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Encore Booknotes: Susan Butler, "East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart" Susan Bulter Last aired: November 14, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Susan Eisenhower, "Breaking Free" Susan Eisenhower Last aired: November 7, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Diane Ravitch, "Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms" Diane Ravitch Last aired: October 31, 2009	An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror Richard Perle Last aired: October 24, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Andrew Sullivan, "Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality" Andrew Sullivan Last aired: October 17, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Neil Postman, "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology" Neil Postman Last aired: October 10, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Philip Short, "Mao: A Life" Philip Short Last aired: October 3, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Kurt Eichenwald, "The Informant: A True Story" - Part 2 Kurt Eichenwald Last aired: September 26, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Irving Kristol, "Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, Selected Essays 1949-1995" Irving Kristol Last aired: September 19, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Kurt Eichenwald, "The Informant: A True Story" - Part 1 Kurt Eichenwald Last aired: September 12, 2009
Encore Booknotes: David Broder, "The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point" David Broder Last aired: September 5, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Douglas Davis, "The Five Myths of Television Power" Douglas Davis Last aired: August 29, 2009
Tell Me A Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television Don Hewitt Last aired: August 22, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Nina Easton, "Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade" Nina Easton Last aired: August 15, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Iris Chang, "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II" Iris Chang Last aired: August 8, 2009	Encore Booknotes: "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" Frank McCourt Last aired: July 25, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Robert McNamara, "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" Robert McNamara Last aired: July 11, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Joyce Appleby, "Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans" Joyce Appleby Last aired: July 4, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Dorothy Rabinowitz, "No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terorrs of Our Times" Dorothy Rabinowitz Last aired: June 27, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Jon Ronson, "Them: Adventures with Extremists" Jon Ronson Last aired: June 20, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June Harrison Salisbury Last aired: June 13, 2009	D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II Stephen Ambrose Last aired: June 6, 2009
Encore Booknotes: James Perry, "A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents -- Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready James Perry Last aired: May 30, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Linda Greenlaw, "The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island" Linda Greenlaw Last aired: May 23, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Sandra Day O'Connor, "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest" Sandra Day O'Connor Last aired: May 16, 2009	Encore Booknotes: "Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It" Gina Kolata Last aired: May 9, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Nan Robertson "The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times" Nan Robertson Last aired: April 18, 2009	Encore Booknotes: David Denby "Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World" David Denby Last aired: April 11, 2009
Encore Booknotes: The Way of the WASP: How it Made America and How it Can Save It, So to Speak Richard Brookhiser Last aired: April 4, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Nat Hentoff "Speaking Freely: A Memoir" Nat Hentoff Last aired: March 28, 2009
Encore Booknotes: John Podhoretz "Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies" John Podhoretz Last aired: March 21, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Milton Friedman "F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom" Milton Friedman Last aired: March 15, 2009
The Writer's Desk Jill Krementz Last aired: March 14, 2009	Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli Maurizio Viroli Last aired: March 7, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Robert Putnam, "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" Robert Putnam Last aired: February 21, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Sylvia Jukes Morris "Rage for Fame: Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce" Sylvia Jukes Morris Last aired: February 14, 2009
Constance Hays, " The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company" Constance Hays Last aired: February 7, 2009	Encore Booknotes: Azar Nafisi "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" Azar Nafisi Last aired: January 31, 2009
Encore Booknotes: Samantha Power "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" Samantha Power Last aired: January 17, 2009	Encore Nooknotes: Jill Ker Conway "When Memory Speaks" Jill Ker Conway Last aired: January 10, 2009
Pickett's Charge in History and Memory Carol Reardon Last aired: January 3, 2009	Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten 1925-1964 Emily Bernard Last aired: January 2, 2009
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Margaret MacMillan Last aired: January 2, 2009	A History of the American People Paul Johnson Last aired: December 27, 2008
Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman, "In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action" Ellen Alderman; Caroline Kennedy Last aired: December 20, 2008	Encore Booknotes: Gerturde Himmelfarb, "The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values" Gertrude Himmelfarb Last aired: November 29, 2008
The Seven Fat Years and How to Do it Again Robert Bartley Last aired: November 22, 2008

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

Senate Health Care Debate Coverage
U.S. Senate
Next air time: Saturday, November 21st, at 10am (ET)
Approx. 11 hr.

