List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2002

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004. The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author. The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night, and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.

First broadcast(with link totranscript / video) Author Book Subject matterJanuary 6, 2002Bill PressSpin This! All The Ways We Don’t Tell the TruthSpin (public relations)January 13, 2002Jeffrey HartSmiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher EducationWestern canon; Higher education in the United StatesJanuary 20, 2002John LaurenceThe Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War StoryThe Vietnam WarJanuary 27, 2002Sandra Day O’ConnorLazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American SouthwestMemoir/Autobiography; Duncan, Arizona; RanchingFebruary 3, 2002Ralph NaderCrashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for PresidentMemoir/Autobiography; 2000 United States presidential election; Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2000February 10, 2002Steve NealHarry & Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar WorldHarry Truman; Dwight EisenhowerFebruary 17, 2002Edward Steers Jr.Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham LincolnThe Assassination of Abraham LincolnFebruary 24, 2002R. Kent NewmyerJohn Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme CourtJohn MarshallMarch 3, 2002Randall KennedyNigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome WordUse of the word "Nigger"March 10, 2002Richard LingemanSinclair Lewis: Rebel From MainstreetSinclair LewisMarch 17, 2002Michael NovakOn Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American FoundingHistory of religion in the United States; Founding Fathers of the United StatesMarch 24, 2002Jon RonsonThem: Adventures with ExtremistsConspiracy Theories; ExtremismMarch 31, 2002Frank WuYellow: Race in America Beyond Black and WhiteAsian AmericansApril 7, 2002Leonard Downie Jr., Co-AuthorThe News About the News: American Journalism in PerilJournalismApril 14, 2002Ellen Joan PollockThe Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in HistoryMartin FrankelApril 21, 2002Gordon WoodThe American Revolution: A HistoryThe American RevolutionApril 28, 2002Robert SkidelskyJohn Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946John Maynard KeynesMay 5, 2002Sarah BradyA Good FightJames Brady; Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; Gun politics in the United StatesMay 12, 2002Jennifer TothWhat Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of A Child Turning ViolentCauses and correlates of crime; Foster careMay 19, 2002James SrodesFranklin: The Essential Founding FatherBenjamin FranklinMay 26, 2002Richard John NeuhausAs I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon ReturningDeathJune 2, 2002Richard PosnerPublic Intellectuals: A Study of DeclinePublic intellectualsJune 9, 2002Jennet ConantTuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War IIAlfred Lee LoomisJune 16, 2002Samantha PowerA Problem From Hell: America and the Age of GenocideGenocide; United States non-interventionismJune 23, 2002Diana PrestonLusitania: An Epic TragedyThe RMS LusitaniaJune 30, 2002John LeonardLonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive CulturesEssays; Intellectuals; Exile; ExpatriatesJuly 7, 2002Sandra MackeyThe Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam HusseinIraq; Saddam HusseinJuly 14, 2002Nguyen Cao KyBuddha’s Child: My Fight to Save VietnamVietnamJuly 21, 2002Daniel StashowerThe Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of TelevisionPhilo T. Farnsworth; David Sarnoff; History of TelevisionJuly 28, 2002Beppe SevergniniCiao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S.Culture of the United StatesAugust 4, 2002Glenn LouryThe Anatomy of Racial InequalityRace in the United StatesAugust 11, 2002Ann CoulterSlander: Liberal Lies About the American RightMedia bias in the United States; American Left; Conservatism in the United StatesAugust 18, 2002Simon WorrallThe Poet and the MurdererMark HofmannAugust 25, 2002Michael OrenSix Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle EastThe Six-Day WarSeptember 1, 2002Winston GroomA Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918—Tragedy and Triumph on the Western FrontYpres Salient; First Battle of Ypres; Second Battle of Ypres; Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of the Lys (1918); Fifth Battle of YpresSeptember 8, 2002Dennis HutchinsonThe Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's WashingtonJohn Frush KnoxSeptember 15, 2002Arnold LudwigKing of the Mountain: The Nature of Political LeadershipLeadership; Politics; Heads of state; Heads of governmentSeptember 22, 2002Eliot CohenSupreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in WartimeCivilian control of the military; Abraham Lincoln; Georges Clemenceau; Winston Churchill; David Ben-GurionSeptember 29, 2002Pete DaviesAmerican Road: The Story of An Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor AgeTranscontinental Motor ConvoyOctober 6, 2002Zig ZiglarZig: The Autobiography of Zig ZiglarMemoir/Autobiography; Sales; Motivational speakingOctober 13, 2002Linda GreenlawThe Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small IslandLobstering; MaineOctober 20, 2002Michael MandelbaumThe Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first CenturyGlobalization; Peace; Democracy; Free market economicsOctober 27, 2002Charles SlackNoble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth CenturyCharles Goodyear; Thomas Hancock; Vulcanization November 3, 2002Caryle MurphyPassion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East—The Egyptian ExperienceIslam in EgyptNovember 10, 2002Frank WilliamsJudging LincolnAbraham LincolnNovember 17, 2002Rick AtkinsonAn Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943North African Campaign; Operation TorchNovember 24, 2002Peter KrassCarnegieAndrew CarnegieDecember 1, 2002Bruce FeilerAbraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three FaithsAbraham; Abrahamic religionsDecember 8, 2002Michelle MalkinInvasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our ShoresImmigration to the United States; Illegal immigration to the United StatesDecember 15, 2002John TaliaferroGreat White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. RushmoreGutzon Borglum; Mount Rushmore; Construction of Mount RushmoreDecember 22, 2002Diana WalkerPublic & Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the PresidencyPhotojournalismDecember 29, 2002Margaret MacMillanParis 1919: Six Months That Changed the WorldParis Peace Conference, 1919

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