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The Idea of Justice Amartya Sen Next air time: Sunday, March 21st at 2:15am (ET)	The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters B.R. Myers Next air time: Sunday, March 21st at 7pm (ET)
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser Michael Scharf; Paul Williams Next air time: Sunday, March 21st at 11pm (ET)	The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations Lee Smith Next air time: Monday, March 22nd at 1am (ET)

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Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War Mark Danner Last aired: March 14, 2010	The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations Lee Smith Last aired: March 13, 2010
China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society Doris Naisbitt; John Naisbitt Last aired: March 6, 2010	The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama Len Colodny; Tom Shachtman Last aired: February 16, 2010
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche Ethan Watters Last aired: February 14, 2010	Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Last aired: February 7, 2010
Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded - and What We Need to Do to Remake Them John Perkins Last aired: February 7, 2010	Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box Madeleine Albright Last aired: February 7, 2010
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser Michael Scharf; Paul Williams Last aired: February 7, 2010	Panel on Withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan Ivan Eland; Peter Galbraith; Charles Pena Last aired: February 6, 2010
Forces of Fortune - The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World Vali Nasr Last aired: February 1, 2010	When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order Martin Jacques Last aired: January 25, 2010
A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa Dominique Lapierre Last aired: January 25, 2010	The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking Kenneth Weinstein Last aired: January 25, 2010
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream Patrick Radden Keefe Last aired: January 24, 2010	Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington Ann Louise Bardach Last aired: January 24, 2010
Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda John Mueller Last aired: January 23, 2010	The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights Irene Khan Last aired: January 18, 2010
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Peter Sis Last aired: January 17, 2010	The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village Dongping Han Last aired: January 10, 2010
The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law Mark Denbeaux (co-editor); Jonathan Hafetz (co-editor) Last aired: January 10, 2010	The Arabs: A History Eugene Rogan Last aired: January 10, 2010
On Compromise and Rotten Compromises Avishai Margalit Last aired: January 3, 2010	Enough to Go Around: Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Darfur Chip Duncan Last aired: December 27, 2009
Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan Ali Eteraz Last aired: December 26, 2009	Panel on Ann Dunham's "Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia" Ann Dunham Last aired: December 20, 2009
Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime Rana Husseini Last aired: December 13, 2009	First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia David Gibbs Last aired: December 6, 2009
The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation Thomas Reed Last aired: December 6, 2009	One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy Allison Stanger Last aired: November 28, 2009
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Jane Goodall Last aired: November 27, 2009	Marked for Death: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places Terry Gould Last aired: November 15, 2009
Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World Jean Sasson Last aired: November 8, 2009	Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran Azadeh Moaveni Last aired: November 2, 2009
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Nicholas Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn Last aired: November 2, 2009	The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable David Cole Last aired: November 1, 2009
Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History John Limbert Last aired: October 26, 2009	The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond Last aired: October 26, 2009
Watch Online: Azadeh Moaveni "Honeymoon in Tehran" Azadeh Moaveni Last aired: October 25, 2009	Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Ahmed Rashid Last aired: October 18, 2009
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday Neil MacFarquhar Last aired: October 18, 2009	Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China Rebiya Kadeer Last aired: October 18, 2009
My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran Haleh Esfandiari Last aired: October 17, 2009	The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget Andrew Rice Last aired: October 4, 2009
In the Graveyard of Empires Seth Jones Last aired: September 28, 2009	Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader Marcela Grad Last aired: September 28, 2009
The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West Dore Gold Last aired: September 27, 2009	Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years Michael Chertoff Last aired: September 26, 2009
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia David Vine Last aired: September 21, 2009	The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days Karen Greenberg Last aired: September 19, 2009
Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI Peter Lance Last aired: September 6, 2009	Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope Elizabeth Roberts; John Roberts Last aired: August 23, 2009
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage Alexandra Harney Last aired: August 9, 2009	The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East Joshua Muravchik Last aired: August 9, 2009
Gay Travels in The Muslim World Michael Luongo (ed.) Last aired: August 2, 2009	Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China Diane Wei Liang Last aired: August 2, 2009
One Second After William Forstchen Last aired: August 2, 2009	American Power and the New Mandarins - 40th Anniversary Talk Noam Chomsky Last aired: August 1, 2009
Iran: Another Intelligence Failure in the Making Robert Baer; Keith Crane; Ali Nader Last aired: July 12, 2009	Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Future of Cuba Reese Erlich Last aired: July 12, 2009
Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It Rachel Ehrenfeld Last aired: July 12, 2009	The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed Michael Meyer Last aired: June 28, 2009
How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida Seth Jones; Martin Libicki Last aired: June 22, 2009	Travel as a Political Act Rick Steves Last aired: June 21, 2009
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work Jimmy Carter Last aired: June 20, 2009	Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World Joel Rosenberg Last aired: June 14, 2009
The Next Hundred Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century George Friedman Last aired: June 13, 2009	The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America Michael Rowan Last aired: June 7, 2009
The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases Ross Donaldson Last aired: June 7, 2009	Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine Jonathan Schanzer Last aired: June 7, 2009
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel Last aired: May 4, 2009	Great Powers:America and the World After Bush Thomas P.M. Barnett Last aired: May 3, 2009
Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law Nonie Darwish Last aired: April 19, 2009	Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror Mahmood Mamdani Last aired: April 19, 2009
Engaging the Muslim World Juan Cole Last aired: April 19, 2009

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. 53 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. 9 min.

The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 2:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 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. 4 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. 51 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.
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. 56 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. 53 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. 22 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. 9 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. 53 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. 22 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 51 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. 9 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. 4 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. 51 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. 4 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. 51 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

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