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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!

Q&A: Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 1

64 hours 54 mins; January 19, 2025

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), "It Takes Chutzpah - How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change"

58 mins; January 19, 2025

BN+: Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer on His Life & Work

310 hours 38 mins; January 14, 2025

Q&A: Sharon McMahon, "The Small and the Mighty"

63 hours 43 mins; January 12, 2025

AW: Adam Chandler, "99% Perspiration - A New Working History of the American Way of Life"

61 hours 20 mins; January 12, 2025

BN+: Michael Tackett, "The Price of Power"

59 mins; January 07, 2025

Q&A: Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

63 hours 45 mins; January 05, 2025

AW: Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), "We Before Me"

58 mins; January 05, 2025

Brion McClanahan, "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America"

77 hours 5 mins; December 31, 2024

Q&A: Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

65 hours 17 mins; December 29, 2024

BN+: Peter Osnos, "LBJ & McNamara"

58 mins; December 24, 2024

Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

62 hours 2 mins; December 22, 2024

AW: Andy Puzder, "A Tyranny for the Good of Its Victims"

57 mins; December 22, 2024

BN+: Edward Aldrich, "The Partnership"

63 hours 28 mins; December 17, 2024

Q&A: Larry Silverstein, "The Rising"

68 hours 45 mins; December 15, 2024

AW: James Rickards, "MoneyGPT - AI and the Threat to the Global Economy"

63 hours 43 mins; December 15, 2024

BN+: James Bradley, "Martin Van Buren"

66 hours 35 mins; December 10, 2024

Q&A: Malcolm Gladwell, "Revenge of the Tipping Point"

61 hours 25 mins; December 08, 2024

AW: T.J. English, "Los Muchachos,"

62 hours 54 mins; December 07, 2024

AB: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

26 mins; December 05, 2024

BN+: Evan Thomas, "The Wise Men"

56 mins; December 03, 2024

Q&A: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

62 hours 7 mins; December 01, 2024

BN+: Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People"

68 hours 56 mins; November 26, 2024

Q&A: Peggy Noonan, "A Certain Idea of America"

63 hours 27 mins; November 24, 2024

AW: Stephanie Gorton, "The Icon and the Idealist - Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America"

60 hours 37 mins; November 24, 2024

BN+: Talmage Boston, "How the Best Did It"

71 hours 30 mins; November 19, 2024

Q&A: Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

62 hours 1 min; November 17, 2024

AW: Vince Beiser, "Power Metal - The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future"

56 mins; November 17, 2024

AB: James Patterson, "American Heroes"

32 mins; November 14, 2024

BN+: Kyla Scanlon, "In This Economy?"

63 hours 13 mins; November 12, 2024

Q&A: Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

63 hours 45 mins; November 10, 2024

AW: Tom Fitton, "Rights and Freedoms in Peril - An Investigative Report on the Left's Attack on America"

62 hours 15 mins; November 10, 2024

BN+: Tess Owen, "Inside the Patriot Wing"

59 mins; November 05, 2024

AW: Lina Zeldovich, "The Living Medicine"

56 mins; November 03, 2024

Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

61 hours 46 mins; November 03, 2024

AB: Miranda Devine on the Biden Family

33 mins; November 01, 2024

BN+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"

64 hours 57 mins; October 29, 2024

Q&A: Pamela Toler, "The Dragon from Chicago"

64 hours 5 mins; October 27, 2024

AW: Rep. Mike Waltz, "Hard Truths - Think and Lead Like a Green Beret"

65 hours 19 mins; October 27, 2024

BN+: Max Boot, "Reagan: His Life and Legend"

67 hours 41 mins; October 22, 2024

Q&A: John Mackey, "The Whole Story" & Steven Pinker, "Rationality"

67 hours 24 mins; October 20, 2024

AW: Stephanie Baker "Punishing Putin"

63 hours 38 mins; October 20, 2024

BN+: Brenda Wineapple, "Keeping the Faith"

67 hours 49 mins; October 15, 2024

Q&A: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

65 hours 41 mins; October 13, 2024

AW: Brigid Schulte, "Over Work"

60 hours 55 mins; October 12, 2024

AB: Kirk Cameron, "Born to Be Brave

32 mins; October 10, 2024

BN+: Harvey Mansfield on Presidential Immunity

72 hours 59 mins; October 08, 2024

Q&A: Francis Collins, "The Road to Wisdom"

64 hours 7 mins; October 06, 2024

AW: Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom"

62 hours 24 mins; October 05, 2024

BN+: Megan Gorman, "All the Presidents' Money"

