C-SPAN Bookshelf

C-SPAN

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,...

Episodes

Harvey Mansfield, "Where Harvard Went Wrong"

Q&A: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776

ABC: Heather Cox Richardson on Democracy, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War

AW: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care

Bruce Nichols, "The Emerson Circle"

Q&A: Historian & Biographer Robert Caro

ABC: Douglas Brinkley on America at 250, D-Day, and the Space Race

The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms

Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise"

Q&A: Jean Becker & Tom Collamore, "Don't Tell the President"

ABC: America’s Book Club: Andrew Ross Sorkin in Conversation with David Rubenstein

AW: Palantir's CTO on Rebuilding the American Industrial Base

Antony Beevor, "Rasputin"

Q&A: Howard Mortman, "Extreme Mortman" Podcast Host

ABC: Pulitzer Finalist Alice McDermott Talks Novels and Writing Process with David Rubenstein

AW: What is conciousness? with Michael Pollan

Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"

Q&A: Carla Kaplan, "Troublemaker"

ABC: David Rubenstein on the Presidency, Congress & Economy — Interview with Evan Smith at Tulane Book Festival

AW: The Problem with Plastic