2009 National Book Awards
Multiple Authors
Next air time: Saturday, November 21st, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.

2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NONFICTION WINNER - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
T.J. Stiles
Next air time: Saturday, November 21st, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.

After Words: Nomi Prins, author of "It Takes a Pillage" interviewed by Sen. Bernie Sanders
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

The Kennedy Assassination - 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President
Steven Gillon
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd, at 9am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold
Theresa Amato; James Bennett
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.

Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd, at 5:45pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.

The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star
Matthew Continetti
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd, at 6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.

Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd, at 7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.

Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
Craig Shirley
Next air time: Monday, November 23rd, at 2am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, November 21st

8am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States
Herman Obermayer

8:45am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
Carlotta Walls LaNier, "A Mighty Long Way" and Terrence Roberts, "Lessons from Little Rock"
Carlotta Walls LaNier; Terrence Roberts

10am (ET)
Approx. 11 hr.
Senate Health Care Debate Coverage
U.S. Senate

9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
2009 National Book Awards
Multiple Authors

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NONFICTION WINNER - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
T.J. Stiles

Sunday, November 22nd

12am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Nomi Prins, author of "It Takes a Pillage" interviewed by Sen. Bernie Sanders

2am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
Bertrand Patenaude

3am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

4am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States
Herman Obermayer

4:45am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
Carlotta Walls LaNier, "A Mighty Long Way" and Terrence Roberts, "Lessons from Little Rock"
Carlotta Walls LaNier; Terrence Roberts

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
Google Book Search Settlement: Interview with Cecilia Kang, Technology Reporter, Washington Post
Cecilia Kang

6am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
The Future of Faith
Harvey Cox

7am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2009 Southern Festival of Books: Shaun Casey, "The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960"
Shaun Casey

7:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a Perfect Union
David Swanson

9am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
The Kennedy Assassination - 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President
Steven Gillon

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
2009 National Book Awards
Multiple Authors

12pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Peter Schweizer, author of "Architects of Ruin" interviewed by Rep. Michele Bachmann

1pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
John Kenneth White

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Lawrence McDonald; Patrick Robinson

3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America
Patrick J. Carr

4pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

5pm (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
Google Book Search Settlement: Interview with Cecilia Kang, Technology Reporter, Washington Post
Cecilia Kang

5:45pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin

6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star
Matthew Continetti

7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe

8pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
The Kennedy Assassination - 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President
Steven Gillon

9pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Nomi Prins, author of "It Takes a Pillage" interviewed by Sen. Bernie Sanders

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold
Theresa Amato; James Bennett

Monday, November 23rd

12am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Nomi Prins, author of "It Takes a Pillage" interviewed by Sen. Bernie Sanders

1am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Harlow Unger

2am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
Craig Shirley

3am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Nomi Prins, author of "It Takes a Pillage" interviewed by Sen. Bernie Sanders

4am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
The Kennedy Assassination - 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President
Steven Gillon

5am (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
Google Book Search Settlement: Interview with Cecilia Kang, Technology Reporter, Washington Post
Cecilia Kang

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star
Matthew Continetti

6:15am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe

7:30am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin

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IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's long form LIVE interview call-in program with one author discussing his or her body of work. It airs on the first Sunday of every month, beginning at Noon ET. Here's a look at some upcoming guests...

December--Joy Hakim
Joy Hakim, former teacher and former editor and editorial writer at the Virginian-Pilot newspaper (Norfolk, Virginia), is the author of several books including the "A History of US" series (10 volumes). The series received the James A. Michener Prize awarded by the National Council for the Social Studies. Her book, “Freedom: A History of US” was the inspiration for the PBS series which premiered in 2003. For more on Ms. Hakim and her work, visit joyhakim.com.