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The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
W. Ralph Eubanks
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Author Interview: Robert Miller "Native America, Discovered and Conquered" Robert Miller Last aired: November 1, 2009	Author Interview: Aaron Sheehan-Dean "Why Confederates Fought" Aaron Sheehan-Dean Last aired: November 1, 2009
A New Literary History of America Greil Marcus; Werner Sollors Last aired: November 1, 2009	The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business Nelson Lichtenstein Last aired: October 31, 2009
Redcoats' Revenge: An Alternate History of the War of 1812 David Fitz-Enz Last aired: October 31, 2009	2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE - Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City Greg Grandin Last aired: October 25, 2009
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 Gordon Wood Last aired: October 24, 2009	Washington Journal - Lewis Sorley, "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam" Lewis Sorley Last aired: October 24, 2009
The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss Charles Eagles Last aired: October 19, 2009	David Helvarg: "Rescue Warriors: U.S.Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes David Helvarg Last aired: October 18, 2009
John Brown's Trial Brian McGinty Last aired: October 18, 2009	The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell Last aired: October 17, 2009
Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism Roy Harris Jr.; Elizabeth Mehren; Sacha Pfeiffer Last aired: October 17, 2009	The Further Adventures of a Lucky Dog: Owney, U.S. Rail Mail Mascot Dirk Wales Last aired: October 17, 2009
Author Interview: Stephen Beckham "Oregon Indians" Stephen Beckham Last aired: October 17, 2009	That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution Lars Schoultz Last aired: October 12, 2009
This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America John Grisham Last aired: October 12, 2009	A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age Richard Rayner Last aired: October 11, 2009
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War Nicholas Thompson Last aired: October 11, 2009	The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South W. Ralph Eubanks Last aired: October 10, 2009
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride Daniel James Brown Last aired: October 4, 2009	The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta Marc Wortman Last aired: October 4, 2009
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant Carol Berkin Last aired: October 4, 2009	Carlotta Walls LaNier, "A Mighty Long Way" and Terrence Roberts, "Lessons from Little Rock" Carlotta Walls LaNier; Terrence Roberts Last aired: September 28, 2009
How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education That Made Them Daniel Wolff Last aired: September 20, 2009	Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and its Prosecution in Nineteenth Century New York Donna Dennis Last aired: September 20, 2009
A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters' Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home Peter Nelson Last aired: September 20, 2009	Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i Tom Coffman Last aired: September 20, 2009
The American Future: A History Simon Schama Last aired: September 19, 2009	Letters from Black America Pamela Newkirk Last aired: September 14, 2009
Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire Gerard Koeppel Last aired: September 13, 2009	Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent David Clary Last aired: September 13, 2009
Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century Randy Shaw Last aired: September 8, 2009	The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter Jason Kersten Last aired: September 8, 2009
The State of Jones Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer Last aired: September 8, 2009	A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge Josh Neufeld Last aired: September 6, 2009
The War Behind Me: Inside the Army's Secret Archive of Investigations Deborah Nelson Last aired: August 23, 2009	A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight Robert Mrazek Last aired: August 22, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Joseph Lowndes "From the New Deal to the New Right" Joseph Lowndes Last aired: August 17, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Hasan Kwame Jeffries "Bloody Lowndes" Hasan Kwame Jeffries Last aired: August 16, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Miriam Greenberg "Branding New York" Miriam Greenberg Last aired: August 16, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Christopher Capozzola "Uncle Sam Wants You" Christopher Capozzola Last aired: August 15, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Marcia Purcell Marcia Purcell Last aired: August 15, 2009	The Road to Woodstock: From the Man Behind the Legendary Festival Michael Lang Last aired: August 15, 2009
All the News Unfit to Print: How Things Were...and How They Were Reported Eric Burns Last aired: August 10, 2009	Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath Elizabeth Norman; Michael Norman Last aired: July 27, 2009
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Henry Louis Gates Last aired: July 26, 2009	Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban Amerinca Beryl Satter Last aired: July 26, 2009
The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled Vincent Bzdek Last aired: July 26, 2009	Vicksburg, 1863 Winston Groom Last aired: July 26, 2009
1959: The Year Everything Changed Fred Kaplan Last aired: July 26, 2009	The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence Dennis Brindell Fradin Last aired: July 5, 2009
1776 David McCullough Last aired: July 5, 2009	Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Simon Schama Last aired: July 5, 2009
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army Paul Lockhart Last aired: July 5, 2009	Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War Edwin Burrows Last aired: July 5, 2009
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation Nancy Rubin Stuart Last aired: July 5, 2009	Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America David Taylor Last aired: July 5, 2009
Visions of America: Photographing Democracy Joseph Sohm Last aired: July 5, 2009	Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence John Ferling Last aired: July 4, 2009
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation Ray Raphael Last aired: July 4, 2009	The Food of a Younger Land Mark Kurlansky Last aired: June 29, 2009
Book TV Bus - Linda Gugin, "Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography" Linda Gugin Last aired: June 21, 2009	American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon Steven Rinella Last aired: June 21, 2009
Book TV Bus - Susan Levine, "School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program" Susan Levine Last aired: June 20, 2009	Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West Deanne Stillman Last aired: June 15, 2009
Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage Edith Gelles Last aired: June 14, 2009	Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City James Nevius; Michelle Nevius Last aired: May 31, 2009
Book TV Civics Bus - Dennis Judd, "Cities and Visitors" Dennis Judd Last aired: May 30, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Lubna Qureshi "Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende" Lubna Qureshi Last aired: May 30, 2009
