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Booknotes : on American character / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407; Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Biographies.; Interviews.; Authors, American; National characteristics, American;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Booknotes : life stories : notable biographers on the people who shaped America / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
George Washington -- Paul Revere -- John Adams -- Thomas Paine -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- Marquis de Lafayette -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Henry Clay -- John C. Calhoun -- Winfield Scott -- Sam Houston -- Sojourner Truth -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Robert E. Lee -- Salmon P. Chase -- Abraham Lincoln -- Walt Whitman -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Rutherford B. Hayes -- George Pickett -- George Armstrong Custer -- John D. Rockefeller, Sr. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Thomas Edison -- Woodrow Wilson -- Theodore Roosevelt -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marcel Proust -- Calvin Coolidge -- Will Rogers -- Albert Einstein -- H.L. Mencken -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Harry Truman -- George Patton -- Dwight Eisenhower -- Charles Coughlin -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Elijah Muhammad -- Amelia Earhart -- Armand Hammer -- F.A. Hayek -- Ernie Pyle -- Adlai Stevenson -- Whittaker Chambers -- Strom Thurmond -- Clare Boothe Luce -- Thurgood Marshall -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Ronald Reagan -- Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill -- Richard Nixon -- Gerald Ford -- Robert McNamara -- Katharine Graham -- John F. Kennedy -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- George Wallace -- Betty Friedan -- Henry Kissinger -- Jimmy Carter -- George Bush -- William F. Buckley, Jr. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Ross Perot -- Frank McCourt -- Rosa Lee Cunningham -- Lee Harvey Oswald -- John Lewis -- Newt Gingrich -- Bill clinton -- Anita Hill.
Subjects: Biographies.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Booknotes : America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
Storytellers. David McCullough ; Shelby Foote ; Forrest McDonald ; James Reston, Jr. ; Edmund Morris ; Doris Kearns Goodwin ; Albert Murray ; Carlo D'Este ; Simon Schama ; Joseph Ellis ; Blanche Wiesen Cook ; Nicholas Basbanes ; Ben Yagoda ; Nathaniel Branden ; Stephen Ambrose ; Martin Gilbert ; David Levering Lewis ; bell hooks ; Monica Crowley ; Deborah Shapley ; Robert A. Caro ; Richard Reeves ; Paul Hendrickson ; Richard Norton Smith ; Clare Brandt ; James Thomas Flexner ; Robert K. Massie ; John Keegan ; Paul Kennedy ; Francis Fukuyama ; Robert Leckie ; Stephen Carter ; Daniel Boorstin ; Stanley Weintaub ; Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; Neil Baldwin ; Robert Remini ; Dr. James Billington ; William H. Chafe ; David Remnick ; Nell Irvin Painter ; David Herbert Donald ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Peggy Noonan ; Charles Kuralt ; Norman Mailer -- Reporters. David Halberstam ; George Will ; James "Scotty" Reston ; Stanley Crouch ; Evan Thomas ; Anna Quindlen ; Pete Hamill ; Elsa Walsh ; Neil Sheehan ; Peter Arnett ; William Prochnau ; Malcolm Browne ; Morley Safer ; Robert Timberg ; David Maraniss ; Lou Cannon ; Stanley Karnow ; Richard Ben Cramer ; Colonel David hackworth ; Johanna Newman ; Nathan McCall ; Lewis Lapham ; Nan Robertson ; Howell Raines ; Andrew Ferguson ; Christopher Hitchens ; Robin Wright ; Colman McCarthy ; William F. Buckley, Jr. ; Richard Rhodes ; Michael Kelly ; Garry Wills ; Kevin Phillips ; David Halevy ; John Leo ; Elaine Sciolino ; Hugh Pearson ; Robert Kaplan ; Thomas Friedman ; R. Emmett Tyrell ; Roger Gittines ; Jack Nelson ; Tina Rosenberg ; James B. Stewart ; Molly Moore ; Lynn Sherr ; John Hockenberry -- Public figures. Jimmy Carter ; Richard Nixon ; Al Gore ; James Baker ; Lani Guinier ; Robert Dole ; Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof ; Colin Powell ; Bill Clinton ; Robert McNamara ; Hanan Ashrawi ; Hillary Rodham Clinton ; George Shultz ; Lewis B. Puller, Jr. ; Clark Clifford ; George Ball ; William Rehnquist ; Mikhail Gorbachev ; Dan Quayle ; Betty Friedan ; Norman Schwarzkopf ; Melba Patillo Beals ; Newt Gingrich ; Madeline Cartwright ; Linda Chavez ; Margaret Thatcher.
