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Taylor Branch talked about his 26 year project, America in the King Years. The trilogy of books includes Parting the Waters, Pillor of Fire, and At Canaan’s Edge, published by Simon and Schu…

Joe Mathews was interviewed about his book, The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy, published by PublicAffairs.

Jon Wiener talked about his book Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower, published by New Press. Mr. Wiener also discussed his book Gimme Some Truth: The J…

Lucinda Franks was interviewed about her book, My Father’s Secret War: A Memoir, published by Miramax. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she wrote about how she discovered her father was …

Debby Applegate talked about her book The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, published by Doubleday. She was interviewed on the BookTV Bus while at the Los Ange…

Max Boot talked about his book War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, published by Gotham. In the book he was telling the story of the four major techno…

Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, former professional basketball player, talked about the book he co-authored, On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance, published by Simon and S…

Taylor Branch talked about his upcoming book on President Bill Clinton, to be published in late 2008. Mr. Branch, who has known Clinton since the early 1970s, was given exclusive access to t…

Daniel Altman talked about his book Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He was interviewed on the C-SPAN BookTV Bus while at the Los Angeles Ti…

Philip Gourevitch talked about The Paris Review magazine. Mr. Gourevitch wrote the introduction to the book The Paris Review Interviews, I, published by Picador. He was interviewed on the Bo…

Charles Shields talked about his book Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, published by Henry Holt and Company. He was interviewed on the BookTV Bus while at the Miami Book Fair Internatio…

Donna Gehrke-White talked about her book The Face Behind the Veil: The Extraordinary Lives of Muslim Women in America, published by Citadel. She was interviewed on the BookTV Bus while at th…

Kati Marton talked about her book The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World, published by Simon and Schuster. The book tells the stories of nine men who left Budapest…

Candice Millard talked about her book The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, published by Doubleday. The book is about Theodore Roosevelt’s trip down an unmapped tributary…

Sonia Nazario talked about her book Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother, published by Random House. She was interviewed on the BookTV Bus at …

H.W. Brands was interviewed about his book, The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar, published by W.W. Norton. The book explores early battl…

Thomas Cahill talked about his book Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe, published by Nan A. Talese. In the book, the fifth…

Joan Cheever talked about her book Back from the Dead: One Woman’s Search for the Men Who Walked off America’s Death Row, published by John Wiley and Sons. She was interviewed on the BookTV …

John Moe talked about his book Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky, published by William Morrow. He was i…

Erik Calonius talked about his book The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails, published by St. Martin’s Press. Mr. Calonius was interviewed on the Boo…