# List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1989

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb. It 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 |
| April 2, 1989 | Zbigniew Brzezinski | The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century | Communism |
| April 9, 1989 | Judy Shelton | The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets | The Economy of the Soviet Union |
| April 16, 1989 | Bruce Oudes | From: The President—Richard Nixon's Secret Files | Richard Nixon |
| April 23, 1989 | Susan Moeller | Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat | War photography |
| April 30, 1989 | Henry Brandon | Special Relationships: A Foreign Correspondent's Memoirs | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| May 7, 1989 | Col. David Hackworth | About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior | Memoir/Autobiography; The Vietnam War |
| May 14, 1989 | James Fallows | More Like Us: Making America Great Again | Japan – United States relations; Economy of Japan |
| May 21, 1989 | Gregory Fossedal | The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution | Democracy promotion |
| May 28, 1989 | Stanley Karnow | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines | Philippine–American War |
| June 4, 1989 | James MacGregor Burns | The Crosswinds of Freedom | History of the United States (1918–1945); History of the United States (1945–1964); History of the United States (1964–1980); History of the United States (1980–1991) |
| June 11, 1989 | Robert Christopher | Crashing the Gates: The De-WASPing of America's Power Elite | White Anglo-Saxon Protestants; Elitism |
| June 18, 1989 | Sen. Robert Byrd | The Senate: 1789-1989 | History of the United States Senate |
| June 25, 1989 | Elizabeth Colton | The Jackson Phenomenon: The Man, The Power, The Message | Jesse Jackson |
| July 2, 1989 | Nathaniel Branden | Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand |
| July 9, 1989 | Roger Kennedy | Orders From France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World (1780–1820) | The French Revolution; The U.S. Constitution; France – United States relations |
| July 14, 1989 | Simon Schama | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution | The French Revolution |
| July 16, 1989 | George Wilson | Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Army | The United States Army; Category:United States Army education |
| July 23, 1989 | Jeanne Simon | Codename: Scarlett—Life on the Campaign Trail by the Wife of a Presidential Candidate | Senator Paul Simon; Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1988 |
| July 30, 1989 | Michael Kaufman | Mad Dreams, Saving Graces: Poland—A Nation in Conspiracy | Poland; History of Poland (1945–1989) |
| August 6, 1989 | Porter McKeever | Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy | Adlai Stevenson |
| August 13, 1989 | Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates | The Acting President | Ronald Reagan |
| August 20, 1989 | Bruce Murray | Journey Into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration | Space exploration; NASA; Space advocacy |
| August 27, 1989 | Jack Germond and Jules Witcover | Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988 | 1988 United States presidential election |
| September 3, 1989 | Walter Laqueur | The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost | Glasnost |
| September 10, 1989 | Thomas Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | Journalism; Middle East |
| September 17, 1989 | Gen. Ariel Sharon | Warrior: An Autobiography | Memoir/Autobiography; History of the Israel Defense Forces |
| September 24, 1989 | George Gilder | Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology | Quantum mechanics; Microtechnology |
| October 1, 1989 | Mort Rosenblum | Back Home: A Foreign Correspondent Rediscovers America | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| October 8, 1989 | Barbara Ehrenreich | Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class | American middle class |
| October 15, 1989 | Harrison Salisbury | Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June | The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 |
| October 22, 1989 | Kenneth Adelman | The Great Universal Embrace, Arms Summitry—A Skeptic's Account | Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Geneva Summit (1985); Reykjavík Summit; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty |
| October 29, 1989 | Rev. Ralph David Abernathy | And the Walls Came Tumbling Down | Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement |
| November 5, 1989 | Vassily Aksyonov | Say Cheese | Say Cheese is one of the only novels ever featured on Booknotes. |
| November 12, 1989 | Felix Rodriguez | Shadow Warrior | Memoir/Autobiography; The Central Intelligence Agency |
| November 19, 1989 | Robin Wright | In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade | The Ayatollah Khomeini |
| November 26, 1989 | Peter Hennessy | Whitehall | Her Majesty's Government; Whitehall |
| December 3, 1989 | Clifford Stoll | The Cuckoo's Egg | Security cracking; Markus Hess |
| December 10, 1989 | Arthur Grace | Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race | Photojournalism; 1988 United States presidential election |
| December 17, 1989 | James Reston Jr. | The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally | John Connally |
| December 24, 1989 | Richard Rhodes | Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer | Agriculture in the United States; Family farms |
| December 31, 1989 | William D. Lutz | Doublespeak | Doublespeak |