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
- 374
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
AB: Goodreads and "Review-Bombing"
New York Times books reporter Elizabeth Harris discusses the review website Goodreads and how the platform can help and hurt sales, especially for lesser-known authors.
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00:32:00 |
Fri 18 Aug 2023
BN: Alan Philps, "The Red Hotel"
The Metropol Hotel is located near the Bolshoi Theatre in downtown Moscow. When it opened in 1901 it was the symbol of Russia's growing prosperity. After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, it was often u…
01:05:54 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
Q&A: James Rosen, "Scalia"
By advancing his judicial philosophies of "originalism" and "textualism," Antonin Scalia became one of the 20th century's most influential justices. This week, James Rosen talks about Book One of his…
01:02:25 |
Mon 14 Aug 2023
BN: Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks.com
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder of OpenTheBooks.com and lives in Hinsdale, Illinois. OpenTheBooks.com says it is "the largest private repository of U.S. public sector spending." The mission is to po…
01:05:22 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
Q&A: Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848
In this episode, you'll meet Ilyon Woo, author of a new bestseller-- "Master Slave, Husband Wife." She recounts the harrowing journey of self-emancipation made by two enslaved Georgians--William and …
01:00:18 |
Mon 07 Aug 2023
AW: Matt Lewis, "Filthy Rich Politicians"
Daily Beast 's Matt Lewis explored how American politics is fueled by wealth & offered reforms on how to hold elected officials more accountable. He was interviewed by RealClearPolitics columnist and…
01:00:46 |
Sun 06 Aug 2023
AB: Cormac McCarthy & the Publishing Industry
Emory University professor Dan Sinykin discusses the late novelist Cormac McCarthy and how his career was nurtured by the publishing industry.
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00:30:54 |
Fri 04 Aug 2023
BN: Katherine Clarke, "Billionaires' Row"
Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Clarke, in her book "Billionaires' Row," admits that: "Part of my motivation for writing this book was that as a reporter I can't help but observe that the colo…
01:02:15 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
Q&A: Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"
A year before Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School was desegregated, 12 Black students in Clinton, Tennessee, enrolled, by court mandate, in Clinton High School's 1956 Fall semester. Historian R…
01:02:45 |
Mon 31 Jul 2023
AW: Judge Amul Thapar, "The People's Justice - Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him"
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Amul Thapar discussed the judicial philosophy of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas & recounted some of Thomas's key opinions. He was interviewed by USA Today Supreme C…
00:59:25 |
Sun 30 Jul 2023
BN: Rebeccah Heinrichs, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow
In the past 18 months, since the start of the Russia-Ukraine War, the threat of a possible nuclear war is mentioned in the media almost every day. There are 9 countries in the world that reportedly h…
01:03:04 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
Q&A: Felix Salmon, "The Phoenix Economy"
Axios chief financial correspondent Felix Salmon, author of "The Phoenix Economy," talks about the long-term social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He argues that while the pandemic was…
01:01:51 |
Mon 24 Jul 2023
AW: Wesley Lowery, "American Whitelash - A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress"
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wesley Lowery argued that moments of progress in race matters in the U.S. are often met with acts of violence. He was interviewed by Columbia University Graduate Sch…
01:02:38 |
Sun 23 Jul 2023
AB: Artificial Intelligence and the Publishing Industry
Publishing analyst and consultant Thad McIlroy talked about the impact artificial intelligence might have on the publishing industry. About Books also reported on the latest publishing industry news …
00:32:02 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
BN: Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries"
As we begin the 2024 presidential campaign, we hear the word "inflation" in almost every candidate's speech. One issue that is always mentioned is the price of food. Benjamin Lorr spent several years…
01:01:57 |
Tue 18 Jul 2023
Q&A: Joshua Zeitz, "Lincoln's God"
Historian and Politico contributing writer Joshua Zeitz, author of "Lincoln's God," talks about the impact of faith on America's 16th president. Zeitz contends that as a young man, Abraham Lincoln wa…
01:02:53 |
Mon 17 Jul 2023
AW: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, "The Overlooked Americans"
USC public policy professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett argued that rural & urban America have more in common than what Americans have been led to believe. She was interviewed by former Senator Heidi He…
01:00:23 |
Sun 16 Jul 2023
BN: Martha Hodes, "My Hijacking"
On January 6, 1970, TWA flight 741 from Israel to New York was hijacked and flown to the Jordanian desert. Historian Martha Hodes, at the time 12 years old, was on that plane along with her sister Ca…
01:05:08 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
Q&A: Tania Branigan, "Red Memory"
Guardian newspaper editorial writer and former China correspondent Tania Branigan, author of "Red Memory," talks about China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), during which millions of Chinese were k…
01:00:56 |
Mon 10 Jul 2023
AB: Graphic Artist Jerry Craft on Book Bans
Author and illustrator Jerry Craft discusses attempts to remove his graphic novels from school libraries.
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00:33:28 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
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