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"The Good Rich and What They Cost Us"
Robert Dalzell

Last aired: May 20, 2013

"The Good Rich and What They Cost Us"
"The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority"
Lori Wallach

Last aired: May 12, 2013

"The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority"
"Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity"
Jacqui Dunne; Bernard Lietaer

Last aired: April 27, 2013

"Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity"
"Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth"
Peter Blair Henry

Last aired: April 20, 2013

"Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth"
"Back to Full Employment"
Robert Pollin

Last aired: April 8, 2013

"Back to Full Employment"
"The Devil at Our Doorstep"
David Bego

Last aired: April 8, 2013

"The Devil at Our Doorstep"
"The AIG Story"
Maurice Greenberg

Last aired: March 31, 2013

"The AIG Story"
"Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data"
Charles Wheelan

Last aired: February 11, 2013

"Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data"
"Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope"
Cory Booker; Tina Kelley; Kevin Ryan

Last aired: January 22, 2013

"Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope"
"The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times"
Arlie Hochschild

Last aired: December 30, 2012

"The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times"
"Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence"
William Silber; Paul Volcker

Last aired: December 24, 2012

"Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence"
"The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs"
George W. Bush; James K. Glassman

Last aired: December 23, 2012

"The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs"
"America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy"
James Gustave Speth

Last aired: December 9, 2012

"America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy"
A Conversation on the State of the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz & Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman; Joseph Stiglitz

Last aired: December 1, 2012

A Conversation on the State of the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz & Paul Krugman
"Who Stole the American Dream?"
Hedrick Smith

Last aired: November 11, 2012

"Who Stole the American Dream?"
"Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West"
Ruben Martinez

Last aired: October 7, 2012

"Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West"
"Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget"
David Wessel

Last aired: September 30, 2012

"Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget"
"So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America"
Peter Edelman

Last aired: September 29, 2012

"So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America"
FreedomFest 2012: The Big Debate - "Wall Street on Trial"
Robert Frank; Stephen Moore

Last aired: September 16, 2012

FreedomFest 2012: The Big Debate - "Wall Street on Trial"
"Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles"
Ruchir Sharma

Last aired: August 30, 2012

"Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles"
"The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise"
Arthur Brooks

Last aired: August 26, 2012

"The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise"
"Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy"
Rev. Robert Sirico

Last aired: August 4, 2012

"Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy"
"Finance and the Good Society"
Robert Shiller

Last aired: June 23, 2012

"Finance and the Good Society"
"The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery"
Noam Scheiber

Last aired: May 26, 2012

"The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery"

Book TV Schedule

Highlights

Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart

Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass

Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle

Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld

Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Looking at Iran: The Rise & Fall of Iran in Public Opinion"
James Zogby

Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre

Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson

Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, May 25th

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Simpler: The Future of Government"
Cass Sunstein
11:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead"
Sheryl Sandberg
1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
"Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"
Neil Gross
3pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr.
2013 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Panel on "Coming Home: The Hopes, Fears, and Challenges of Veterans Returning from War"
Col. Jon Coffin (Ret.); Karl Marlantes; Dave McIntyre; James Wright
9pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle

Sunday, May 26th

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler
6:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
"Payback: The Case for Revenge"
Thane Rosenbaum
7:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation"
Eric Deggans
11am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"If You Knew Me You Would Care"
Rennio Maifredi (Photographer); Zainab Salbi
1:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Panel on Good Wars, Bad Wars with Dale Maharidge and Nick Turse
Dale Maharidge; Nick Turse
3:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own"
Mika Brzezinski
6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
10pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick

Monday, May 27th

2am (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
2:30am (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement"
David Graeber
5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Black Russian"
Vladimir Alexandrov
10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir"
Marina von Neumann Whitman
2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
5pm (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Amy Goodman
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre
11:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler

Tuesday, May 28th

2am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 3 min.
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Philip Roth
Philip Roth et al.
4:15am (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
Book TV in London: Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee
4:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
A Conversation with Edward Jay Epstein and Errol Morris
Edward Jay Epstein; Errol Morris
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
"Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward Levi"
Jack Fuller

Upcoming Programs

IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's monthly interview/call-in program with an author featuring his or her body of work.  It's LIVE on the first Sunday of every month.   

Jun 2 Rick Atkinson     http://liberationtrilogy.com/
July 7  Mary Roach       www.maryroach.net
Aug 4  Dr. Ben Carson www.carsonschholars.org
 

You can watch all past In Depths online by using the "Search" function in the upper left hand corner of this website.

FAIRS AND FESTIVALS

Book TV covers many book festivals each year, many of them LIVE.  In 2013, our festival coverage will include book festivals in Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlottesville, New York, Freedom Fest in Vegas, Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, NY, Harlem Book Festival, the Texas Book Festival and Miami Book Fair International in November.  You can watch those we've already covered online.  Find them using the "Search" button in the upper lefthand corner of this homepage.

For a complete list of upcoming book festivals, click on the BOOK FAIRS tab at the top of the page.