# List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1998

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 to transcript / video) | Author | Book | Subject matter |
| January 4, 1998 | Paul Nagel | John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life | John Quincy Adams |
| January 11, 1998 | Iris Chang | The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II | The Nanking Massacre |
| January 18, 1998 | Allan Metcalf and David Barnhart | America In So Many Words | American English |
| January 25, 1998 | Daniel Pipes | Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From | Conspiracy theories |
| February 1, 1998 | Roger Simon | Showtime: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House | United States presidential primary |
| February 8, 1998 | Carol Reardon | Pickett's Charge in History & Memory | George Pickett; Pickett's Charge |
| February 15, 1998 | Joseph Hernon | Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990 | The United States Senate |
| February 22, 1998 | William Gildea | Where the Game Matters Most | Hoosier Hysteria |
| March 1, 1998 | John Lukacs | The Hitler of History | Adolf Hitler |
| March 8, 1998 | John Marszalek | The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House | The Petticoat affair |
| March 15, 1998 | Randall Robinson | Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America | Memoir/Autobiography; TransAfrica |
| March 22, 1998 | Ernest Lefever | The Irony of Virtue: Ethics and American Power | Ethics |
| March 29, 1998 | Douglas L. Wilson | Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln |
| April 5, 1998 | Paul Johnson | A History of the American People | History of the United States |
| April 12, 1998 | Taylor Branch | Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| April 19, 1998 | John S.D. Eisenhower | Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott | Winfield Scott |
| April 26, 1998 | Molly Ivins | You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years | Politics of the United States; Politics of Texas; Presidency of Bill Clinton |
| May 3, 1998 | David Aikman | Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century | Mother Teresa; Nelson Mandela; Billy Graham; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Pope John II; Elie Wiesel |
| May 10, 1998 | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society | Multiculturalism |
| May 17, 1998 | Patrick Buchanan | The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy | Globalism |
| May 24, 1998 | Jill Ker Conway | When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography | Memoirs and Autobiographies |
| May 31, 1998 | Max Boot | Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption, and Incompetence on the Bench | Corruption in local government; Law of the United States |
| June 7, 1998 | Linda Simon | Genuine Reality: A Life of William James | William James |
| June 14, 1998 | Edward Lazarus | Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court | The Supreme Court of the United States |
| June 21, 1998 | Ron Chernow | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | John D. Rockefeller |
| June 28, 1998 | Edward Larson | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion | The Scopes Trial; Relationship between religion and science |
| July 5, 1998 | Andrew Carroll | Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters | Letters |
| July 12, 1998 | John Lewis | Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement | Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement |
| July 19, 1998 | Ben H. Procter | William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910 | William Randolph Hearst |
| July 26, 1998 | Richard Holbrooke | To End a War | Bosnian War; Dayton Agreement |
| August 2, 1998 | F. Carolyn Graglia | Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism | Feminism; Antifeminism |
| August 9, 1998 | Roy Reed | Faubus: The Life and Times of An American Prodigal | Orval Faubus |
| August 16, 1998 | Patricia O'Toole | Money and Morals in America | Philanthropy in the United States |
| August 23, 1998 | Barbara Crossette | The Great Hill Stations of Asia | Hill stations |
| August 30, 1998 | Robert Sobel | Coolidge: An America Enigma | Calvin Coolidge |
| September 6, 1998 | Linda Davis | Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane | Stephen Crane |
| September 13, 1998 | Arnold Rogow | A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr | Alexander Hamilton; Aaron Burr; Burr–Hamilton duel |
| September 20, 1998 | Larry Tye | The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations | Edward Bernays; Public relations |
| September 27, 1998 | Balint Vazsonyi | America’s 30 Years War: Who Is Winning? | Economic history of the United States; Socialism |
| October 4, 1998 | George Bush and Brent Scowcroft | A World Transformed | United States foreign policy; History of the United States National Security Council 1989–1993; Cold War (1985–1991) |
| October 11, 1998 | Juan Williams | Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary | Thurgood Marshall |
| October 18, 1998 | Christopher Dickey | Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son | Memoir/Autobiography; James Dickey; The novel Deliverance; The film Deliverance |
| October 25, 1998 | Dorothy Herrmann | Helen Keller: A Life | Helen Keller |
| November 1, 1998 | Charles Lewis | The Buying of the Congress: How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness | Lobbying in the United States |
| November 8, 1998 | Simon Winchester | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | The Oxford English Dictionary; William Chester Minor; James Murray |
| November 15, 1998 | Eric Foner | The Story of American Freedom | Civil liberties in the United States; Political freedom |
| November 22, 1998 | Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda | Rwandan genocide |
| November 29, 1998 | Melissa Müller | Anne Frank: The Biography | Anne Frank |
| December 6, 1998 | Shelby Steele | A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America | Affirmative action; Reverse discrimination |
| December 13, 1998 | William Greider | Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace | Military budget of the United States |
| December 20, 1998 | A. Scott Berg | Lindbergh | Charles Lindbergh |
| December 27, 1998 | Peter Jennings | The Century | American Century |