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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming of the Dark Age
Maggie Jackson
Next air time: Sunday, November 8th at 8am (ET)

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Author Interview: Aaron Sheehan-Dean "Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War" Aaron Sheehan-Dean Last aired: November 2, 2009	Author Interview: Woden Teachout "Capture the Flag" Woden Teachout Last aired: November 1, 2009
Watch Online: David Baldacci from the NBF Gala David Baldacci Last aired: November 1, 2009	Watch Online: Oliver North "American Heroes" Oliver North Last aired: November 1, 2009
Watch Online: Judy Blume from the NBF Gala Judy Blume Last aired: November 1, 2009	You Can't Predict a Hero: From War to Wall Street, Leading in Times of Crisis Joseph Grano Last aired: October 31, 2009
Watch Online: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "This Child Will Be Great" Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Last aired: October 31, 2009	Author Interview: Ernest "Fritz" Hollings "Making Government Work" Ernest "Fritz" Hollings Last aired: October 31, 2009
Watch Online: John Grisham from NBF Gala John Grisham Last aired: October 31, 2009	Watch Online: Kari Lydersen "Revolt on Goose Island" Kari Lydersen Last aired: October 31, 2009
Watch Online: Larry Wilmore "I'd Rather We Got Casinos" Larry Wilmore Last aired: October 25, 2009	Watch Online: Azadeh Moaveni "Honeymoon in Tehran" Azadeh Moaveni Last aired: October 25, 2009
Author Interview: Matthew Corrigan "American Royalty" Matthew Corrigan Last aired: October 25, 2009	Burying Don Imus Michael Awkward Last aired: October 25, 2009
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Barbara Ehrenreich Last aired: October 25, 2009	Watch Online: Julia Angwin "Stealing MySpace" Julia Angwin Last aired: October 24, 2009
Watch Online: James McWilliams "Just Food" James McWilliams Last aired: October 18, 2009	Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today Paul Krassner Last aired: October 11, 2009
Watch Online: Malcolm Gladwell "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell Last aired: October 11, 2009	Author Interview: Eugene Zeigler "When Conscience and Power Meet" Eugene Zeigler Last aired: October 10, 2009
Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans Ethan Brown Last aired: October 3, 2009	Author Interview: Paul Cuadros "A Home on the Field" Paul Cuadros Last aired: October 3, 2009
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town Warren St. John Last aired: September 20, 2009	Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis Kari Lydersen Last aired: September 13, 2009
A Better Man: True American Heroes Speak to Young Men on Love, Power, Pride and What it Really Means to Be a Man Kelly H Johnson Last aired: September 6, 2009	Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death Row Survivor Billy Wayne Sinclair; Jodie Sinclair Last aired: August 30, 2009
C-SPAN Lincoln Book Binding Process C-SPAN Staff Last aired: August 23, 2009	Library of Congress Darwin Books Constance Carter Charles Darwin Last aired: August 23, 2009
The Years of Talking Dangerously Geoffrey Nunberg Last aired: August 23, 2009	2009 BookExpo America: Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton Julie Andrews; Emma Walton Hamilton Last aired: August 17, 2009
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town Nick Reding Last aired: August 17, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Paula Kamen "Finding Iris Chang" Paula Kamen Last aired: August 16, 2009
Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal Silas House; Jason Howard Last aired: August 16, 2009	Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness Dean Kuipers Last aired: August 16, 2009
Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America's New Rootless Professional Class Peter Kilborn Last aired: August 16, 2009	Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves Sana Butler Last aired: August 15, 2009
China Underground Zachary Mexico Last aired: August 15, 2009	The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst Kenneth Whyte Last aired: August 9, 2009
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite David Kessler Last aired: August 9, 2009	Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending P.J. O'Rourke Last aired: August 8, 2009
The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists Peter Laufer Last aired: August 2, 2009	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir E. Lynn Harris Last aired: July 26, 2009
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World Michelle Goldberg Last aired: July 26, 2009	I'd Rather We Got Casinos and Other Black Thoughts Larry Wilmore Last aired: July 20, 2009
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street Michael Davis Last aired: July 6, 2009	The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive Marvelyn Brown Last aired: July 4, 2009
Go, Tell Michelle: African-American Women Write to the New First Lady Peggy Brooks-Bertram; Barbara Nevergold Last aired: June 21, 2009	Book TV Bus - Bob Sloan "Bearskin to Holly Fork: Stories from Appalachia" Bob Sloan Last aired: June 20, 2009
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace Ayelet Waldman Last aired: June 14, 2009	Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption Judy Blume; Ronald Cotton; Erin Torneo Last aired: June 8, 2009
What Are You Reading? Michelle Easton Michelle Easton Last aired: June 6, 2009	Book TV Bus - Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History" Marc Leepson Last aired: June 1, 2009
Book TV Bus Vignette: Linda Hall Library of Science, Bruce Bradley, Librarian for the History of Science Bruce Bradley Last aired: June 1, 2009	National Press Club Book & Author Night, Betty Monkman, "The Living White House" Betty Monkman Last aired: May 31, 2009
