ||
| July 18, 2004 | Mark Perry | Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America | Ulysses S. Grant | |
| July 25, 2004 | Mario Cuomo | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| August 1, 2004 | John McCain | Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life | Courage | |
| August 8, 2004 | Maureen Dowd | Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk | George W. Bush | |
| August 15, 2004 | Denny Hastert | Speaker: Lessons from 40 Years in Coaching and Politics | Memoir/Autobiography; The U.S. House of Representatives | |
| August 22, 2004 | Dorie McCullough Lawson | Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children | Letters | |
| August 29, 2004 | James Chace | 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs—The Election That Changed the Country | Woodrow Wilson
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| September 5, 2004 | Richard Viguerie | America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power | Conservatism in the United States | |
| September 12, 2004 | George McGovern | The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition | Modern liberalism in the United States | |
| September 19, 2004 | Bryan Burrough | Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 | Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
| September 26, 2004 | Jack Matlock, Jr. | Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended | Ronald Reagan | |
| October 3, 2004 | John Ferling | Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 | John Adams | |
| October 10, 2004 | Hendrik Hertzberg | Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 | Politics of the United States | |
| October 17, 2004 | John McCaslin | Inside the Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops and Shenanigans from Around the Nation's Capital | Politics of the United States | |
| October 24, 2004 | Antony Beevor | The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | |
| October 31, 2004 | Chris Wallace | Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage | Courage
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| November 7, 2004 | Winslow Wheeler | The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security | Military budget of the United States | |
| November 14, 2004 | Stephen Greenblatt | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| November 21, 2004 | Peter Charles Hoffer | Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud – American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin | Historiography | |
| November 28, 2004 | Peter Wallner | Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son | Franklin Pierce | |
| December 5, 2004 | Mark Edmundson | Why Read? | Literature |