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Sundays at Eight - 25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN's Q&A and Booknotes (Hardcover)
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Sundays at Eight - 25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN's Q&A and Booknotes (Hardcover)
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For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been
appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host
Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for
hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In
today's soundbite culture that hour remains one of television's
last vestiges of in-depth, civil conversation.
First came C-SPAN's "Booknotes" in 1989, which by the time it ended
in December 2004, was the longest-running author-interview program
in American broadcast history. Many of the most notable nonfiction
authors of its era were featured over the course of 800 episodes,
and the conversations became a defining hour for the network and
for nonfiction writers.
In January 2005, C-SPAN embarked on a new chapter with the launch
of Q and A. Again one hour of uninterrupted conversation but the
focus was expanded to include documentary film makers,
entrepreneurs, social workers, political leaders and just about
anyone with a story to tell.
To mark this anniversary Lamb and his team at C-SPAN have assembled
"Sundays at Eight," a collection of the best unpublished interviews
and stories from the last 25 years. Featured in this collection are
historians like David McCullough, Ron Chernow and Robert Caro,
reporters including April Witt, John Burns and Michael Weisskopf,
and numerous others, including Christopher Hitchens, Brit Hume and
Kenneth Feinberg.
In a March 2001 "Booknotes" interview "60 Minutes" creator Don
Hewitt described the show's success this way: "All you have to do
is tell me a story." This collection attests to the success of that
principle, which has guided Lamb for decades. And his guests have
not disappointed, from the dramatic escape of a lifelong resident
of a North Korean prison camp, to the heavy price paid by one
successful West Virginia businessman when he won $314 million in
the lottery, or the heroic stories of recovery from the most
horrific injuries in modern-day warfare. Told in the series'
signature conversational manner, these stories come to life again
on the page. "Sundays at Eight" is not merely a token for fans of
C-SPAN's interview programs, but a collection of significant
stories that have helped us understand the world for a
quarter-century.
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