List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1999

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Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.[1] The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author.[2] The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night,[3] and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video)		 Author Book Subject matter
January 3, 1999 P.J. O'Rourke Eat the Rich Capitalism; Economy of Russia; Economy of Sweden; Economy of Tanzania; Economy of Hong Kong
January 10, 1999 Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism Memoir/Autobiography; Photojournalism
January 17, 1999 Dava Sobel Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time History of longitude; John Harrison; Longitude prize
January 24, 1999 Michael Ignatieff Isaiah Berlin: A Life Isaiah Berlin
January 31, 1999 Peter Kann and Frances FitzGerald Reporting Vietnam The Vietnam War
February 7, 1999 Harold Evans The American Century American Century
February 14, 1999 Virginia Postrel The Future and Its Enemies Social change
February 21, 1999 Annette Gordon-Reed Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy Thomas Jefferson; Sally Hemings
February 28, 1999 The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1999 Reference work
March 7, 1999 Tom Brokaw The Greatest Generation Military history of the United States during World War II; United States home front during World War II; Great Depression in the United States
March 14, 1999 Allen Weinstein History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States
March 21, 1999 Presidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things Done President of the United States
March 28, 1999 Norman Podhoretz Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer Memoir/Autobiography; Neo-Conservatives; Allen Ginsberg; Lionel and Diana Trilling; Lillian Hellman; Hannah Arendt; Norman Mailer
April 4, 1999 Booknotes 10th Anniversary N/A Excerpts from and interviews about the first ten years of Booknotes
April 11, 1999 Amity Shlaes The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It Taxation in the United States
April 18, 1999 Max Frankel The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times Memoir/Autobiography; The New York Times
April 25, 1999 Randall Kenan Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century African Americans
May 2, 1999 Mary Soames Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills Winston Churchill; Clementine Churchill
May 9, 1999 The Roosevelt Women Roosevelt family; Eleanor Roosevelt; Edith Roosevelt; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Corinne Roosevelt Robinson; Corinne Alsop Cole; Sara Delano Roosevelt; Martha Bulloch Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt Cowles
May 16, 1999 T.R. Reid Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West Culture of Japan
May 23, 1999 Jean Strouse Morgan: American Financier J.P. Morgan
May 30, 1999 Bill Gertz Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security Foreign policy of the Bill Clinton administration
June 6, 1999 Roger Mudd Great Minds of History Historiography of the United States; Gordon Wood; James McPherson; Richard White; David McCullough; Stephen Ambrose
June 13, 1999 1863: Rebirth of a Nation 1863 in the United States
June 20, 1999 David Kennedy Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War History of the United States (1918–1945); Timeline of United States history (1930–1949)
June 27, 1999 The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 1964 in the United States
July 4, 1999 Floyd Flake The Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps For Achieving Your Dreams Motivation
July 11, 1999 Michael Korda Another Life: A Memoir of Other People Memoir/Autobiography; Simon & Schuster
July 18, 1999 The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African-American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past Henrietta Marie
July 25, 1999 Dan Rather Deadlines & Datelines: Essays at the Turn of the Century Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
August 1, 1999 Richard Gephardt An Even Better Place: America in the 21st Century Memoir/Autobiography; Economic issues in the United States
August 8, 1999 Robert E. Lee on Leadership Robert E. Lee; Leadership
August 15, 1999 Elizabeth Norman We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese Angels of Bataan
August 22, 1999 Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End Supreme Court of the United States
August 29, 1999 Mark Pendergrast Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World Coffee
September 5, 1999 Leslie Chang Beyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women From the Middle Kingdom to Middle America Memoir/Autobiography; Taipei First Girls' High School; Chinese Americans
September 12, 1999 Jay Parini Robert Frost: A Life Robert Frost
September 19, 1999 Richard Cohen Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics Dan Rostenkowski
September 26, 1999 To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells
October 3, 1999 James Glassman Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market Dow Jones Industrial Average; Economic growth
October 10, 1999 Stuart Rochester Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973 American POWs in the Vietnam War
October 17, 1999 Witold Rybczynski A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century Frederick Law Olmsted
October 24, 1999 Michael Kammen American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century Popular culture
October 31, 1999 Patrick Tyler Great Wall: Six Presidents and China, An Investigative History Sino-American relations
November 7, 1999 Eugene Robinson Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race Memoir/Autobiography; Race in the United States; Race and ethnicity in Brazil
November 14, 1999 Fred Maroon The Nixon Years, 1969–1974: White House to Watergate Richard Nixon
November 21, 1999 Alfred Young The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution George Robert Twelves Hewes; The Boston Tea Party
November 28, 1999 Winston Churchill The Great Republic: A History of America The United States of America; History of the United States
December 5, 1999 Edmund Morris Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan
December 12, 1999 Michael Patrick MacDonald All Souls: A Family Story from Southie Boston
December 19, 1999 Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century Nazism; History of communism
December 26, 1999 Tom Wheeler Leadership Lessons from the Civil War The American Civil War; Leadership

References[]

  1. ^ "'Booknotes' Afterword". The Boston Globe. 19 August 2004.
  2. ^ Ellen Emry Heltzel (17 August 1997). "Books On TV, and a Host Who Listens". The Sunday Oregonian.
  3. ^ Frank J. Prial (4 December 2004). "After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
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