# List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1993

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 3, 1993 | Michael Davis and Hunter Clark | Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench | Thurgood Marshall |
| January 10, 1993 | Jeffrey Birnbaum | The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington | Lobbying in the United States |
| January 17, 1993 | P.F. Bentley | Clinton: Portrait of Victory | Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992 |
| January 24, 1993 | Robert Gilbert | The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House | Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness; Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Health of Ronald Reagan |
| January 31, 1993 | Benjamin Stein | A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation | Michael Milken |
| February 7, 1993 | Jack Nelson | Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews | The Ku Klux Klan |
| February 14, 1993 | Nathan Miller | Theodore Roosevelt: A Life | Theodore Roosevelt |
| February 21, 1993 | Richard Norton Smith | Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation | George Washington |
| February 28, 1993 | Kay Mills | This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer | Fannie Lou Hamer |
| March 6, 1993 | Alex Dragnich | Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia | Serbs; Croats; Yugoslavia |
| March 13, 1993 | Paul Kennedy | Preparing for the Twenty-First Century | 21st century |
| March 21, 1993 | Deborah Shapley | Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara | Robert McNamara |
| March 28, 1993 | Michael Kelly | Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War | Gulf War; 20th century history of Iraq |
| April 4, 1993 | Nadine Cohodas | Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change | Strom Thurmond |
| April 11, 1993 | Blanche Wiesen Cook | Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933 | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| April 18, 1993 | Douglas Brinkley | The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey | History of the United States |
| April 25, 1993 | Lisa Belkin | First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital | Hermann Hospital; Medical ethics |
| May 2, 1993 | Marshall DeBruhl | Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston | Sam Houston |
| May 9, 1993 | Charles Adams | For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization | Category:History of taxation |
| May 16, 1993 | Anna Quindlen | Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism |
| May 23, 1993 | George Ball | The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present | Israel–United States relations |
| May 30, 1993 | Douglas Davis | The Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the Message | Television in the United States |
| June 6, 1993 | J. Bowyer Bell | The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992 | The Troubles |
| June 13, 1993 | David Brock | The Real Anita Hill | Anita Hill |
| June 20, 1993 | Howard Kurtz | Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers | Newspapers in the United States |
| June 27, 1993 | George Shultz | Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State | Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; United States Secretary of State |
| July 4, 1993 | Joel Krieger | The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World | International relations |
| July 11, 1993 | David Halberstam | The Fifties | United States in the 1950s |
| July 18, 1993 | Molly Moore | A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines | Memoir/Autobiography; United States Marine Corps; Gulf War; War journalism |
| July 25, 1993 | David Remnick | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
| August 1, 1993 | Alexander Brook and Warren H. Phillips | The Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor | Newspapers; Kennebunk, Maine |
| August 8, 1993 | Tom Rosenstiel | Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992 | 1992 United States presidential election; ABC News |
| August 15, 1993 | Lewis Lapham | The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay | Federal government of the United States |
| August 22, 1993 | Harold Holzer | The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | The Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| August 29, 1993 | Peter Macdonald | Giap: The Victor in Vietnam | General Võ Nguyên Giáp |
| September 5, 1993 | Joseph Ellis | Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams | John Adams |
| September 12, 1993 | Ronald Kessler | The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency | The Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| September 19, 1993 | Madeline Cartwright | For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public School | School District of Philadelphia; Public education in the United States |
| September 26, 1993 | Malcolm Browne | Muddy Boots and Red Socks | Memoir/Autobiography; War journalism; Vietnam War |
| October 3, 1993 | Peter Skerry | Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority | Mexican Americans |
| October 10, 1993 | Alan Brinkley | The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People | The History of the United States |
| October 17, 1993 | Christopher Hitchens | For the Sake of Argument | Christopher Hitchens's political views |
| October 24, 1993 | William F. Buckley Jr. | Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist | Memoir/Autobiography; The National Review; Firing Line |
| October 31, 1993 | Andrew Nagorski | The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe | Eastern Europe |
| November 7, 1993 | Charles Mee | Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World | Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun; Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France; Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II; Congress of Vienna; Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Yalta Conference; G7 |
| November 14, 1993 | Herbert Block | Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life | Memoir/Autobiography; Editorial cartoons |
| November 28, 1993 | Betty Friedan | The Fountain of Age | Ageing |
| December 5, 1993 | Margaret Thatcher | The Downing Street Years | Memoir/Autobiography; Premiership of Margaret Thatcher |
| December 12, 1993 | Richard Reeves | President Kennedy: Profile of Power | John F. Kennedy |
| December 19, 1993 | John Podhoretz | Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993 | Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of George H.W. Bush |
| December 26, 1993 | Willard Sterne Randall | Thomas Jefferson: A Life | Thomas Jefferson |