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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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 Encore Booknotes
March 11, 2001 
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Every weekend at 6 p.m. ET 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 Authors
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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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