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How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood Renaissance
Jacqueline Edelberg; Susan Kurland
Last aired: February 28, 2010
How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood Renaissance
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Last aired: January 24, 2010
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
The Secret of TSL: The Revolutionary Discovery That Raises School Performance
William Ouchi
Last aired: October 19, 2009
The Secret of TSL: The Revolutionary Discovery That Raises School Performance
Spell Albuquerque
Tennessee Reed
Last aired: October 12, 2009
Spell Albuquerque
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities
Patricia Hill Collins
Last aired: July 25, 2009
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities
One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy
David Horowitz
Last aired: June 21, 2009
One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy
Book TV Civics Bus - Mark Bauerlein, "The Dumbest Generation"
Mark Bauerlein
Last aired: June 20, 2009
Book TV Civics Bus - Mark Bauerlein, "The Dumbest Generation"
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
John Taylor Gatto
Last aired: June 14, 2009
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Book TV Civics Bus - Brad Cohen, Front of the Class: How Tourette's Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Brad Cohen
Last aired: June 7, 2009
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
Richard Nisbett
Last aired: May 26, 2009
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right
Richard Rothstein
Last aired: May 10, 2009
Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right
Work Hard. Be Nice.
Jay Mathews
Last aired: April 26, 2009
Work Hard. Be Nice.

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 9:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America
Jon Jeter; Robert Pierre
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 2:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, March 20th
8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Working in the Shadows
Gabriel Thompson
9:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
James McGrath Morris, "Pulitzer: A Life in Politics. Print, and Power" and Michael Wolff, "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch"
James McGrath Morris; Michael Wolff
11am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
2009 Texas Book Festival: Howard Campbell, author of "Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez"
Howard Campbell
11:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Discussion of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
Samuel Fleischacker; Russell Roberts
1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Scott Christianson
2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis
4pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda
Gretchen Peters
4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
Three Days Before the Shooting...
Adam Bradley; John Callahan
6pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Encore Booknotes: Midge Decter "An Old Wife's Tale"
Midge Decter
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America
Jon Jeter; Robert Pierre
8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari
9pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes
10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis

Sunday, March 21st
12:30am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains one of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Molly Caldwell Crosby
1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Working in the Shadows
Gabriel Thompson
2:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
3:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Discussion of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
Samuel Fleischacker; Russell Roberts
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Scott Christianson
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom
8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis
9:30am (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
Tracy Kidder, "Strength in What Remains"
Tracy Kidder
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Kate Pickett; Richard Wilkinson
11am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes
12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Bill & Janet Cohen, "Race & Reconciliation," interviewed by Rep. John Lewis
1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman
3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom
5pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Shane Harris
6pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers
8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Rawn James
9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
10pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman
11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser
Michael Scharf; Paul Williams

Monday, March 22nd
12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 42 min.
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Lee Smith
3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers
5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
Discussion on the Afghanistan War
Seth Jones; Mark Moyar
6:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari
7am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

Upcoming Programs

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.   You can watch previous episodes of In Depth online.  In 2010 so far, Michelle Malkin, Paul Johnson, and T.R. Reid have been our guests.  You can watch those online.

April--John Dean

 

Book Festivals

Book TV will be covering several book festivals this spring, including LIVE coverage of the Tucson Book Festival March 13-14, and the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville later in March.  In April, plans for coverage include the Annapolis Book Festival as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Fair.