From: C-SPAN on Mon, Feb 07 2011 4:19 AM

Finalists for the National Book Awards 2000 in non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and young people’s literature read from their works. Mr. Cadnum read from The Book of the Lion, published by Viking Children's Books. Mr. Tierney read from Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journ...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 2:32 PM

Mr. Elliott talked about his book Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process, published by Picador. Mr. Elliott shadowed several candidates for the first year and a half of the 2004 presidential campaign and documented his experien...

From: C-SPAN on Sun, Jan 09 2011 6:54 AM

Mr. Boorstin talked about his book, The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World, published by Random House. The book is about people searching for an understanding of human existence. The book begins with the prophets of the Holy Land and the philosophers o...

From: C-SPAN on Sun, Jan 09 2011 3:53 AM

Mr. Rabinowitz and Mr. Kaplan talked about their book A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books , published by Times Books. The book is a collection of sixty clas...