Book TV Civics Bus - Christine King Farris, "Through it All: Reflections on My Life..." Christine King Farris Last aired: May 30, 2009	What Are You Reading? David Keene David Keene Last aired: May 26, 2009
A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominque Green Thomas Cahill Last aired: May 24, 2009	The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement W. Keith Campbell; Jean Twenge Last aired: May 24, 2009
Book TV Bus - Diane Eickhoff, "Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols And the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights" Diane Eickhoff Last aired: May 17, 2009	The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 Helene Cooper et al. Last aired: May 17, 2009
Book TV Video Blog: George Herring Book Talk George Herring Last aired: May 10, 2009	Notes From No Man's Land Eula Biss Last aired: May 10, 2009
God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge Last aired: May 10, 2009	Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets Cadillac Man Last aired: May 10, 2009
Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion Roberta Green Ahmanson; Lela Gilbert; Paul Marshall Last aired: May 3, 2009	Book TV Civics Bus - Melissa Fay Greene, "There Is No Me Without You" Melissa Fay Greene Last aired: May 3, 2009
Robert Earle, What Are You Reading? Robert Earle Last aired: May 3, 2009	What Are You Reading? Bay Buchanan Bay Buchanan Last aired: April 26, 2009
Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine Ted Conover; Jeff Sharlet; Ken Silverstein; Bill Wasik Last aired: April 19, 2009	Book TV Civics Bus - Jedwin Smith, "Our Brother's Keeper" Jedwin Smith Last aired: April 12, 2009
Book TV Bus - James St. Clair, Co-author, "Sherman Minton: Neal Deal Senator, Cold War Justice" James St. Clair Last aired: April 6, 2009	With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America Douglas Hicks Last aired: April 4, 2009
Church of Lies Flora Jessop Last aired: April 4, 2009	Book TV Bus - Ronald Hatzenbuehler, Author, "I Tremble for My Country: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry" Ronald Hatzenbuehler Last aired: March 29, 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell Last aired: March 29, 2009	Book TV Video Blog: Robert Mrazek Robert Mrazek Last aired: March 29, 2009
Book TV Bus - Diana Washington Valdez: Harvest of Women Diana Washington Valdez Last aired: March 22, 2009	Book TV Bus - John Hagedorn, "A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture" John Hagedorn Last aired: March 22, 2009
Book TV Bus - Bob Sloan "Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there " Bob Sloan (Contributor) Last aired: March 21, 2009	Book TV Bus - Jack Bass, Co-author, "Strom: The Complicated Personal And Political Life of Strom Thumond" Jack Bass Last aired: March 9, 2009
Book TV Bus - Molly Caldwell Crosby "The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History" Molly Caldwell Crosby Last aired: March 7, 2009	Book TV Bus - Sharon Robinson, "Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America" Sharon Robinson Last aired: March 7, 2009
Book TV Bus - Phyllis Tickle, "Prayer Is a Place: America's Religious Landscape Observed" Phyllis Tickle Last aired: March 1, 2009	Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream Adam Shepard Last aired: February 28, 2009
What Are You Reading? Barbara Meade Barbara Meade Last aired: February 21, 2009	Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation David Denby Last aired: February 16, 2009
Sweet Release: The Last Step to Black Freedom James Davison, Jr. Last aired: February 8, 2009	Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor Kath Weston Last aired: February 1, 2009
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness Alice Walker Last aired: February 1, 2009	Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff Fred Pearce Last aired: January 11, 2009
Strength and Compassion Eric Greitens Last aired: January 11, 2009	Hollywood's White House & The West Wing Peter Rollins, ed. Last aired: January 4, 2009
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof: Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences, With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory Roy Blount Jr. Last aired: December 29, 2008	The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby Last aired: December 26, 2008
"Pressure is a Privilege" Billie Jean King Last aired: December 26, 2008	Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (Ret.) Last aired: December 15, 2008
Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes John Siceloff Last aired: December 1, 2008	Book TV Bus - Davitt McAteer, Monogah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monogah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in U.S. History Davitt McAteer Last aired: December 1, 2008
Book TV Bus - Diane Glancy, "Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea" Diane Glancy Last aired: November 30, 2008	Orange County: A Personal History Gustavo Arellano Last aired: November 24, 2008
Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross country search for a greener future Greg Melville Last aired: November 24, 2008	Book TV Bus - Alex Kershaw, "Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew" Alex Kershaw Last aired: November 10, 2008

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

After Words: Harry Maclean author of "The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption" interviewed by Richard Howorth owner of Square Books and former mayor of Oxford, Mississippi
Next air time: Saturday, November 7th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.

