[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Book TV Alert: Susan Jacoby,
author of "The Age of American Unreason"
Jenifer Cartwright
jencart13 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 25 01:06:45 CDT 2008
A couple of good things this w/e on Book TV (C-Span Ch 16). Remember to subtract an hour for CDT.
--Jenifer
Book TV Alert <booktvalert at c-span.org> wrote:
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:48:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Book TV Alert <booktvalert at c-span.org>
To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
Subject: Book TV Alert: Susan Jacoby, author of "The Age of American
Unreason"
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Book TV Alert
C-SPAN2's Book TV: April 26-28
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--Weekend Highlights
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 9 PM,
Monday 7 AM
ET
In The Age of American Unreason, author
Susan Jacoby offers a critique on American
society saying that the combination of
anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism in American
culture is becoming a serious problem. She focuses
on issues such as society's addiction to
mass media, ineffective educational systems, and
religious fundamentalism. Ms. Jacoby discussed her
book with Nick Gillespie, editor of
Reason.tv and Reason.com.
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Weekend Highlights
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2008 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books,
LIVE Saturday & Sunday Coverage
>From the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Book
TV will be covering live panel discusssions, and doing
interviews and call-ins with authors attending the
festival. For the full schedule please visit our website,
BookTV.org (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013-JVTJPoCzU6_Qn4FmWZ6C49UAaNCl13Q9ftfn1suxO7EWQKYImmTfaREoAjuGSKe-HQ31I9sY9cdxkYAy8v84oEfUowTLRYO55XQP1-mfc=).
(Saturday 2 PM and 11 PM, Sunday 1:30 PM and 10
PM ET)
Richard Thompson Ford,
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes
Race Relations Worse
Author Richard Thompson Ford examines charges of
racism and other forms of bias and whether they are
being used too often in situations that are simply
social conflicts. Mr. Ford spoke about his book at
Hue-Man Bookstore in New York City.
(Saturday 9:45 AM, Sunday 6 AM ET)
Richard Florida,
Who's Your City: How the Creative Economy is
Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of
Your Life
Richard Florida contends that in the era of
globalization it still matters where people call home
and where you live is one of the most important
decisions you will make. From your quality of life to
the people you surrond yourself with, Mr. Florida
determines which cities are suited for certain people.
This event was hosted at Google headquarters in
Mountain View, California.
(Saturday 9 PM, Monday 6 AM ET)
Barry Goldwater, Jr. and John Dean, Pure
Goldwater
>From the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC,
Barry Goldwater, Jr. and John Dean, co-editors
of Pure Goldwater, talk about the life and views
of the
late senator from Arizona. Lee Edwards of the
Heritage Foundation provides commentary.
(Sunday 11 AM and 8 PM ET)
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