65 hours 35 mins; October 01, 2024

Q&A: Michael & Robert Meeropol, Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg on the Rosenberg Spy Case

63 hours 8 mins; September 29, 2024

AW: Paola Ramos, "Defectors -The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America"

59 mins; September 29, 2024

AB: Fall Book Preview 2024

27 mins; September 26, 2024

BN+: Lindsay Chervinsky, "Making the Presidency"

66 hours 31 mins; September 24, 2024

Q&A: James Allen, Jr., "Not My Chair"

54 mins; September 22, 2024

AW: Brooke Harrington, "Offshore - Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

61 hours 9 mins; September 22, 2024

BN+: Dr. Marty Makary, "Blind Spots"

65 hours 45 mins; September 17, 2024

Q&A: Peter Osnos, "LBJ and McNamara"

63 hours 34 mins; September 15, 2024

AW: Kim Wehle, "Pardon Power - How the Pardon System Works - and Why"

60 hours 45 mins; September 14, 2024

AB: Patrick Oliver, founder and CEO of Say It Loud! Readers & Writers

17 mins; September 13, 2024

BN+: Ken Khachigian, "Behind Closed Doors"

63 hours 44 mins; September 10, 2024

Q&A: Steven Ford on Gerald Ford's Presidency

61 hours 58 mins; September 08, 2024

AW: Joel Pollak, "The Agenda - What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days"

57 mins; September 07, 2024

BN+: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 2

64 hours 52 mins; September 03, 2024

Q&A: Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

64 hours 50 mins; September 01, 2024

BN+: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 1

67 hours 20 mins; August 27, 2024

Q&A: Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

64 hours 10 mins; August 25, 2024

BN+: Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money"

66 hours 30 mins; August 20, 2024

Q&A: George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

56 mins; August 18, 2024

BN+: Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

74 hours 11 mins; August 13, 2024

Q&A: World War II Veterans Steven Ellis & Rolf Slen

61 hours 50 mins; August 11, 2024

BN+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

72 hours 28 mins; August 06, 2024

Q&A: Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

62 hours 37 mins; August 04, 2024

BN+: Former Washington Post Reporter & Professor Leon Dash

67 hours 56 mins; July 30, 2024

Q&A: Tammy Bruce, "Fear Itself"

62 hours 59 mins; July 28, 2024

AW: Peter Goodman, "How the World Ran Out of Everything"

60 hours 59 mins; July 27, 2024

BN+: Ronald Feinman, "Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency"

62 hours 4 mins; July 23, 2024

Q&A: J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"

63 hours 51 mins; July 21, 2024

AW: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

62 hours 4 mins; July 21, 2024

AB: The 2024 Kukula Book Review Awards

23 mins; July 19, 2024

BN+: Nigel West, "Operation Garbo"

70 hours 8 mins; July 16, 2024

Q&A: Riley Gaines, "Swimming Against the Current"

62 hours 33 mins; July 14, 2024

AW: Soraya Chemaly, "The Resilience Myth"

59 mins; July 13, 2024

Meg Medina on Reading & Young People

31 mins; July 11, 2024

BN+: Investigative Reporter Brody Mullins on Google & Law Professor Joshua Wright, and "The Wolves of K Street"

70 hours 55 mins; July 09, 2024

Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"

63 hours 22 mins; July 07, 2024

BN+: Robert Schmuhl, "Mr. Churchill in the White House"

72 hours 22 mins; July 02, 2024

Q&A: Frank Bruni, "The Age of Grievance"

64 hours 7 mins; June 30, 2024

AW: Ruchir Sharma, "What Went Wrong with Capitalism"

65 hours 33 mins; June 30, 2024

BN+: David Tatel, "Vision"

72 hours 31 mins; June 25, 2024

Q&A: Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

63 hours 30 mins; June 23, 2024

AW: Lawrence Ingrassia, "A Fatal Inheritance - How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery"

60 hours 35 mins; June 23, 2024

AB: Cass Sunstein on Campus Free Speech

32 mins; June 20, 2024

BN+: Historian Stacey Schiff at Purdue University

70 hours 53 mins; June 18, 2024

Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

62 hours 8 mins; June 16, 2024

AW: Ernesto Londoño, "Trippy - The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics"

65 hours 41 mins; June 15, 2024

BN+: Garrett Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive"

66 hours 32 mins; June 11, 2024

Q&A: George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

55 mins; June 09, 2024

AW: Shefali Luthra, "Undue Burden - Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America"

59 mins; June 08, 2024

AB: Andrea Fleck-Nisbet on Independent Book Publishing

30 mins; June 06, 2024

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