C-Span2’s BookTV: In-Depth Interviews with Prominent Historians and Authors

These three-hour interviews, which include questions and answers from call-in viewers, are accessible as audio-visual files for 2000-2005 at: http://www.booktv.org/InDepth/archive_2000.asp. Among the truly distinguished list of interviewed historians are: Douglas Brinkley, Harold Holzer, David Herbert Donald, Robert Caro, Howard Zinn, Garry Wills, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Other interviewed authors include: Tom Clancy, Cornell West, Peggy Noonan, Jeff Shaara, and Tom Wolfe. These sessions are intimate, intelligent, and engaging. After visiting for three hours you can’t help but feel that you’ve learned something about the interviewees as well as about the range of topics discussed. While viewable free on-line, the programs may also be purchased on VHS, search at: http://www.c-spanstore.org/shop/. There’s a lot more to BookTV, visit at: http://www.booktv.org/. I’ll write about BookTV again because it’s an incredible public service and offers the opportunity to “virtually” attend more lectures and conferences than most of us can even imagine.