One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
Allison Stanger
Next air time: Sunday, November 8th, at 11am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.

Kennedy and the Berlin Wall
W.R. Smyser
Next air time: Saturday, November 7th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.

Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War
Romesh Ratnesar
Next air time: Saturday, November 7th, at 2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.

Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
Max Cleland
Next air time: Saturday, November 7th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.

Anne Heller, "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" and Jennifer Burns, "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"
Jennifer Burns; Anne Heller
Next air time: Sunday, November 8th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.

America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty
Jerome Corsi
Next air time: Sunday, November 8th, at 2pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Andrew Sorkin
Next air time: Sunday, November 8th, at 3pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe
Next air time: Saturday, November 7th, at 8am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, November 7th

8am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe

9am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 57 min.
In Depth: Temple Grandin

12pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War
James David Robenalt

1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
Kennedy and the Berlin Wall
W.R. Smyser

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War
Romesh Ratnesar

4pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Listen Up, Mr. President
Craig Crawford; Helen Thomas

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
A Moveable Feast
Adam Gopnik; Ernest Hemingway; Sean Hemingway; Diane Johnson

6pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Encore Booknotes: Susan Eisenhower, "Breaking Free"
Susan Eisenhower

7pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
Jean Sasson

8pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
Max Cleland

9pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
After Words: Harry Maclean author of "The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption" interviewed by Richard Howorth owner of Square Books and former mayor of Oxford, Mississippi

11:15pm (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Nicholas Christakis; James Fowler

Sunday, November 8th

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
Anne Heller, "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" and Jennifer Burns, "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"
Jennifer Burns; Anne Heller

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Brother West: Living and Loving Outloud, A Memoir
Cornel West

2am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
Kennedy and the Berlin Wall
W.R. Smyser

3:30am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War
Romesh Ratnesar

5am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
Jean Sasson

6am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
W. Ralph Eubanks

7am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
Max Cleland

8am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming of the Dark Age
Maggie Jackson

9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
Anne Heller, "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" and Jennifer Burns, "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"
Jennifer Burns; Anne Heller

10:30am (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Listen Up, Mr. President
Craig Crawford; Helen Thomas

11am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
Allison Stanger

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
After Words: John Fleming, "The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War" interviewed by Amity Shlaes

1pm (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Nicholas Christakis; James Fowler

2pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty
Jerome Corsi

3pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Andrew Sorkin

4pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe

5pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
Max Cleland

6pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
2009 Texas Book Festival: Frank Luntz, "What Americans Really Want...Really: The Truth about Our Hopes, Dreams, and Fears"
Frank Luntz

6:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
Anne Heller, "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" and Jennifer Burns, "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"
Jennifer Burns; Anne Heller

8pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
Brother West: Living and Loving Outloud, A Memoir
Cornel West

9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
After Words: Harry Maclean author of "The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption" interviewed by Richard Howorth owner of Square Books and former mayor of Oxford, Mississippi

10pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty
Jerome Corsi

11pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
Allison Stanger

Monday, November 9th

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
After Words: Harry Maclean author of "The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption" interviewed by Richard Howorth owner of Square Books and former mayor of Oxford, Mississippi

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
2009 Texas Book Festival: Frank Luntz, "What Americans Really Want...Really: The Truth about Our Hopes, Dreams, and Fears"
Frank Luntz

2am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty
Jerome Corsi

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
After Words: Harry Maclean author of "The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption" interviewed by Richard Howorth owner of Square Books and former mayor of Oxford, Mississippi

4am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming of the Dark Age
Maggie Jackson

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
Kennedy and the Berlin Wall
W.R. Smyser

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Andrew Sorkin

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Upcoming Programs

MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL

Book TV will be live at the 26th annual Miami Book Fair International, November 14th and 15th. The week-long event includes evenings with award-winning authors of all genres and a three-day street festival.
Book TV will feature former Vice President Al Gore, presidential confidante and historian Taylor Branch, and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder on Saturday. Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and editor-at-large of Commentary magazine Norman Podhoretz (Pod-HOR-etz) will headline Sunday's coverage, with call-in programs scheduled for both. A politics and culture panel Sunday will include Editor of the New York Times Book Review Sam Tanenhaus, Chris Hedges and George Packer.
Join us live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday on C-SPAN2. For more information, www.booktv.org

NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

Book TV will be taping the National Book Awards on Wednesday, November 18, and airing the program the following weekend. Sponsored by the National Book Foundation, awards are given in many categories, including best nonfiction and fiction books of the year. Two of the nonfiction finalists have been covered by Book TV, and you can watch those programs online under our "Featured Video" section. www.nationalbook.org

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.