# List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2000

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 2, 2000 and January 9, 2000 | Thomas Keneally | The Great Shame and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World | Irish diaspora; Irish migration to Great Britain; Irish Canadians; Irish Americans; Irish Australians; History of Ireland (1801–1923); Great Famine (Ireland) |
| January 16, 2000 | William Least Heat-Moon | River-Horse: A Voyage Across America | Travel literature; The United States of America |
| January 23, 2000 | Isaac Stern | My First 79 Years | Memoir/Autobiography; Classical music; Violins |
| January 30, 2000 | Robert Novak | Completing the Revolution: A Vision for Victory in 2000 | Conservatism in the United States; United States elections, 2000; 2000 United States presidential election; United States House of Representatives elections, 2000; United States Senate elections, 2000; United States gubernatorial elections, 2000 |
| February 6, 2000 | Arthur Herman | Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator | Joseph McCarthy |
| February 13, 2000 | Arianna Huffington | How to Overthrow the Government | Politics of the United States |
| February 22, 2000 | Cornel West | The Cornel West Reader | Essays; African American studies |
| February 27, 2000 | Gina Kolata | Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It | 1918 flu pandemic |
| March 5, 2000 | David Haward Bain | Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad | First transcontinental railroad |
| March 12, 2000 | Howard Zinn | A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present | U.S. History; Populism |
| March 19, 2000 | Loung Ung | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | Memoir/Autobiography; Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia |
| March 26, 2000 | John Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | Occupation of Japan |
| April 2, 2000 | Philip Short | Mao: A Life | Mao Zedong |
| April 9, 2000 | Tavis Smiley | Doing What's Right: How to Fight for What You Believe In - And Make a Difference | Essays |
| April 16, 2000 | Allen Guelzo | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President | Abraham Lincoln |
| April 23, 2000 | Walter Mosley | Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History | Politics of the United States; Economics of the United States |
| April 30, 2000 | Ward Connerly | Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences | Memoir/Autobiography; Affirmative action |
| May 7, 2000 | David Wise | Cassidy's Run: The Street Spy War Over Nerve Gas | History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States; Counterintelligence |
| May 14, 2000 | Stephanie Gutmann | The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? | Women in the military; Military history of the United States |
| May 21, 2000 | James Perry | A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents - Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready | History of journalism; The American Civil War |
| May 28, 2000 | David Crosby | Stand and Be Counted: Making Music, Making History | Memoir/Autobiography; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; The Byrds |
| June 4, 2000 | Zachary Karabell | The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election | Harry S. Truman; 1948 United States presidential election |
| June 11, 2000 | Dan Baum | Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty | Category:Coors family; Coors Brewing Company |
| June 18, 2000 | Joyce Appleby | Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans | History of the United States (1789–1849); Timeline of United States history (1790–1819) |
| June 25, 2000 | Francis Wheen | Karl Marx: A Life | Karl Marx |
| July 9, 2000 | James Bradley | Flags of Our Fathers | Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima |
| July 16, 2000 | Brooks Simpson | Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity | Ulysses S. Grant |
| July 23, 2000 | Elizabeth Taylor | American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley | Richard J. Daley |
| July 30, 2000 | David Brooks | Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There | Yuppies; American upper class; Meritocracy |
| August 6, 2000 | H. Paul Jeffers | An Honest President: The Life & Presidencies of Grover Cleveland | Grover Cleveland |
| August 13, 2000 | Jane Alexander | Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics | Memoir/Autobiography; National Endowment for the Arts |
| August 20, 2000 | Harry Stein | How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy | Memoir/Autobiography; American Left; Conservatism in America |
| August 27, 2000 | Ted Gup | The Book of Honor: Covert Lives & Classified Deaths at the CIA | The Central Intelligence Agency |
| September 3, 2000 | Harold Bloom | How to Read and Why | Literature |
| September 10, 2000 | Lerone Bennett | Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream | Abraham Lincoln |
| September 17, 2000 | Alan Murray | The Wealth of Choices: How the New Economy Puts Power in Your Hand & Money in Your Pocket | The New Economy |
| September 22, 2000 | Karen Armstrong | Islam: A Short History | Islam |
| September 24, 2000 | Michael Paterniti | Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | Albert Einstein's brain |
| October 1, 2000 | Nina Easton | Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade | Bill Kristol; Ralph Reed; Clint Bolick; Grover Norquist; David McIntosh |
| October 8, 2000 | Diane Ravitch | Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms | Education reform |
| October 15, 2000 | Rick Bragg | Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg | Journalism |
| November 5, 2000 | Bonnie Angelo | First Mothers | |
| November 12, 2000 | William Duiker | Ho Chi Minh: A Life | Ho Chi Minh |
| November 19, 2000 | Maya Lin | Boundaries | Memoir/Autobiography; Architecture; Public art; Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| November 26, 2000 | Murray Sperber | Beer & Circus | College athletics |
| December 10, 2000 | Frank Rich | Ghost Light: A Memoir | Memoir/Autobiography; Broadway theatre |
| December 17, 2000 | Harvey Mansfield | Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| December 24, 2000 | Robert Putnam | Bowling Alone | Social capital; Civil society |
| December 31, 2000 | Peter Hitchens | The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana | Political history of the United Kingdom (1945–present) |