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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)

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 9pm (ET)

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Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar Scott Conroy; Shushannah Walshe Last aired: November 7, 2009	Essays Wallace Shawn Last aired: November 2, 2009
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea and To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face Robert Churchill; Joshua Horwitz Last aired: November 1, 2009	Ron Paul Book Tour for "End the Fed" Ron Paul Last aired: November 1, 2009
We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism John Derbyshire Last aired: October 31, 2009	Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party Max Blumenthal Last aired: October 25, 2009
2009 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award: Philip Hamburger, author of "Law and Judicial Duty" Philip Hamburger Last aired: October 25, 2009	Whores: How and Why I Came to Fight the Establishment Larry Klayman Last aired: October 25, 2009
Why Are Jews Liberals? Norman Podhoretz Last aired: October 24, 2009	Michael Barone, Co-author, The Almanac of American Politics 2010 Michael Barone Last aired: October 17, 2009
Tahoe Boy: A Journey Back Home Pat Hickey Last aired: October 11, 2009	The Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs Robert Spencer Last aired: October 11, 2009
The Death of Conservatism Sam Tanenhaus Last aired: October 11, 2009	The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Last aired: October 5, 2009
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin Last aired: October 4, 2009	The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege and How We Can Be Safe Again Tom Ridge Last aired: September 28, 2009
Safire's Political Dictionary William Safire Last aired: September 27, 2009	The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) Last aired: September 27, 2009
71 Days: The Media Assault on Obama Michael Jason Overstreet Last aired: September 8, 2009	Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies Michelle Malkin Last aired: September 7, 2009
2009 Book Expo America: Alex Jones, "Losing the News" Alex Jones Last aired: September 6, 2009	Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change Dan Fleshler Last aired: August 22, 2009
The Death of Why: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy Andrea Batista Schlesinger Last aired: August 17, 2009	Catastrophe: How Obama, Congress and the Special Interests are Transforming a Slump Into a Crash, Freedom into Socialism, and a Disaster into a Catastrophe Eileen McGann; Dick Morris Last aired: August 16, 2009
Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple Secure Solution for America Ezekiel Emanuel Last aired: August 9, 2009	The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election Dan Balz; Haynes Johnson Last aired: August 9, 2009
The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity Matt Miller Last aired: July 27, 2009	The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom Robert Levy; William Mellor Last aired: July 12, 2009
Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them Steve Milloy Last aired: July 5, 2009	The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty Helen Knowles Last aired: July 3, 2009
And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America Mary Frances Berry Last aired: June 28, 2009	Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey William Least Heat-Moon Last aired: June 27, 2009
Voting Rights--and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections Abigail Thernstrom Last aired: June 21, 2009	Life Equity: Realize Your True Value and Pursue Your Passions at Any Stage in Life Marsha Blackburn Last aired: June 7, 2009
Renegade: The Making of a President Richard Wolffe Last aired: June 7, 2009	Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces that Put it in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America Russ Baker Last aired: May 11, 2009
The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens E. Fuller Torrey Last aired: May 2, 2009	Book TV Civics Bus - Walter Benn Michaels, "The Trouble with Diversity" Walter Benn Michaels Last aired: April 19, 2009
Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders Jason Riley Last aired: April 5, 2009	The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream John Zogby Last aired: April 5, 2009
United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror Jamie Glazov Last aired: March 29, 2009	Slavoj Zizek, "Violence" and Bernard-Henri Levy, "Left In Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism" Bernard-Henri Levy; Slavoj Zizek Last aired: March 28, 2009
In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington Robert Rubin Last aired: March 15, 2009	Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics John Talbott Last aired: March 8, 2009
So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government Robert Kaiser Last aired: March 2, 2009	This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation Barbara Ehrenreich Last aired: March 1, 2009
The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z Phil Valentine Last aired: March 1, 2009	The Millennials: The Dumbest Generation or the Next Great Generation? Mark Bauerlein; Neil Howe Last aired: March 1, 2009
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life Kathleen Dalton Last aired: February 28, 2009	Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty Ivan Eland Last aired: February 28, 2009
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America Moustafa Bayoumi Last aired: February 23, 2009	The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch Michael Wolff Last aired: February 23, 2009
Rebels All!: A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America Kevin Mattson Last aired: February 16, 2009	Latinos and the Nation's Future Henry Cisneros Last aired: February 16, 2009
A Return to Common Sense: 7 Bold Ways to Revitalize Our Democracy Michael Waldman Last aired: February 9, 2009	The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization Fekkak Mamdouh; Rinku Sen Last aired: February 8, 2009
Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine Marion Nestle Last aired: January 25, 2009	Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Riki Ott Last aired: January 25, 2009
Born Liberal, Raised Right Reb Bradley Last aired: January 25, 2009	Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) Last aired: January 19, 2009
Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents Gil Troy Last aired: January 19, 2009	The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama Last aired: January 18, 2009
The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game Alvin Felzenberg Last aired: January 11, 2009	The Plan: How to Rescue Society When the Oil Stops - or the Day Before Edwin Black Last aired: January 4, 2009
The Price of Racial Reconciliation Ronald Walters Last aired: January 1, 2009	Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America Andrew Gumbel Last aired: December 28, 2008
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence" Robert Bryce Last aired: December 28, 2008	No Room for Democracy: The Triumph of Ego over Common Sense Richard Rosenbaum Last aired: December 22, 2008
The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls David Moore Last aired: December 7, 2008	No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers Michael Novak Last aired: November 30, 2008
The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal Mark Krikorian Last aired: November 23, 2008	Race: A History Beyond Black and White Marc Aronson Last aired: November 22, 2008
Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now Peggy Noonan Last aired: November 15, 2008	All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America John McWhorter Last aired: November 9, 2008
Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis Newt Gingrich Last aired: November 9, 2008	State of Fear Michael Crichton Last aired: November 8, 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.