Book TV is LIVE from the 11th annual National Book Festival from the National Mall in Washington, DC this weekend. Our first day of programming included event coverage from the history and biography pavilion, author interviews, and national viewer phone calls with authors that included:
- Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
- Sarah Vowell, Unfamiliar Fishes
- Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial, Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
- Jim Lehrer, Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain
- Candice Millard, The Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
- Justin Martin, Genius of Place: The LIfe of Frederick Law Olmstead
- Sylvia Nasar, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration