{"id":5220,"date":"2015-01-12T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2015-01-20T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T19:49:10","slug":"the-booknotes-oral-history-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=5220","title":{"rendered":"The Booknotes Oral History Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Some<\/a>

Some of the 801 volumes that are part of the Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection, George Mason University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the many unique collections housed here at University Libraries\u2019 Special Collections & Archives department is the Booknotes<\/i> collection. Booknotes <\/i>was a popular television program on C-SPAN hosted by the network\u2019s creator, Brian Lamb, which ran from April 1989 through December 2004. The weekly hour-long program featured intense and educational one-on-one interviews with non-fiction authors. Notable guests included Hillary Clinton, David McCullough, and David Crosby, as well as former presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush. A grant from the C-SPAN Education Foundation has allowed SC&A to preserve Lamb\u2019s personal copies of the 801 books that were covered on the program along with notes, correspondence with authors, and reviews.<\/p>\n

To add to this collection the \u201cBooknotes<\/i> Oral History Project\u201d began in the spring of 2014. The project interviews authors who appeared on and others who were involved with the Booknotes<\/i> television program. \u00a0To date we have completed 25 interviews. Through these interviews we investigate the impact of Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, and Booknotes<\/i> on then-contemporary political thought, the reading public, and the individuals involved.<\/p>\n

\"Author<\/a>

Author Douglas Brinkley. Courtesy of Rice University<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

Our most recent interview took place on December 11, 2014 with author Dr. Douglas Brinkley. Dr. Brinkley is a leading historian in American, corporate, presidential, and conservation history who is a professor at Rice University, a fellow at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy, the history commentator for CBS News, and a contributing editor to the magazines Vanity Fair and American Heritage. Because of his prominence we were enthusiastic to secure Dr. Brinkley\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n

\"Author<\/a>

Author Douglas Brinkley appearing on the Booknotes program, April 18, 1993. Courtesy of the C-SPAN Booknotes website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite suffering from a chest cold, Dr. Brinkley spoke for nearly an hour about his experience on the program and how his Booknotes<\/i> appearance, and subsequent friendship with Brian Lamb, ignited the career of the newly-emerging scholar. Dr. Brinkley appeared on Booknotes<\/i> on April 18, 1993 to discuss his book \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThe Majic Bus: An American Odyssey.<\/i> The early exposure of Booknotes <\/i>was a huge launching pad for his career. This helps to show not only how the program could affect an individual author\u2019s career, but it also shows the ways in which Brian Lamb and C-SPAN were tastemakers, influencing which authors became significant voices in American thought.<\/p>\n

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\n[Excerpt from Booknotes Oral History Project Interview with Dr. Douglas Brinkley, December 11, 2014, Booknotes Oral History Collection #R0143. Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.]<\/p>\n

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Dr. Brinkley also discussed how important he thinks the Booknotes<\/i> collection and oral history project are.<\/p>\n

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\n[Excerpt from Booknotes Oral History Project Interview with Dr. Douglas Brinkley, December 11, 2014, Booknotes Oral History Collection #R0143. Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.]<\/p>\n

The complete\u00a0Booknotes<\/i>\u00a0collection is available for viewing in the SC&A Reading Room, Floor 2, Wing C of Fenwick Library.<\/p>\n

You can view the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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