For the past eight years, "Booknotes" has been an oasis of book programming on television. Now host Brian Lamb has selected the very best moments from the show, a wonderful and intimate collection of some of America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas.
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For the past eight years, "Booknotes" has been an oasis of book programming on television. Now host Brian Lamb has selected the very best moments from the show, a wonderful and intimate collection of some of America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Inscribed by Author(s) Inscribed by author on front endpaper. Author was host of C-Span's Booknotes. Fine; near fine dust jacket.
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Signed by author on the FFEP with a brief inscription to previous owner. Stated First Edition, first printing with full Random House number line in fine / like new condition. The pages of the text are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. The book is in excellent condition inside and out with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front free endpage. (authors, interviews, books, reading) [ISBN 0812928474]
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Very good in very good jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxiii, [1], 423, [1] pages. Illustrations (color). Complete List of Programs. Index. Signed by author. Inscribed on fep, DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) is an American journalist and the founder, executive chairman, and now retired CEO of C-SPAN; an American cable network which provides coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate as well as other public affairs events. Prior to launching C-SPAN in 1979, Lamb held various communications roles including White House telecommunications policy staffer and Washington bureau chief for Cablevision magazine. He also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy for four years. Lamb has conducted thousands of interviews in his lifetime, including those on C-SPAN's Booknotes and Q&A, and is known for his unique interview style, focusing on short, direct questions. Over the course of his career Lamb has received numerous honors and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Humanities Medal." Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004. The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author. The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night, and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history. Booknotes debuted on April 2, 1989. The first guest was former United States National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, discussing The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century. The fifth anniversary was marked on April 10, 1994 with a special two-hour show featuring over 50 of the 300 authors previously featured on the program. For the tenth anniversary of Booknotes in 1999, Brian Lamb compiled and edited an anthology of stories on 78 people who influenced American history from the 18th century to 1999. Titled Booknotes: Life Stories, each contributed story was written by a well-known biographer. Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing and the Power of Ideas is a compilation of short monologues taken from the transcripts of Brian Lamb's best interviews. After 801 interviews, the final broadcast aired December 5, 2004. Lamb's guest was Mark Edmundson, author of Why Read? , professor of English at the University of Virginia and a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. The show was intended to end with the 800th episode, but due to a miscalculation, the final program was actually the 801st. Booknotes segments continue to be re-aired on C-SPAN's companion network C-SPAN 2, during Saturday Book TV broadcasts, while C-SPAN 3 airs repeat segments every weeknight at 11 p.m. Pacific Time. All 801 transcripts are available online and the 801 shows can be viewed online via the Booknotes website. Lamb's own copies of the Booknotes books, most of which contain his personal marginalia, are housed in the rare books collection of George Mason University.