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The Future of Faith
Harvey Cox
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd at 6am (ET)

Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America
Patrick J. Carr
Next air time: Sunday, November 22nd at 3pm (ET)

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Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America Rich Benjamin Last aired: November 15, 2009	Watch Online: Larry Wilmore "I'd Rather We Got Casinos" Larry Wilmore Last aired: November 9, 2009
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming of the Dark Age Maggie Jackson Last aired: November 9, 2009	Watch Online: Julia Angwin "Stealing MySpace" Julia Angwin Last aired: November 8, 2009
Author Interview: Ernest "Fritz" Hollings "Making Government Work" Ernest "Fritz" Hollings Last aired: November 8, 2009	Author Interview: Woden Teachout "Capture the Flag" Woden Teachout Last aired: November 8, 2009
Author Interview: Matthew Corrigan "American Royalty" Matthew Corrigan Last aired: November 7, 2009	Watch Online: Kari Lydersen "Revolt on Goose Island" Kari Lydersen Last aired: November 7, 2009
Watch Online: Oliver North "American Heroes" Oliver North Last aired: November 7, 2009	Author Interview: Aaron Sheehan-Dean "Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War" Aaron Sheehan-Dean Last aired: November 2, 2009
Watch Online: David Baldacci from the NBF Gala David Baldacci 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
Watch Online: John Grisham from NBF Gala John Grisham Last aired: October 31, 2009	Watch Online: Azadeh Moaveni "Honeymoon in Tehran" Azadeh Moaveni 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: 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

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.