C-SPAN Bookshelf
The C-SPAN Bookshelf podcast feed makes it easy for you to listen to all of the C-SPAN podcast episodes about nonfiction books. Each week we gather episodes from the different C-SPAN podcasts that feature authors talking about history, biography, current events, and culture to make it easier to discover the episodes and listen. If you like nonfiction books, follow this podcast feed so you never miss an episode!
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 375
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
BN+: Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series
Matt Drudge started his website called "The Drudge Report" in 1995. In those early days, he had just 1,000 e-mail subscribers. Within a short time that number jumped to hundreds of thousands. Up unti…
01:06:52 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Q&A: Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"
In "The Lies of the Land," Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) history professor Steven Conn argues that the reality of rural America today is vastly different from the way it is often portrayed by polit…
01:02:24 |
Mon 15 Apr 2024
AW: Batya Ungar-Sargon "Second Class"
Newsweek’s Batya Ungar-Sargon talks with working class Americans about their lives & policies they believe could help get them to the middle class.
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01:01:18 |
Sat 13 Apr 2024
AB: Danny Heitman on Rereading the Classics
Columnist Danny Heitman discussed the importance of rereading classical literature.
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00:29:56 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
BN+: Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"
The book is called "The Real Hoosiers". The author is Pennsylvania-based Jack McCallum. He was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated for 30 years. "The Real Hoosiers" is a book about parts of Indiana…
01:17:02 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"
The Times of London U.S. editor David Charter, author of "Royal Audience," discusses the special relationship that Queen Elizabeth II had with the United States and U.S. presidents over her 70-year r…
01:03:30 |
Mon 08 Apr 2024
AW: Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War"
Journalist Annie Jacobsen chronicled the sequence of events that would occur at home and around the globe following the launch of a nuclear missile. She was interviewed by author and national securit…
01:00:45 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
BN+: Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was a United States Senator for 23 years. He lived to be 63, from January of 1811 to March of 1874. Stephen Puleo has written the first major, full biography of Sumner…
02:06:23 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
Q&A: Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"
Our guest this week is Dr. Uché Blackstock. She and her twin sister, Oni, are graduates of Harvard Medical School, as was their mother, Dr. Dale Gloria Blackstock. In fact, they were the first Black …
01:02:24 |
Mon 01 Apr 2024
AW: Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"
NYU professor Jonathan Haidt argued that technology is harming the social development and mental health of children. He was interviewed by Harvard University Center for Digital Thriving co-director a…
01:02:55 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
AB: Jonathan Karp on 100 years of Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster President & CEO Jonathan Karp discussed the company's 1924 founding, its role in publishing, and some of the authors it has published.
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00:25:41 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
BN+: Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"
Andrew Pettegree is a British historian at St. Andrews University in Scotland. His specialty is the history of the book and media transformations. He has written a great deal about the written word w…
01:06:07 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Q&A: Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic and New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada, author of "The Washington Book," talks about the insights he gleaned from reading the memoirs, political biographies, an…
01:03:39 |
Mon 25 Mar 2024
AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"
New School economic professor Teresa Ghilarducci offered her thoughts on how to make retirement in the U.S. attainable for more Americans. She was interviewed by Washington Post economics corresponde…
01:00:42 |
Sat 23 Mar 2024
BN+: Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"
In Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler's latest book, they open with this introduction: "This is a book of love stories. Every one of them involved a president of the United States, and we will tell their sto…
01:10:09 |
Tue 19 Mar 2024
Q&A: Rob Henderson, "Troubled"
Columnist Rob Henderson talks about growing up as a troubled child in the U.S. foster care system, the hurdles he overcame to become successful, and what he learned about class divisions in America a…
01:03:19 |
Mon 18 Mar 2024
AW: Jane Marie, "Selling the Dream"
Journalist Jane Marie reported on how multilevel marketing businesses make their profits. She was interviewed by Business Insider senior correspondent Emily Stewart.
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01:03:03 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
AB: 2024 Spring Book Preview
National Book Critics Circle board member J. Howard Rosier previewed some of the nonfiction books being released this spring.
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00:31:45 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
BN+: James Traub, "True Believer"
James Traub's latest book is titled "True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America." In the introduction, Mr. Traub writes: "I return to Humphrey in order to explain what liberalism …
01:06:41 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Q&A: Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"
Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman discusses his book "Charlie Chaplin vs. America," about the silent film star's fallout with the U.S. government during the Red Scare. Once a beloved actor and filmmak…
01:04:16 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
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