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Product Identifiers
PublisherPublic Affairs
ISBN-101586482327
ISBN-139781586482329
eBay Product ID (ePID)30206324
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmerican Character : People, Politics, and Conflict in American History
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicTelevision / General, Modern / 20th Century, General, Literary
Publication Year2004
GenreLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorBrian Lamb
Book SeriesBooknotes Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight36.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-040033
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973
SynopsisThe bestselling Booknotes series celebrates C-SPAN's 25th anniversary with a new collection examining our country and its character. Over the past twenty-five years, C-SPAN has established itself as a national treasure. And Booknotes, the flagship of its book programming, has become the premier place to see serious, thoughtful nonfiction get its television due. Over the past fifteen years, Brian Lamb, the CEO of C-SPAN and host of Booknotes, has interviewed 765 authors on the program, and these deep and wide-ranging interviews have been the basis for three bestselling Booknotes books. Now, in a new collection, Booknotes: On American Character, Lamb has selected seventy original pieces that reveal something about America: the nation's people, history, and character. Here are biographies of artists, businessmen, politicians, and inventors; stories of events famous, infamous, and less well-known in the nation's history; a look at how politics works in America and how the nation responds to conflict. Our leading historians, journalists, and public figures draw from a diverse set of sources to examine what kind of nation and people we are. The result is a valuable addition to the Boo