C-SPAN 2 TV Schedule
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Public Affairs Events
7 hours, 1 minutePublic affairs events, congressional hearings, speeches, and interviews.
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Books About President Trump and the 2020 Presidential Election
59 minutesBook TV looked at books about President Trump and the upcoming presidential election.
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Gov. Larry Hogan R-MD, "Still Standing"
55 minutesRepublican Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland spoke about his life and career. This virtual event was hosted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
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Author Discussion on the Black Lives Matter Movement
1 hour, 25 minutesAuthors Elizabeth Hinton, Robin Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Cornell West discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and next steps for the movement.
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Melissa Korn & Jennifer Levitz, "'Unacceptable"
55 minutesThe Wall Street Journal's Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz discussed their reporting of the largest college admissions bribery case ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. This virtual event was sponsored by McNally Jackson Booksin New York City.
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Eric Foner, "The Second Founding"
45 minutesPulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner looked at the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments added to the U.S. Constitution during the Reconstruction Era. This virtual event was sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Books About President Trump and the 2020 Presidential Election
1 hour, 0 minuteBook TV looked at books about President Trump and the upcoming presidential election.
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After Words: Charlotte Pence, "Where You Go"
1 hour, 0 minuteVice President Mike Pence's daughter Charlotte Pence shared important lessons she's learned from her father. She's interviewed by Kate Brower, journalist and author of "First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power."
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Julian Zelizer, "Burning Down the House"
1 hour, 0 minutePrinceton University history professor Julian Zelizer explored the political ascendancy of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and argued that his congressional leadership was the beginning of America's hyper partisan divide. This was a virtual author event hosted by the Strand Bookstore in New York City.
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad, "The Condemnation of Blackness"
1 hour, 5 minutesHarvard Kennedy School professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad looked at how race became linked to criminality in post-Civil War America. This was a virtual event hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.
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Tiffany Shlain, "24/6"
50 minutesFilmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain talked about the benefits of turning off your screens for one day every week. This virtual event was hosted by the Bay Area Book Festival.
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Christopher Haugh & Jordan Blashek, "Union"
1 hour, 5 minutesJordan Blashek, a veteran and Republican, and Christopher Haugh, a Democrat and former State Department speechwriter, spoke about their road trip across America to find commonality. This virtual event was hosted by Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California.
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Suzanne Nossel, "Dare to Speak"
1 hour, 0 minutePEN America CEO and President Suzanne Nossel offered her thoughts on censoring of free speech. This virtual event was sponsored by Magic City Books in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Mike Gonzalez, The Plot to Change America"
1 hour, 0 minuteHeritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez argued that identity politics is dividing America. This virtual event was hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Robert Caro at the LBJ Library
1 hour, 43 minutesThis program featured Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Robert Caro during the course of two days. Mr. Caro took Book TV on a tour of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and explained how he does his research. He has used the Johnson papers in his multi-volume biography, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, published by Random House. He was working on his fourth and final volume in the series, concentrating for the first time on the vice-presidential and presidential years. The tour is interspersed with segments of a talk he gave at the library on May 13, 2003. Although he has researched the life of the former president using the library's papers for 26 years, Mr. Caro had never spoken at the library before. During his talk he answered questions from members of the audience. Segments from the talk were interspersed with the tour. In 1975, Mr. Caro began researching a planned 3 volume biography of Lyndon Johnson entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson. The first volume, The Path to P
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Robert Caro, "The Power Broker"
1 hour, 5 minutesRobert Caro talked about his book The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, published by Vintage. This biography of Robert Moses won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. He talked about how he came to write this book about the power of unelected public authorities. Mr. Caro detailed some of the great urban landscapes designed by Robert Moses and the costs to the people and neighborhoods of New York City. This program was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Robert Moses and the Modern City: Remaking the Metropolis" The exhibit at three museums in New York City focuses on the extensive physical transformation of New York City guided by city planner Robert Moses (1888-1981), from 1934 to 1968.
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Robert Caro on Writing Biographies
45 minutesRobert Caro delivered the 2009 Leon Levy Biography Lecture. He presented his thoughts on giving the reader a sense of the setting of the action in a biography. He talked about how he does his research and writing, focusing his remarks on the yet to be published final book of his multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson which examines his years in the White House. Robert Caro is the author of several books including The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and a multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, that includes the titles, The Path to Power, Means of Ascent and Master of the Senate that was the winner of the National Book Award in 2002 and Pulitzer Prize in 2003. This event of the Leon Levy Center for Biography was held on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in the Elebash Recital Hall of the Center for the Humanities of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
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Q&A: Robert Caro, "On Power"
59 minutesRobert Caro talked about, "On Power," his audio project on the evolution and exercise of political power in America. He also talked about the progress he is making on the next volume of his multi-part biography of former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Robert Caro, "Working"
1 hour, 38 minutesRobert Caro discussed his book "Working" with comedian and late night talk show host Conan O'Brien.
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Lisa Napoli, "Up All Night"
50 minutesAuthor and journalist Lisa Napoli provided a history of cable news and the rise of the 24-hour news cycle. This was a virtual event hosted by the Atlanta History Center.
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Miles Harvey, "King of Confidence"
1 hour, 10 minutesAuthor and DePaul University professor Miles Harvey recounts 19th century lawyer turned Mormon evangelist James Strang, who claimed to be the successor to Joseph Smith. The author reports that Mr. Strand convinced hundreds to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he named himself king and ran a pirate colony prior to his assassination.
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Nina Jankowicz, "How to Lose the Information War"
1 hour, 0 minuteWilson Center fellow Nina Jankowicz looked at the disinformation campaigns launched by Russia against Central and Eastern Eruopean countries.
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John Larson, "Laid Waste!"
1 hour, 5 minutesPurdue University history professor John Larson looked at how colonial Americans utilized industry to benefit themselves to the detriment of the environment. This was a virtual program hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Source Booksellers on the Continued Impact of COVID-19
15 minutesBook TV followed up with Janet Webster Jones and Alyson Jones Turner, mother and daughter owners of Source Booksellers in Detroit, about how COVID-19 continued to impact their bookstore's operations.
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Author Discussion on Mary Washington
1 hour, 9 minutesMartha Saxton, Craig Shirley, and Charlene Boyer Lewis discussed their biographies of George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington. This was a virtual event hosted by George Washington's Mount Vernon.