Subjects: Interviews.; Authors, American; Authorship.; Books and reading.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Booknotes : stories from American history / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-523) and index.1060L
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Interviews.; Authors, American;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Booknotes : stories from American history / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Interviews.; Authors, American;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Abraham Lincoln : great American historians on our sixteenth president / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407; Swain, Susan.(CARDINAL)539118;
Subjects: Biographies.; Festschriften.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Abraham Lincoln : great American historians on our sixteenth president / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407; Swain, Susan.(CARDINAL)539118;
Subjects: Festschriften.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Biographies.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Sundays at eight : 25 years of stories from C-Span's Q&A and Booknotes / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Stories. Blaine Harden ; Jon Ronson ; April Witt ; Ishmael Beah ; Robert Kurson ; Erik Larson ; Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ; Simon Winchester -- American history. Isabel Wilkerson ; Michael Dobbs ; William Seale ; Don Ritchie ; David McCullough ; Clarence Lusane ; Richard Baker ; Richard Norton Smith -- Media and society. Michelle Fields ; Ken Auletta ; Charles Krauthammer ; Robert Kahn ; Malcolm Gladwell ; Roger Mudd ; W. Joseph Campbell ; Warren Brown ; John F. Burns ; Christopher Hitchens ; Crystal Wright ; Anne Applebaum -- Money and politics. Michael Lewis ; Peter Wallison ; Bethany McLean ; Gretchen Morgenson ; Neil Barofsky ; Bob Ney -- Post-9/11 America. Kenneth Feinberg ; Paul Berman ; Michael Weisskopf ; Dan Reed ; Richard Miniter ; Michael Hastings ; David Wood.Presents a collection of the best unpublished interviews from the past twenty-five years of C-SPAN's "Booknotes" and "Q and A," including discussions with David McCullough, Ron Chernow, April Witt, and John Burns.
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Interviews.; Lamb, Brian, 1941-; C-SPAN (Television network); Booknotes (Television program); Authors, American; Books and reading.; Authorship.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The Supreme Court : a C-SPAN book featuring the justices in their own words / by Farkas, Mark.(CARDINAL)500006; Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407; Swain, Susan.(CARDINAL)539118;
Pt. 1. The justices : Chief Justice John Roberts -- John Paul Stevens -- Antonin Scalia -- Anthony Kennedy -- Clarence Thomas -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Stephen Breyer -- Samuel Alito -- Sonia Sotomayor -- Sandra Day O'connor (retired) -- Pt. 2. Supreme Court experts : Joan Biskupic, reporter, USA Today -- Drew Days III, former Solicitor general -- Lyle Denniston, reporter, SCOTUS blog -- Maureen Mahoney, attorney and former Supreme Court law clerk -- James B. O'Hara, Supreme Court historian -- William Suter, Clerk of the Supreme Court -- Pt. 3. Supplementary material : Biographies of the justices -- Members of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-2010 -- Recent C-SPAN surveys of public awareness of the Supreme Court -- Number of Supreme Court petitions and arguments heard, 1980-2008 -- C-SPAN requests for same-day release of oral arguments -- Excerpt from the opinion Marbury v. Madison -- Biography of John Marshall, the "Great Chief".Collects biographies of and interviews with sitting and recently retired Supreme Court justices, complimented by commentary from legal experts and statistics on arguments heard.
Subjects: Interviews.; United States. Supreme Court.; United States. Supreme Court; Judges;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Who's buried in Grant's tomb? : a tour of presidential gravesites / by Lamb, Brian,1941-(CARDINAL)767407; Bentzel, Anne.(CARDINAL)652704; Hellwig, Carol.(CARDINAL)432853; C-SPAN (Television network)(CARDINAL)769562;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Presidents; Presidents;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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