# List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1990

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, 1990 | Sig Mickelson | From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News |
| January 14, 1990 | John Barry | The Ambition and the Power | Jim Wright; Newt Gingrich |
| January 21, 1990 | Fitzhugh Green | George Bush: An Intimate Portrait | George H. W. Bush |
| January 28, 1990 | Charles Fecher | The Diary of H. L. Mencken | H. L. Mencken |
| February 4, 1990 | Jim Mann | Beijing Jeep: American Business in China | Jeep Cherokee (XJ); Automobile industry in China; U.S.-China economic relations |
| February 11, 1990 | David Burnham | A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS | the Internal Revenue Service |
| February 18, 1990 | Peggy Noonan | What I Saw at the Revolution | Ronald Reagan; Reagan Administration |
| February 25, 1990 | Michael Fumento | The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS | AIDS |
| February 27, 1990 | Hedley Donovan | Right Places, Right Times | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Time Magazine |
| March 4, 1990 | Richard Barnet | The Rockets' Red Glare: When America Goes to War—The Presidents and the People | Military history of the United States; Home front; United States home front during World War II |
| March 11, 1990 | Frederick Kempe | Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affairs with Noriega | Manuel Noriega; United States invasion of Panama |
| March 18, 1990 | David Halevy | Inside the PLO | The Palestine Liberation Organization |
| March 25, 1990 | James Abourezk | Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate | Memoir/Autobiography; The United States Senate; South Dakota |
| April 1, 1990 | Fred Graham | Happy Talk: Confessions of a TV Newsman | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News |
| April 8, 1990 | Leonard Sussman | Power, The Press and The Technology of Freedom | History of the World Wide Web; Integrated Services Digital Network |
| April 15, 1990 | Helmut Schmidt | Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective | Memoir/Autobiography; West Germany |
| April 22, 1990 | Michael Barone | Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan | 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) |
| April 29, 1990 | Robert Caro | Means of Ascent | Lyndon Johnson |
| May 6, 1990 | Morley Safer | Flashbacks on Returning to Vietnam | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Aftermath of the Vietnam War |
| May 13, 1990 | Brian Duffy and Steven Emerson | The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation | Pan Am Flight 103 |
| May 20, 1990 | Allister Sparks | The Mind of South Africa | South Africa |
| May 27, 1990 | Bette Bao Lord | Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic | Memoir/Autobiography; Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; Television in the People's Republic of China |
| June 3, 1990 | Dusko Doder | Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| June 10, 1990 | Thomas Sowell | Preferential Policies: An International Perspective | Affirmative action; Reverse discrimination |
| June 17, 1990 | Judith Miller | One, By One, By One: Facing the Holocaust | Aftermath of the Holocaust; Holocaust historiography; Holocaust commemoration |
| June 24, 1990 | Kevin Phillips | The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath | Reaganomics |
| July 1, 1990 | Chris Ogden | Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power | Margaret Thatcher |
| July 8, 1990 | Denton Watson | Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws | Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. |
| July 15, 1990 | Caspar Weinberger | Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon | Memoir/Autobiography; Reagan Administration; U.S. Department of Defense |
| July 22, 1990 | Teresa Odendahl | Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite | Philanthropy in the United States |
| July 29, 1990 | Michael Shapiro | In the Shadow of the Sun: A Korean Year of Love and Sorrow | Memoir/Autobiography; Economy of South Korea |
| August 5, 1990 | Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman | Every Spy a Prince | Israeli Intelligence Community |
| August 12, 1990 | Roger Kimball | Tenured Radicals | Modern liberalism in the United States; Higher education in the United States; Tenure |
| August 19, 1990 | Tad Szulc | Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WWII | Aftermath of World War II; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s |
| August 26, 1990 | Christopher Wren | The End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and China | Communism; The Soviet Union; China |
| September 2, 1990 | Lee Edwards | Missionary for Freedom: The Life and Times of Walter Judd | Walter Judd |
| September 9, 1990 | Robert Dole | Historical Almanac of the United States Senate | History of the United States Senate |
| September 16, 1990 | M.A. Farber | Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax | Tawana Brawley rape allegations |
| September 23, 1990 | Jannette Dates | Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media | Representation of African-Americans in media |
| October 14, 1990 | Harold Stassen | Eisenhower: Turning the World Toward Peace | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| October 21, 1990 | Tim Weiner | Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget | Military budget of the United States |
| October 28, 1990 | Pat Choate | Agents of Influence: How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic System | Lobbying in the United States; Japan – United States relations |
| November 4, 1990 | Paul Taylor | See How They Run: Electing a President in an Age of Mediaocracy | 1988 United States presidential election |
| November 11, 1990 | Blaine Harden | Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent | Africa |
| November 18, 1990 | Jean Edward Smith | Lucius D. Clay: An American Life | Lucius D. Clay |
| November 25, 1990 | Martin Mayer | The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry | Savings and loan crisis |
| December 2, 1990 | Cpt. Carol Barkalow | In the Men's House | Memoir/Autobiography; Women in the military; United States Military Academy |
| December 9, 1990 | Sally Bedell Smith | In All His Glory | William S. Paley |
| December 16, 1990 | Shen Tong | Almost a Revolution | Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 |
| December 23, 1990 | John Wallach and Janet Wallach | Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder | Yasser Arafat |
| December 30, 1990 | Garry Wills | Under God: Religion and American Politics | Religion and politics in the United States |