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TV Schedule
for July 30th – August 1st
Open Print Version
July 9th - July 11th
July 16th - July 18th
July 23rd - July 25th
This Weekend on Book TV
Saturday, July 30th
8am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 51 min.
2011 PEN World Voices Festival: The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State
Salman Rushdie et al.
11am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Don Luskin, "I Am John Galt: Today's Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It"
Don Luskin
11:50am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Todd Buchholz, "Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race"
Todd Buchholz
12:40pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Michael Shermer, "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths"
Michael Shermer
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Robert Kaufman, "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine"
Robert Kaufman
2:20pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Arthur Brooks, "The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future"
Arthur Brooks
3:10pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Sally Pipes, "The Truth About Obamacare" and Grace-Marie Turner, "Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America"
Sally Pipes; Grace-Marie Turner
4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
FreedomFest 2011: The Big Debate - Public Unions: Good or Bad for America?
Thea Lee; Stephen Moore
5:15pm (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War"
Robert Rosen
6pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Encore Booknotes: Jon Ronson, "Them: Adventures with Extremists"
Jon Ronson
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues"
Bill Moyers
8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
2011 PEN World Voices Festival Freedom to Write Lecture: Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Joby Warrick, "The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA," hosted by Yochi Dreazen, National Journal Defense Reporter
11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Don Luskin, "I Am John Galt: Today's Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It"
Don Luskin
11:50pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Todd Buchholz, "Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race"
Todd Buchholz
Sunday, July 31st
12:40am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Michael Shermer, "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths"
Michael Shermer
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Robert Kaufman, "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine"
Robert Kaufman
2:20am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Arthur Brooks, "The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future"
Arthur Brooks
3:10am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
FreedomFest 2011: Sally Pipes, "The Truth About Obamacare" and Grace-Marie Turner, "Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America"
Sally Pipes; Grace-Marie Turner
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
FreedomFest 2011: The Big Debate - Public Unions: Good or Bad for America?
Thea Lee; Stephen Moore
5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"
Ralph Nader
8:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
"Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now - Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything"
David Sirota
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
2011 PEN World Voices Festival Freedom to Write Lecture: Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
11:15am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War"
Robert Rosen
12pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
After Words: Sally Jacobs, "The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father," hosted by Ken Walsh, US News & World Report
1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Figures of Speech: First Amendment Heroes and Villains"
William Bennett Turner
2:15pm (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
"The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football"
John Miller
3pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Conversation with American Indian Writers Susan Supernaw and Walter Echo-Hawk
Walter Echo-Hawk; Susan Supernaw
5pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"The Bonus Army: An American Epic"
Thomas Allen; Paul Dickson
6pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 51 min.
2011 PEN World Voices Festival: The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State
Salman Rushdie et al.
9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Joby Warrick, "The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA," hosted by Yochi Dreazen, National Journal Defense Reporter
10pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: A Young Politician's Quest for Recovery in the American West"
Roger Di Silvestro
Monday, August 1st
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Joby Warrick, "The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA," hosted by Yochi Dreazen, National Journal Defense Reporter
1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights"
James Peck
2:15am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
2011 Roosevelt Reading Festival - Susan Dunn, "Roosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party"
Susan Dunn
3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Joby Warrick, "The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA," hosted by Yochi Dreazen, National Journal Defense Reporter
4:30am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War"
Robert Rosen
5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
"The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives"
Steven Levy
7am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Book Expo America: Panel on Feminism in Writing Today
Julie Otsuka; Francine Prose; Karen Russell