[Peace] Fwd: Book TV Alert: Susan Jacoby, author of "The Age of American Unreason"

[Jenifer Cartwright]

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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