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C-SPAN Bookshelf — 578 episodes · page 5 of 6
Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director
AW: Ernesto Londoño, "Trippy - The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics"
BN+: Garrett Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive"
Q&A: George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"
AW: Shefali Luthra, "Undue Burden - Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America"
AB: Andrea Fleck-Nisbet on Independent Book Publishing
BN+: Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"
Q&A: World War II Veterans Steve Ellis & Rolf Slen
AW: Mike Hixenbaugh, "They Came for the Schools"
BN+: Glenn Loury, "Late Admissions"
Q&A: Betty Koed, "Scenes"
BN+: Alan Taylor, "American Civil Wars"
Q&A: Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"
AW: Jim Wallis, "The False White Gospel"
BN+: Craig Whitlock, "Fat Leonard"
Q&A: Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife"
AW: Johann Hari, "Magic Pill"
AB: Children's Book Author Jonah Winter on Censorship
BN+: Larry Tye, "The Jazzmen"
Q&A: Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"
AW: David Sanger, "New Cold Wars"
BN+: Carolyn Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain"
Q&A: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"
AW: Susan Page, "The Rulebreaker - The Life and Times of Barbara Walters"
AB: Publishing Analyst Brenna Connor on Book Sales in 2024
BN+: Joseph Epstein, "Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life"
Q&A: Zachary Treitz & Christian Hansen, "American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders"
AW: Eddie Glaude, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"
BN+: Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series
Q&A: Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"
AW: Batya Ungar-Sargon "Second Class"
AB: Danny Heitman on Rereading the Classics
BN+: Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"
Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"
AW: Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War"
BN+: Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"
Q&A: Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"
AW: Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"
AB: Jonathan Karp on 100 years of Simon & Schuster
BN+: Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"
Q&A: Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"
AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"
BN+: Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"
Q&A: Rob Henderson, "Troubled"
AW: Jane Marie, "Selling the Dream"
AB: 2024 Spring Book Preview
BN+: James Traub, "True Believer"
Q&A: Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"
AW: Dr. Elizabeth Comen, "All in Her Head"
BN+: Peter Englund, "November 1942"
Q&A: Katie Rogers, "American Woman"
AW: Kara Swisher, "Burn Book - A Tech Love Story"
Tony Lyons of Skyhorse Publishing
BN+: Jim Trusty, Defense Attorney
Q&A: Patti Davis, "Dear Mom and Dad"
AW: Marie Arana, "LatinoLand - A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority"
BN+: Glenn Kirschner, Former Federal Prosecutor & "Justice Matters" Host
Q&A: Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates
AW: Andrew Curran, "Who’s Black and Why?"
AB: Daniel Paisner on Ghostwriting
BN+: Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg"
Q&A: Charles Scribner III, "Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing"
AW: Coleman Hughes, "The End of Race Politics"
BN+: Benn Steil, "The World That Wasn't"
QA: Sebastian Thrun, AI Pioneer & Tech Entrepreneur
AW: Ijeoma Oluo, "Be a Revolution"
AB: Mary Beth Tinker on Book Bans & Free Speech
BN: H.W. Brands, "Founding Partisans"
QA: Betty Koed, "Scenes"
AW: Donald McNeil, "The Wisdom of Plagues - Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics"
BN: Ep 150 Nigel Hamilton, "FDR at War" Trilogy
AW: David Stockman, "Trump's War on Capitalism"
AB: Brad Meltzer's Ordinary People Change the World Series
BN: Kira Anne West, Defense Attorney
AW: Rachel Slade, "Making It in America"
BN: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife"
Q&A: Cassandra Good, "First Family"
AW: Peter Biskind, "Pandora's Box - How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV"
AB: John Sargent, "Turning Pages"
BN: Ross Perot on His Life & Career
Q&A: Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"
BONUS EPISODE: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen
BN: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "How Do We Get Out of Here?"
Q&A: Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for a Reason"
BN: Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear"
Q&A: Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"
AW: Tim Alberta "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory"
BN: Michael Bryant (Co-Editor), "Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust"
Q&A: Daryl Davis, Musician & Author
AW: Jeff Horwitz, "Broken Code Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets"
AB: Transit Books with Adam Levy
BN: McKay Coppins, "Romney"
Q&A: Erik Larson, "In the Garden of Beasts"
AW: Jennifer Burns, "Milton Friedman - The Last Conservative"
BN: Historians Douglas Brinkley, Joanne Freeman, Edna Medford and H.W. Brands on the Experiment of Democracy in America
Q&A: Jesse Holland, "The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House"
BN: Sarah Ogilvie, "The Dictionary People"
Q&A: Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence.”
AW: Fei-Fei Li, "The World's I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI"
BTSA: "The Words of Cesar Chavez" with historian Miriam Pawl