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A Companion Web Site to C-SPAN's Author Interview Series

 A New Booknotes.org

Booknotes.org is the permanent online archive for C-SPAN’s award-winning author interview program, Booknotes. For nearly sixteen years, from 1989 to 2004, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb interviewed contemporary non-fiction authors for one hour, discussing their books, their research, and their lives. The resulting archive of 800 interviews is a valuable collection of late twentieth century American scholarship, capturing the intellectual work of some of the country's best non-fiction writers, as well as the biographies and memoirs of notable contemporay political figures. Searchable video, as well as
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written transcripts, allow teachers, students, researchers and non-fiction book enthusiasts to see and hear these writers in their own words.


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·Stream Video
 Watch roughly 500 of the 800 shows.
·Read Transcripts
 Of every show since the beginning.
·Search by Keywords
 Look through the transcripts any number of ways.
·Download Audio
 Select audio-only programs from Audible.com
 
·Buy Books & Video
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·About Booknotes
 Learn about the show and its history.
·Encore Booknotes
 Find out schedule for reairs on Book TV.

 Encore Booknotes
July 16, 1995 
Book image Armstrong Williams, Beyond Blame: How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency Barrier
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Every weekend on C-SPAN2, Book TV reairs one of the Booknotes programs from the show's 1989-2004 run. Learn more about this weekend's "Encore Booknotes" on booktv.org.

 Booknotes Books
Booknotes: On American Character
On American Character

Booknotes: Stories from American History
Stories from American History

Booknotes: Life Stories
Life Stories
Booknotes: America's Finest Writers
America's Finest Writers
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Now in Paperback!
Booknotes: On American Character, the fourth book drawn from the Booknotes series. It features 80 of America's best-known contemporary historians, biographers, and journalists. Only $16.50.



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