Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
Brian Lamb is the most self-effacing man on television. So, all the questions he asks on his C-SPAN history, politics, and public policy author-interview show,Booknotes, are focused on the book and author at hand. What a concept! As a result, this collection of the show's interviews since its inception in 1989 (divided into "Storytellers," "Reporters," and "Leaders"--the latter including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher) is a treasure trove. Where else could you learn that presidential historian Forrest McDonald writes in the nude? Or thatNew York Timesreporter Malcolm Browne started out as a chemist but left the profession after he accidentally blew up his laboratory?--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.