Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Live coverage from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the

campus of UCLA was shown.

Panel titles along with tentative start times and participating authors

are listed below. Book TV conducted interviews and call-ins with authors who attended the festival.

Crisis Points Panel: Patricia Goldstone, Aaronsohn’s Maps ;

Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men ; Anthony Pagden, [Worlds at War: The

2,500 Year Struggle Between East & West] ; Moderator: Elizabeth Taylor

Arianna Huffington, author of Right Is Wrong

Infamous Lives Panel: Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder ; Michael Neufeld, Von Braun ; Kenneth Ackerman, Young J. Edgar ; Moderator: A. Scott Berg

A History of Violence Panel: David Bell, The First Total War;

Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence; Scott Martelle, Blood Passion; Andrew Nagorski, The Greatest Battle; Moderator: Leo Braudy

Laura Schlessinger, author of Stop Whining, Start Living

Lessons from the 20th Century Panel: David Goodman, Standing Up to the Madness; Elizabeth Samet, Soldier’s Heart; Clancy Sigal, A Woman of Uncertain Character; Moderator: Timothy Naftali close