Organization of American Historians 2009: Nancy Toff Nancy Toff Last aired: May 30, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Deborah Gershenowitz Deborah Gershenowitz Last aired: May 30, 2009
I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation Bruce Chadwick Last aired: May 26, 2009	Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 Elizabeth Varon Last aired: May 25, 2009
Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing Arnie Bernstein Last aired: May 25, 2009	Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust Edwin Black Last aired: May 23, 2009
Book TV Bus - Eric Arnesen, Editor, "The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation" Eric Arnesen Last aired: May 17, 2009	Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line Martha Sandweiss Last aired: May 17, 2009
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution Richard Beeman Last aired: May 17, 2009	Book TV Bus - Harrison Schmitt, Author, "Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space" Harrison Schmitt Last aired: May 10, 2009
No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings - A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics Robert Shogan Last aired: May 10, 2009	Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History Alan Huffman Last aired: May 10, 2009
The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby Last aired: May 9, 2009	Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War David Williams Last aired: May 3, 2009
A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East - from the Cold War to the War on Terror Patrick Tyler Last aired: May 3, 2009	Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction Douglas Blackmon Last aired: April 25, 2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History and 2008 National Book Award for Non-Fiction Annette Gordon-Reed Last aired: April 25, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Ray Smock "Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow" Ray Smock Last aired: April 20, 2009
Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan Kim Phillips-Fein Last aired: April 18, 2009	A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States Stephen Mihm Last aired: April 4, 2009
Book TV Bus - Mildred Armstrong Kalish "Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression" Mildred Armstrong Kalish Last aired: April 4, 2009	From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 George Herring Last aired: April 4, 2009
Almost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Dream Tanya Lee Stone Last aired: March 30, 2009	Book TV Bus - Peter Golenbock, "In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World" Peter Golenbock Last aired: March 22, 2009
The Irish Americans: A History Jay Dolan Last aired: March 15, 2009	Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans Dan Baum Last aired: March 15, 2009
Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement Ron Robinson Last aired: March 8, 2009	Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace Mark Perry Last aired: March 7, 2009
America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, The Race to the Pole, The Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation Jim Rasenberger Last aired: March 7, 2009	Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee Timothy Egan Last aired: March 2, 2009
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War Robert Roper Last aired: March 2, 2009	The Trial of Standing Bear Frank Keating Last aired: March 1, 2009
Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard Newman Last aired: February 22, 2009	Ark of the Liberties: America and the World Ted Widmer Last aired: February 22, 2009
A Short History of the United States Robert Remini Last aired: February 15, 2009	Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North Thomas Sugrue Last aired: February 9, 2009
How the States Got Their Shapes Mark Stein Last aired: February 8, 2009	Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower Crystal Feimster; Deborah Gray White; Sharon Harley; Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Last aired: February 8, 2009
Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America David Hackett Fischer Last aired: February 7, 2009	The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them Donald Kettl Last aired: February 1, 2009
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature Julia Mickenberg; Philip Nel Last aired: February 1, 2009	48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned in School) Larry Schweikart Last aired: January 31, 2009
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century Howard Blum Last aired: January 26, 2009	Judgment Days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America Nick Kotz Last aired: January 19, 2009
What Would Martin Say? Clarence Jones Last aired: January 18, 2009	The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s Calvin Mackenzie Last aired: January 18, 2009
Book TV Bus - Kevin O'Keefe, "The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen" Kevin O'Keefe Last aired: January 12, 2009	The National Security Council: A Legal History of the President's Most Powerful Advisers Cody Brown Last aired: January 5, 2009
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour Andrei Cherny Last aired: January 4, 2009	We the People: The Story of Our Constitution Lynne Cheney Last aired: January 3, 2009
A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America - One State Quarter at a Time Jim Noles Last aired: January 2, 2009	Ben Bernanke's "Essays on the Great Depression" Last aired: January 1, 2009
Julia Keller "Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel" Julia Keller Last aired: December 27, 2008	The Senator & the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland & Fannie Lou Hamer Chris Myers Asch Last aired: December 25, 2008
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington Jennet Conant Last aired: December 22, 2008	Hurricane of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution Tony Williams Last aired: December 8, 2008
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America Matt Weiland; Sean Wilsey Last aired: December 1, 2008	The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves Andrew Ward Last aired: November 30, 2008
Massacre at Mountain Meadows Glen Leonard; Richard Turley; Ronald Walker Last aired: November 30, 2008	Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History Jan Van Meter Last aired: November 30, 2008
Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine Scott Casper Last aired: November 29, 2008	Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Birthplace of the American Ideal Kenneth Garrett; David McCullough Last aired: November 29, 2008
Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capitol Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army Les Standiford Last aired: November 29, 2008	Washington Post Book Club: Civil War Authors Geraldine Brooks; Drew Gilpin Faust; Walter McDougall Last aired: November 28, 2008
Columbus in the Americas William Least Heat-Moon Last aired: November 27, 2008	In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians Jake Page Last aired: November 27, 2008
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea Noah Andre Trudeau Last aired: November 23, 2008	Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 Patrick Creed and Rick Newman Last aired: November 16, 2008
The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 Sean Wilentz Last aired: November 9, 2008	The Road To Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson Kevin Hayes Last aired: November 9, 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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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.