C-SPAN Book TV Roundup for August 21 – August 23, 2010

Here is the round up all of the people who appeared on C-SPAN Book TV programming over the weekend of August 21st through August 23rd, 2010 who also have recent ebook editions of their books. This weekend includes programming from : 2010 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, 2010 Roosevelt Reading Festival, and the 2010 Harlem Book Fair. This is the first roundup since the addition of Kobo links, so welcome to the party Kobo users! If you can’t find something you are interested in this list, you are a hard to please person.

Buy Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation by Sharon Lerner from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy Libby Prison Breakout by Joseph Wheelan from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.


Buy Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.


Buy The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism by Jack Fuller from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous by Harry Stein from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.


Buy War at the Wall Street Journal:Inside the Struggle To Control an American Business Empire by Sarah Ellison from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy The Department of Mad Scientists by Michael Belfiore from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy Red Families v. Blue Families : Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture by Naomi Cahn from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter Beinart from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


Buy The Substance of Hope by William Jelani Cobb from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Dark Days, Bright Nights by Peniel E. Joseph from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.


Buy Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made its Mark on NASCAR by Leonard T. Miller from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.


Buy The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation by Jason Mattera from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from the Kobo store.


C-SPAN Book TV Roundup for July 31 – August 2, 2010

Here is the round up all of the people who appeared on C-SPAN Book TV programming over the weekend of July 31st through August 2nd, 2010 who also have recent ebook versions of their books. This weekend includes programming from : 2010 Eagle Forum Collegians Summit, 2010 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest and FreedomFest 2010.

Just in case anyone wonders at the ordering of books in the monstrously large C-SPAN roundups, it is strictly first come first serve. This list is more or less in the order of the program guide whenever the first time the author appears. For example, that’s why Ralph Nader is at the very bottom – his program runs Sunday and no other author appears for the first time after him.

Buy Authentic Patriotism: Restoring America’s Founding Ideals Through Selfless Action by Stephen P. Kiernan from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy Merchants of Doubt by Erik M. Conway from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Scoundrels in Law: The Trials of Howe and Hummel, Lawyers to the Gangsters, Cops, Starlets, and Rakes Who Made the Gilded Age by Cait N. Murphy from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future by Stephen Kinzer from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.


Buy Such Men as These by David Sears from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776 by William Hogeland from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum by Michael T. Klare from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D’Souza from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics by Steven E. Landsburg from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status by Stephen Moore from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Charles Murray from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics by Michael Shermer from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class by Ed Schultz from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.


Buy Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.


Buy The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Carr, Nicholas from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism by Jack Fuller from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy The Obama Diaries by Laura Ingraham from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy Kaboom by Matthew Gallagher from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.


Buy Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776 by William Hogeland from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.


Buy “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” by Ralph Nader from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.

C-SPAN Book TV Coverage of the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest on June 13, 2010

Here is a post rounding up all of the people who appeared on C-SPAN Book TV coverage of the 2010 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest programming on June 13th, 2010. For authors that appeared anywhere in this programming and have a Kindle edition of any of their books published in the last year, below are links to those books.

Buy The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy The Case for Socialism by Alan Maass from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism by Jack Fuller from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present by Christine Stansell from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy The Wagon and Other Stories from the City by Martin Preib from Amazon for the Kindle.


Buy Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City by Liam T. A. Ford from Amazon for the Kindle.


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