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Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History
Brian Lamb
Hardcover. Perseus Press 2004-03.
ISBN 9781586482329
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Publisher description
The bestselling Booknotes series celebrates C-SPAN's 25th anniversary with
a new collection examining our country and its character. Over the past
twenty-five years, C-SPAN has established itself as a national treasure. And
Booknotes , the flagship of its book programming, has become the premier place
to see serious, thoughtful nonfiction get its television due. Over the past
fifteen years, Brian Lamb, the CEO of C-SPAN and host of Booknotes , has
interviewed 765 authors on the program, and these deep and wide-ranging
interviews have been the basis for three bestselling Booknotes books. Now, in a
new collection, Booknotes: On American Character , Lamb has selected seventy
original pieces that reveal something about America: the nation's people,
history, and character. Here are biographies of artists, businessmen,
politicians, and inventors; stories of events famous, infamous, and less
well-known in the nation's history; a look at how politics works in America and
how the nation responds to conflict. Our leading historians, journalists, and
public figures draw from a diverse set of sources to examine what kind of
nation and people we are. The result is a valuable addition to the Booknotes legacy and a welcome
read for any fan of the program. Contemporary writers and historians examine America's national character,
looking at events throughout history, including the 1876 presidential election,
the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War.
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