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C-SPAN Bookshelf — 578 episodes · page 1 of 6
Booknotes+: Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The Cauldron"
Q&A Podcast: Kerry Kennedy, "Ethel"
America’s Book Club: Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis on War, Global Conflict, and Their Bestselling Thrillers
AW: "Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs"
BN+: John Ryan, "America's Trial"
Q&A: Brad Ryan, "Grandma Joy and Me"
Min Jin Lee on “Pachinko,” Her Literary Career & Meeting King Charles
AW: Dad Brain - The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives
BN+: Sam Roberts, "Are They Dead Yet?"
Q&A: Mitch Daniels, "Impatience Is a Virtue"
ABC: Nathaniel Philbrick on the Mayflower, George Washington & the California Gold Rush
AW: "Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco"
BN+: Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Investigative Reporter
Q&A: Zayd Ayers Dohrn, "Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young"
ABC: Scott Turow on Legal Thrillers, Writing & Artificial Intelligence
BN+: Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson"
Q&A: Andrea Mitchell, NBC Chief Washington Correspondent
ABC: David Maraniss on Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Vince Lombardi & Jim Thorpe
AW: The American Way of Welfare
BN+: Jonathan Jordan, "Ike and Winston
Q&A: Kenneth Feinberg, "What Is Life Worth?"
ABC: Susan Page on Queen Elizabeth’s Relationships With 13 U.S. Presidents
AW: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose with Martha Raddatz
BN+: Scott Greenberger, "The Forsaken Founder"
Q&A: 9/11 Oral Histories
ABC: Kai Bird on Roy Cohn, American Scoundrel & American Prometheus
AW: Amazon Labor Union Co-Founder, Chris Smalls
BN+: Joby Warrick, "The Jackal"
New York Times Photographer Doug Mills on Covering the White House
AW: Joanna Stern's Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything
BN+: Paul Taylor, "This Is Getting Old"
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776
After Words: A Woman's-Eye View of the Revolutionary Era
BN+: JD Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy"
Q&A: Historian & Biographer Robert Caro
BN+: John Jenkins, "Summer of '71" – Part 2
Jennifer Levasseur, Space History Curator
BN+: John Jenkins, "Summer of '71" – Part 1
Q&A: Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll, Jr., "Ghosts of Sicily"
BN+: Christine Kuehn, "Family of Spies"
Q&A: Tad Devine, "How the Democrats Screwed Bernie"
ABC: Ben Mezrich on The Social Network, 21, and Turning True Stories into Hollywood Hits
After Words: Managing Chronic Pain with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
BN+: Ted Widmer, "The Living Declaration"
Q&A: Mike Leinbach, Former Space Shuttle Launch Director & Co-Author, "Bringing Columbia Home"
ABC: Michael Beschloss Explores the Revolutionary War, Civil War & 20th Century America
AW: Political Realignment and the "New Right"
BN+: Valerie Fridland, "Why We Talk Funny"
ABC: Geraldine Brooks on Memoir, Fiction & War Reporting
AW: The Politicization of the Justice Department
Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State"
Q&A: David McKean and M. Todd Bennett, "The Flag Was Still There"
ABC: Danielle Allen & Walter Isaacson on the Declaration of Independence
AW: American Struggle with Jon Meacham
BN+: Richard Brookhiser, "The Hero Returns"
Q&A: Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan, "Regime Change"
Mollie Hemingway, "Alito"
ABC: Pulitzer Winner Doris Kearns Goodwin on America’s Greatest Presidents
AW: Screen People - How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency
BN+: Michael Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet"
Q&A: Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing" – Part Two
Kara Swisher on the Future of Technology and Journalism
AW: Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China
David Garrow on Martin Luther King, Jr. & Barack Obama
Q&A: Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing"
ABC: Lois Romano on Mary Todd Lincoln's Life, Legacy and Mental Health
AW: The Future is Peace with Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon
BN+: Lerone Bennett Jr., "Forced Into Glory"
Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory"
David Baldacci on Writing Thrillers and Becoming a Bestselling Author
AW: Suing the NSA and Fighting Digital Surveillance
Lois Romano, "An Inconvenient Widow"
Q&A: Gayle Feldman, "Nothing Random"
Ann Patchett on Writing, Bookstores & Storytelling with David Rubenstein
AW: "Poisoned Ivies" with R-NY Rep. Elise Stefanik
Danny Funt, "Everybody Loses"
Q&A: Lamar Alexander, "Education of a Senator"
AW: The Pilots who Evacuated Ebola Patients in 2014
BN+: Theo Baker, "How to Rule the World"
Q&A: Adam Szetela, "That Book Is Dangerous!"
ABC: Candice Millard Discusses Theodore Roosevelt, James A. Garfield & Winston Churchill
AW: Modern Russian History through the Experiences of its Women
Harvey Mansfield, "Where Harvard Went Wrong"
Q&A: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776
ABC: Heather Cox Richardson on Democracy, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War
AW: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care
Bruce Nichols, "The Emerson Circle"
Q&A: Historian & Biographer Robert Caro
ABC: Douglas Brinkley on America at 250, D-Day, and the Space Race
The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms
Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise"
Q&A: Jean Becker & Tom Collamore, "Don't Tell the President"
ABC: America’s Book Club: Andrew Ross Sorkin in Conversation with David Rubenstein
AW: Palantir's CTO on Rebuilding the American Industrial Base
Antony Beevor, "Rasputin"
Q&A: Howard Mortman, "Extreme Mortman" Podcast Host
ABC: Pulitzer Finalist Alice McDermott Talks Novels and Writing Process with David Rubenstein
AW: What is conciousness? with Michael Pollan
Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"
Q&A: Carla Kaplan, "Troublemaker"