[Peace] Katha Pollitt,
author of "Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories"
Jenifer Cartwright
jencart13 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 3 13:12:32 CDT 2008
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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Email: booktvalert at c-span.org
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