[Peace-discuss] Katha Pollitt, author of "Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories"

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Hello AWARE Viewers,

This just in from Book TV Alert booktvalert at c-span.org 

Some good things for AWARE folks this Weekend on C-Span 2, which is Ch 16 in CU. Remember to subtract an hour for CDT. For those of you who don't read the Nation Mag, Kathy Pollit is hilarious and insightful -- my fave is her essay on the ten commandments, side-splitting! Check it out http://www..thenation.com/doc/20030922/pollitt
 --Jenifer

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Enjoy 3 Days of Book TV This Weekend
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Join us for three days of Book TV programming this 
holiday weekend, beginning Friday, July 4, 
at 8 AM ET and running through Monday, July 
7, at 8 AM ET.   We will be featuring new programs, 
well-known authors, colonial history programs and 
other selections throughout the weekend.
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your 
calls

Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET

Katha Pollitt joins us for a three-hour 
conversation about her books.  She is the author of a 
poetry collection, Antarctic Traveller, and four 
essay collections:  Reasonable Creatures: Essays 
on Women and Feminism; Subject to Debate: 
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and 
Culture; Virginity or Death! And Other Social and 
Political Issues of Our Time; and Learning to 
Drive: And Other Life Stories. 

You can join this three-hour conversation by 
e-mailing your questions to 
booktv at c-span.org 
or by calling in during 
the program: East/Central Time Zone 202-737-
0001,

Mountain/Pacific Time Zone 202-737-0002.

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Insightful author interviews 

Saturday 9 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM ET

J. Phillip London, former CEO and current 
chairman of the board of CACI, talks about the 
accusations of wrongdoing made against his 
company in relation to the Abu Ghraib scandal.  Mr. 
London argues that  the initial investigations by the 
military and reports in the media wrongfully implicate 
his employees in the torture and abuse committed by 
others at the Iraqi prison.    Mr. London is interviewed 
by Rowan Scarborough, national security 
correspondent for The Washington Times.
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Weekend Highlights
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Michael Meyerson, 
Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton 
Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, 
and Made Democracy Safe for the World

Michael Meyerson recounts the writing of the 
Federalist Papers and profiles the essayists, James 
Madison and Alexander Hamilton.  Mr. Meyerson 
contends that Hamilton and Madison's writings were 
widely read and assisted in the understanding of the 
US Constitution.   This event was hosted by Olsson's 
Books & Records in Washington, DC.

(Friday 2:30 PM, Sunday 7 PM ET)

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Walter Borneman, Polk: The Man Who 
Transformed the Presidency and America


Walter Borneman recounts the tenure of former 
President James K. Polk (1845-1849), who wished to 
serve only a single term and was responsible for the 
establishment of an independent treasury, the 
doubling of US territory, and a reduction in tariffs as 
well as the expansion of executive power.  William 
Polk died three months after leaving the presidency at 
the age of 52.  This event was hosted by the James K. 
Polk Ancestral Home and took place at St. Peter's 
Episcopal Church in Columbia, Tennessee.


(Friday 7 PM, Saturday 3 PM, Sunday 2 AM ET)

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Ingrid Betancourt, Until Death Do Us Part: 
My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia

Ingrid Betancourt was freed from captivity in Colombia 
this week.  A Colombian-French politician, she was 
running for president of Colombia when captured by 
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or 
FARC, in 2002.   In January 2002, Book TV recorded 
Ingrid Betancourt discussing her memoir.  In the book, 
Colombian Senator Betancourt attacks the crime and 
corruption in her country and describes the reaction of 
the Colombian government to her book. Ms. 
Betancourt spoke at Books & Books in Coral Gables, 
Florida. 

(Saturday 8:15 AM ET)
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Jill Tietjen, Charlotte Waisman, 
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed 
America

Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen present a timeline 
of trailblazing women in careers ranging from the 
fields of science, politics, the arts, and sports from 
1587 to the present.  Their profiles of women vary from 
suffragist Susan B. Anthony to biologist Rachel 
Carson, astronaut Sally Ride, and historian Drew 
Gilpin Faust, the first woman to be named president of 
Harvard University.  This event was hosted by the 
Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, Colorado.

(Saturday 7:30 AM and 5:15 PM, Sunday 1:15 AM ET)

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Arthur Herman, Gandhi & Churchill: The 
Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged 
Our Age

Historian Arthur Herman profiles Winston Churchill 
and Mohandas Gandhi and recounts the contrasting 
roles they played in the future of India.  Mr. Herman 
relays Churchill's desire to maintain British control of 
the country and Gandhi's acts of satyagraha, or civil 
disobedience, to gain freedom for India.  This event 
was hosted by Borders Bookstore in Washington, DC.


(Saturday 2 PM, Sunday 12:15 AM and 8 PM ET)


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