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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
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th at 3pm (ET)
2013 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Panel on "Coming Home: The Hopes, Fears, and Challenges of Veterans Returning from War"
"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)
Panel on Good Wars, Bad Wars with Dale Maharidge and Nick Turse
Dale Maharidge; Nick Turse
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th at 1:45pm (ET)

Archived Programs

Programs shown in this archive cover the past year. To search for programs in earlier years, please use the search functionality above.

"Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood"
Donovan Campbell
Last aired: May 18, 2013
"Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood"
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
Last aired: May 6, 2013
2013 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Panel on "Coming Home: The Hopes, Fears, and Challenges of Veterans Returning from War"
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Wayne Hsieh, "West Pointers and the Civil War"
Wayne Hsieh
Last aired: April 28, 2013
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Wayne Hsieh, "West Pointers and the Civil War"
"Educating America's Military"
Joan Johnson-Freese
Last aired: April 21, 2013
"Educating America's Military"
"Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War"
Jeffrey Engel
Last aired: February 24, 2013
"Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War"
"National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism"
Melvin Goodman
Last aired: February 23, 2013
"National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism"
"Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present"
Max Boot
Last aired: February 19, 2013
"Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present"
"My Share of the Task: A Memoir"
Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Ret.)
Last aired: February 19, 2013
"My Share of the Task: A Memoir"
"The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War"
Fred Kaplan
Last aired: February 19, 2013
"The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War"
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Aaron O'Connell, "Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps"
Aaron O'Connell
Last aired: February 10, 2013
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Aaron O'Connell, "Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps"
Book TV at Georgetown University: Nancy Sherman, "The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers"
Nancy Sherman
Last aired: January 27, 2013
Book TV at Georgetown University: Nancy Sherman, "The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers"
Book TV at Columbia University: Helen Benedict, "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq"
Helen Benedict
Last aired: January 27, 2013
Book TV at Columbia University: Helen Benedict, "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq"
"Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc - The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe"
Patrick O'Donnell
Last aired: January 19, 2013
"Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc - The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe"
"Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army"
Rachel Cox
Last aired: January 6, 2013
"Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army"
Thomas Ricks, "The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today"
Thomas Ricks
Last aired: January 2, 2013
Thomas Ricks, "The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today"
"War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865"
James McPherson
Last aired: December 31, 2012
"War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865"
"Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr."
Larry Berman
Last aired: December 30, 2012
"Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr."
"SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper"
Howard Wasdin
Last aired: December 26, 2012
"SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper"
"Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat"
Dan Hampton
Last aired: December 26, 2012
"Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat"
"Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War"
Dakota Meyer
Last aired: December 25, 2012
"Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War"
"In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America's Longest War"
Joshua Welle
Last aired: December 24, 2012
"In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America's Longest War"
"The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden"
Mark Bowden
Last aired: November 24, 2012
"The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden"
"The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage"
Eric Greitens
Last aired: November 23, 2012
"The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage"
"All In: The Education of General David Petraeus"
Paula Broadwell; Vernon Loeb
Last aired: November 12, 2012
"All In: The Education of General David Petraeus"
"Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control"
Medea Benjamin
Last aired: September 15, 2012
"Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control"
"The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows"
Brian Castner
Last aired: September 8, 2012
"The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows"
"Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor"
Ben Hellwarth
Last aired: September 7, 2012
"Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor"
2012 Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Ralph Peters, "Cain at Gettysburg"
Ralph Peters
Last aired: September 7, 2012
2012 Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Ralph Peters, "Cain at Gettysburg"
2012 Colby Military Writers' Symposium: James Hornfischer, "Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal"
James Hornfischer
Last aired: September 1, 2012
2012 Colby Military Writers' Symposium: James Hornfischer, "Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal"
2012 Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Barrie Dunsmore, "There and Back: Commentary by a Former Foreign Correspondent"
Barrie Dunsmore
Last aired: August 31, 2012
2012 Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Barrie Dunsmore, "There and Back: Commentary by a Former Foreign Correspondent"
"Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir"
Anthony Swofford
Last aired: August 30, 2012
"Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir"
"Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them"
James Wright
Last aired: August 27, 2012
"Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them"
"Service: A Navy SEAL at War"
Marcus Luttrell
Last aired: August 19, 2012
"Service: A Navy SEAL at War"
Panel on Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks with Chase Madar, Kevin Gosztola, Mark Doten and Ted Hearne
Mark Dotten; Kevin Gosztola; Ted Hearne; Chase Madar
Last aired: August 18, 2012
Panel on Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks with Chase Madar, Kevin Gosztola, Mark Doten and Ted Hearne
Encore Booknotes: Tom Clancy and Gen. Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), "Into the Storm: A Study in Command"
Tom Clancy; Gen. Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.)
Last aired: July 7, 2012
Encore Booknotes: Tom Clancy and Gen. Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), "Into the Storm: A Study in Command"
"Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power"
Rachel Maddow
Last aired: July 4, 2012
"Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power"
"Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops"
Jill Biden
Last aired: July 1, 2012
"Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops"
"Dust to Dust: A Memoir"
Benjamin Busch
Last aired: May 27, 2012

Book TV Schedule

Highlights
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
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. 22 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. 59 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 58 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. 10 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. 11 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Looking at Iran"
James Zogby
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 51 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.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 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
8am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East"
David Rohde
9am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Dennis Prager, author of "Still the Best Hope"
Dennis Prager
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Simpler: The Future of Government"
Cass Sunstein
11:15am (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
2013 Gaithersburg Book Festival: John Turner, "Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet"
John Turner
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
5pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Many Unhappy Returns: One Man's Quest to Turn Around the Most Unpopular Organization in America"
Charles Rossotti
6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Tom Philpott, "Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest Held Prisoner of War"
Tom Philpott
7pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
9pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle
10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
11pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld

Sunday, May 26th
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson
2:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth"
Les Leopold
4am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
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
9am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
10am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
11am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"If You Knew Me You Would Care"
Rennio Maifredi (Photographer); Zainab Salbi
12pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Diana West, "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character"
1pm (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
1:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Panel on Good Wars, Bad Wars with Dale Maharidge and Nick Turse
Dale Maharidge; Nick Turse
3pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II"
John Geoghegan
3:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own"
Mika Brzezinski
5pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
Book Party for John Guntzelman, "The Civil War in Color: A Photographic Reenactment of the War Between the States"
John Guntzelman
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
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
10pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
11pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Looking at Iran"
James Zogby

Monday, May 27th
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
1am (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
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
3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
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
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Black Russian"
Vladimir Alexandrov
9:45am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America"
Laurie Edwards
10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir"
Marina von Neumann Whitman
12pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power"
Victor Navasky
1pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Moises Naim, "The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be," hosted by Lillian Cunningham
2pm (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
Book Party for David Stockman, Author of "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
David Stockman
2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
4pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Larry Elder, author of "Dear Father, Dear Son"
Larry Elder
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
10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson
11:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler

Tuesday, May 28th
1am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
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.