List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1991

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)		AuthorBookSubject matter
January 6, 1991Ben WattenbergThe First Universal NationMemoir/Autobiography; The United States of America
January 13, 1991Daniel RoosThe Machine That Changed the WorldThe Automobile; Alfred P. Sloan; General Motors; The Ford Motor Company; Toyota
January 27, 1991Daniel YerginThe Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and PowerThe Petroleum industry
February 3, 1991Carl RowanBreaking BarriersMemoir/Autobiography; Race in the United States
February 10, 1991Father Theodore HesburghGod, Country, Notre DameMemoir/Autobiography; The University of Notre Dame
February 17, 1991Ronald BrownsteinThe Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood–Washington ConnectionCinema of the United States; Motion Picture Association of America; Lobbying in the United States
February 24, 1991Robert KuttnerThe End of Laissez-FaireRonald Reagan; History of the United States (1980–1991)
March 3, 1991Haynes JohnsonSleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan YearsRonald Reagan; History of the United States (1980–1991)
March 10, 1991Georgie Anne GeyerGuerrilla PrinceFidel Castro
March 17, 1991Leonard GoldensonBeating the OddsAmerican Broadcasting Company
March 24, 1991Richard BrookhiserThe Way of the WASP: How It Made America and How It Can Save It... So to SpeakWhite Anglo-Saxon Protestants
March 31, 1991Dayton DuncanGrass Roots: One Year in the Life of the New Hampshire Presidential PrimaryNew Hampshire primary; Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1988; Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1988
April 7, 1991Tom WickerOne of Us: Richard Nixon and the American DreamRichard Nixon
April 14, 1991William Strauss and Neil HoweGenerations: The History of America's Future, 1584–2069Strauss–Howe generational theory
April 21, 1991Robert ShoganThe Riddle of PowerLeadership; Powers of the President of the United States; Harry Truman; Dwight Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; George H.W. Bush
April 28, 1991Caroline Kennedy and Ellen AldermanIn Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in ActionUnited States Bill of Rights
May 5, 1991Nick LemannThe Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed AmericaSecond Great Migration (African American)
May 12 and May 19, 1991Lou CannonPresident Reagan: A Role of a LifetimeRonald Reagan
May 24, 1991Lewis Puller, Jr.Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis Puller, Jr.Memoir/Autobiography; Chesty Puller; United States Marine Corps; The Vietnam War
May 26, 1991Robert ReichThe Work of NationsGlobalization; Capitalism
June 2, 1991Robert KaiserWhy Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His FailureMikhail Gorbachev
June 9, 1991George Friedman and Merideth LeBardThe Coming War with JapanJapan – United States relations
June 16, 1991Dixy Lee RayTrashing the Planet: How Science Can Help with Problems Like Acid Rain and Nuclear Waste and Depletion of the OzoneEnvironmental skepticism
June 23, 1991Bob WoodwardThe CommandersThe Joint Chiefs of Staff; The Pentagon; United States invasion of Panama; The Gulf War
June 30, 1991Roger GittinesConsequences: John G. Tower, A Personal and Political MemoirJohn Tower
July 7, 1991Donald RitchiePress GalleryHistory of American newspapers
July 14, 1991Michael BeschlossThe Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963John F. Kennedy; Nikita Khrushchev; The Cold War
July 21, 1991Alan EhrenhaltThe United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power and the Pursuit of OfficePolitics of the United States
July 28, 1991Clark CliffordCounsel to the President: A MemoirMemoir/Autobiography
August 4, 1991Elaine SciolinoThe Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf CrisisSaddam Hussein; Iraq
August 11, 1991Len Colodny and Robert GettlinSilent Coup: The Removal of a PresidentResignation of Richard Nixon; John Dean; Alexander Haig
August 18, 1991Liz TrottaFighting for Air: In the Trenches with Television NewsUnited States television news
August 25, 1991E.J. Dionne, JrWhy Americans Hate PoliticsPolitics of the United States
September 1, 1991Andrew Cockburn and Leslie CockburnDangerous LiaisonsIsraeli Intelligence Community
September 8, 1991Liva BakerThe Justice from Beacon HillOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
September 15, 1991Reuven FrankOut of Thin Air: The Brief Wonderful Life of Network NewsUnited States television news; NBC News
September 22, 1991Robert DallekLone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908–1960Lyndon Johnson
September 29, 1991Stephen CarterReflections of an Affirmative Action BabyAffirmative Action
October 6, 1991Ken AulettaThree Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their WayUnited States television news
October 20, 1991Anthony LewisMake No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First AmendmentNew York Times Co. v. Sullivan; First Amendment to the United States Constitution
October 27, 1991Don OberdorferThe Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era, The United States and the Soviet Union 1983–1990Soviet Union – United States relations
November 3, 1991Larry SabatoFeeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism has Transformed American PoliticsPolitics of the United States
November 10, 1991Tina RosenbergChildren of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin AmericaLatin America
November 17, 1991Suzanne GarmentScandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American PoliticsPolitics of the United States
November 24, 1991James StewartDen of ThievesInsider trading
December 1, 1991Gary SickOctober Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald ReaganOctober surprise conspiracy theory
December 8, 1991James RestonDeadline: A MemoirMemoir/Autobiography; The New York Times
December 15, 1991Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary EdsallChain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American PoliticsPolitics of the United States
December 22, 1991Martin GilbertChurchill: A LifeWinston Churchill
December 29, 1991Jimmy BreslinDamon Runyon: A LifeDamon Runyon

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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