2010 National Book Festival

The 10th annual National Book Festival was held by the Library of Congress on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. C-SPAN’s BookTV aired live coverage of the day’s events, including authors speaking in the History and Biography Pavilion interspersed with interviews and viewer calls with featured authors.

This program consists of the re-airing of the live coverage. Individual programs can be viewed under the program ID numbers given.

Jennifer Gavin spoke about the festival. Program 295631-25

A viewer call-in program with Ken Follett talking about his historical novel, Fall of Giants. Program 295631-3

Harold Varmus was interviewed about his book The Art and Politics of Science. Program 295631-4

Former first lady Laura Bush was interviewed about her memoir, Spoken from the Heart. Program 295631-5

Henry Petroski was interviewed about his book The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems. Program 295631-6

Former first lady Laura Bush talked about he close