# List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1996

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 7, 1996 | Colin Powell | My American Journey | Memoir/Autobiography; The United States Army |
| January 14, 1996 | William Prochnau | Once Upon a Distant War | The Vietnam War |
| January 21, 1996 | Michael Kinsley | Big Babies | Populism |
| January 28, 1996 | Carlo D'Este | Patton: A Genius for War | George Patton |
| February 4, 1996 | Dennis Prager | Think a Second Time | Essays; Journalism |
| February 11, 1996 | Lance Banning | The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic | James Madison |
| February 18, 1996 | Dan Balz and Ronald Brownstein | Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival | The Republican Revolution |
| February 25, 1996 | H. W. Brands | The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s | Category:1890s in the United States |
| March 3, 1996 | Hillary Clinton | It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us | American family structure |
| March 10, 1996 | Johanna Neuman | Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics? | International relations |
| March 17, 1996 | Clarence Page | Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity | Essays; Race in the United States |
| March 24, 1996 | Robert W. Merry | Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop—Guardians of the American Century | Joseph Alsop; Stewart Alsop |
| March 31, 1996 | Fox Butterfield | All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence | Willie Bosket; Category:Violence in the United States |
| April 7, 1996 | Jean Baker | The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family | Stevenson family |
| April 14, 1996 | Wayne Fields | Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence | Category:United States presidential speeches |
| April 21, 1996 | Robert Kaplan | The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century | Economic inequality; World distribution of wealth |
| April 28, 1996 | David Reynolds | Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography | Walt Whitman |
| May 5, 1996 | David Broder and Haynes Johnson | The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point | Politics of the United States; Clinton health care plan of 1993 |
| May 12, 1996 | Stanley Crouch | The All-American Skin Game, or the Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of it, 1990-1994 | Essays; Race in the United States |
| May 19, 1996 | Michael Sandel | Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy | Political philosophy |
| May 26, 1996 | Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof | In the Name of Sorrow and Hope | Yitzhak Rabin |
| June 2, 1996 | James Thomas Flexner | Maverick's Progress: An Autobiography | Memoir/Autobiography; Historians; George Washington |
| June 9, 1996 | Christopher Matthews | Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America | John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon |
| June 16, 1996 | Albert Murray | Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement | Jazz; Creativity in art; Aesthetics and the philosophy of art |
| June 23, 1996 | Seymour Martin Lipset | American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword | American exceptionalism |
| June 30, 1996 | Glenn Simpson | Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics | Category:Political corruption in the United States |
| July 7, 1996 | Paul Greenberg | No Surprises: Two Decades of Clinton Watching | Bill Clinton |
| July 14, 1996 | Ted Sorensen | Why I Am a Democrat | Memoir/Autobiography; Democratic Party (United States) |
| July 21, 1996 | Eleanor Randolph | Waking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia | Russia |
| July 28, 1996 | James Lardner | Crusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David Durk | David Durk; The New York Police Department |
| August 4, 1996 | Denis Brian | Einstein: A Life | Albert Einstein |
| August 25, 1996 | Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis | War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics | Newt Gingrich; Stanley Greenberg; Frank Luntz; Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Sheila Burke; Maxine Waters |
| September 1, 1996 | Drew Gilpin Faust | Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War | Confederate States of America; History of women in the United States |
| September 8, 1996 | Donald Warren | Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio | Charles Coughlin |
| September 15, 1996 | Lloyd Kramer | Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions | Marquis de Lafayette |
| September 22, 1996 | Michael Elliott | The Day Before Yesterday: Reconsidering America's Past, Rediscovering the Present | Nostalgia; Category:1940s in the United States; Category:1950s in the United States |
| September 29, 1996 | Monica Crowley | Nixon off the Record: His Commentary on People and Politics | Richard Nixon |
| October 13, 1996 | Louise Barnett | Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer | George Armstrong Custer |
| October 20, 1996 | David Friedman | Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life | Economics |
| October 27, 1996 | Paul Hendrickson | The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War | Robert McNamara; The Vietnam War |
| November 3, 1996 | Andrew Ferguson | Fools' Names, Fools' Faces | Essays; Politics of the United States |
| November 10, 1996 | Leon Dash | Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America | Poverty in the United States |
| November 17, 1996 | Conor Cruise O'Brien | The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 | Thomas Jefferson; The French Revolution |
| November 24, 1996 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Memoirs | Memoir/Autobiography; The Soviet Union |
| December 1, 1996 | Robert Bork | Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline | New Left |
| December 8, 1996 | Nell Irvin Painter | Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol | Sojourner Truth |
| December 15, 1996 | President Bill Clinton | Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century | Memoir/Autobiography; The President of the United States |
| December 22, 1996 | David Denby | Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World | Western canon; Homer; Rousseau; Virginia Woolf |
| December 29, 1996 | Stanley Wolpert | Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny | Jawaharlal Nehru |