Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas - Hardcover

Lamb, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812928474 ISBN 13: 9780812928471

Publisher: Crown, 1997

Synopsis

For nearly a decade, Booknotes has been an oasis of book programming on television, the only place where Americans can regularly find in-depth, quality discussions of books.

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Review:

Brian Lamb is the most self-effacing man on television. So, all the questions he asks on his C-SPAN history, politics, and public policy author-interview show, Booknotes, are focused on the book and author at hand. What a concept! As a result, this collection of the show's interviews since its inception in 1989 (divided into "Storytellers," "Reporters," and "Leaders"--the latter including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher) is a treasure trove. Where else could you learn that presidential historian Forrest McDonald writes in the nude? Or that New York Times reporter Malcolm Browne started out as a chemist but left the profession after he accidentally blew up his laboratory?

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decade, Booknotes has been an oasis of book programming on television, the only place where Americans can regularly find in-depth, quality discussions of books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0812928474
• ISBN 13: 9780812928471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 423