C-Span 1. Book TV. Book TV Schedule. After Words and Q&A.
Lamb Q[uestions] & Kenneth Feinberg, of the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund,[A]nswers. Former Special Master of the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund, he was Managing Partner & Founder (in 1993) of the Feinberg Group, a law firm specializing in the negotiated resolution of complex legal disputes, located in Washington, D.C.
Only those of you who have slept through the last thirty some years will need explanation for the After Words discussion: Sun at 6:00 pm & again at 9:00 pm
Bob Woodward will discuss his new book, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat. Interviewed by James Mann, he “explains how W. Mark Felt, former Assistant Director of the FBI, became his unnamed source during the Washington Post’s coverage of the 1972 Watergate break-in. In 1992, James Mann cited Mr. Felt as a possible suspect in an article about the identity of Deep Throat for the Atlantic Monthly.”
Booktv’s History choice is Randolph Miller’s Envoy to the Terror: Governeur Morris & the French Revolution. Its Public Lives is Myrlie Evers Williams & Manning Marable’s The Autobiography of Medgar Evers. And its Encore Booknotes is Geoffrey Perret, Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President.
Sat at 8:00 pm and Sun at 11:00 am
Fruitful research is discussesd by Michael Gazzaniga & his The Ethical Brain.
Sunday prime time will take aim at Bush’s policies: at 7:30 Larry Diamond, Thomas Donnelly, Will Marshall will describe the Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. This will be followed, at 9, by Michael Hiltzik, The Plot Against Social Security: How the Bush Plan is Endangering Our Financial Future.
Have a good weekend.