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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!

BN+: Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"

68 hours 32 mins; June 04, 2024

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

61 hours 29 mins; June 02, 2024

AW: Mike Hixenbaugh, "They Came for the Schools"

60 hours 41 mins; June 01, 2024

BN+: Glenn Loury, "Late Admissions"

73 hours 41 mins; May 28, 2024

Q&A: Betty Koed, "Scenes"

64 hours 19 mins; May 26, 2024

BN+: Alan Taylor, "American Civil Wars"

67 hours 27 mins; May 21, 2024

Q&A: Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"

64 hours 24 mins; May 19, 2024

AW: Jim Wallis, "The False White Gospel"

61 hours 53 mins; May 18, 2024

BN+: Craig Whitlock, "Fat Leonard"

79 hours 25 mins; May 14, 2024

Q&A: Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife"

60 hours 39 mins; May 12, 2024

AW: Johann Hari, "Magic Pill"

64 hours 10 mins; May 11, 2024

AB: Children's Book Author Jonah Winter on Censorship

31 mins; May 09, 2024

BN+: Larry Tye, "The Jazzmen"

65 hours 12 mins; May 07, 2024

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

63 hours 47 mins; May 05, 2024

AW: David Sanger, "New Cold Wars"

60 hours 1 min; May 04, 2024

BN+: Carolyn Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain"

72 hours 0 mins; April 30, 2024

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

62 hours 56 mins; April 28, 2024

AW: Susan Page, "The Rulebreaker - The Life and Times of Barbara Walters"

60 hours 49 mins; April 27, 2024

AB: Publishing Analyst Brenna Connor on Book Sales in 2024

30 mins; April 25, 2024

BN+: Joseph Epstein, "Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life"

65 hours 8 mins; April 23, 2024

Q&A: Zachary Treitz & Christian Hansen, "American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders"

64 hours 50 mins; April 21, 2024

AW: Eddie Glaude, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"

64 hours 48 mins; April 20, 2024

BN+: Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series

66 hours 52 mins; April 16, 2024

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

62 hours 24 mins; April 14, 2024

AW: Batya Ungar-Sargon "Second Class"

61 hours 18 mins; April 13, 2024

AB: Danny Heitman on Rereading the Classics

29 mins; April 11, 2024

BN+: Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"

77 hours 2 mins; April 09, 2024

Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"

63 hours 30 mins; April 07, 2024

AW: Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War"

60 hours 45 mins; April 06, 2024

BN+: Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"

126 hours 23 mins; April 02, 2024

Q&A: Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"

62 hours 24 mins; March 31, 2024

AW: Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"

62 hours 55 mins; March 30, 2024

AB: Jonathan Karp on 100 years of Simon & Schuster

25 mins; March 28, 2024

BN+: Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"

66 hours 7 mins; March 26, 2024

Q&A: Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"

63 hours 39 mins; March 24, 2024

AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"

60 hours 42 mins; March 23, 2024

BN+: Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"

70 hours 9 mins; March 19, 2024

Q&A: Rob Henderson, "Troubled"

63 hours 19 mins; March 17, 2024

AW: Jane Marie, "Selling the Dream"

63 hours 3 mins; March 16, 2024

AB: 2024 Spring Book Preview

31 mins; March 14, 2024

BN+: James Traub, "True Believer"

66 hours 41 mins; March 12, 2024

Q&A: Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"

64 hours 16 mins; March 10, 2024

AW: Dr. Elizabeth Comen, "All in Her Head"

61 hours 5 mins; March 09, 2024

BN+: Peter Englund, "November 1942"

69 hours 23 mins; March 05, 2024

Q&A: Katie Rogers, "American Woman"

63 hours 17 mins; March 03, 2024

AW: Kara Swisher, "Burn Book - A Tech Love Story"

60 hours 2 mins; March 02, 2024

Tony Lyons of Skyhorse Publishing

30 mins; February 29, 2024

BN+: Jim Trusty, Defense Attorney

63 hours 47 mins; February 27, 2024

Q&A: Patti Davis, "Dear Mom and Dad"

55 mins; February 25, 2024

AW: Marie Arana, "LatinoLand - A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority"

55 mins; February 24, 2024

BN+: Glenn Kirschner, Former Federal Prosecutor & "Justice Matters" Host

68 hours 27 mins; February 20, 2024

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

66 hours 9 mins; February 18, 2024

AW: Andrew Curran, "Who’s Black and Why?"

63 hours 46 mins; February 17, 2024

AB: Daniel Paisner on Ghostwriting

32 mins; February 15, 2024

BN+: Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg"

69 hours 24 mins; February 13, 2024

Q&A: Charles Scribner III, "Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing"

63 hours 20 mins; February 11, 2024

AW: Coleman Hughes, "The End of Race Politics"

60 hours 14 mins; February 10, 2024

BN+: Benn Steil, "The World That Wasn't"

68 hours 25 mins; February 06, 2024

QA: Sebastian Thrun, AI Pioneer & Tech Entrepreneur

62 hours 37 mins; February 04, 2024

AW: Ijeoma Oluo, "Be a Revolution"

58 mins; February 03, 2024

AB: Mary Beth Tinker on Book Bans & Free Speech

28 mins; February 01, 2024

BN: H.W. Brands, "Founding Partisans"

68 hours 9 mins; January 30, 2024

QA: Betty Koed, "Scenes"

62 hours 5 mins; January 28, 2024

AW: Donald McNeil, "The Wisdom of Plagues - Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics"

55 mins; January 27, 2024

BN: Ep 150 Nigel Hamilton, "FDR at War" Trilogy

77 hours 36 mins; January 23, 2024

AW: David Stockman, "Trump's War on Capitalism"

60 hours 32 mins; January 20, 2024

AB: Brad Meltzer's Ordinary People Change the World Series

32 mins; January 18, 2024

BN: Kira Anne West, Defense Attorney

65 hours 49 mins; January 16, 2024

AW: Rachel Slade, "Making It in America"

62 hours 39 mins; January 13, 2024

BN: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife"

65 hours 13 mins; January 09, 2024

Q&A: Cassandra Good, "First Family"

62 hours 30 mins; January 07, 2024

AW: Peter Biskind, "Pandora's Box - How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV"

63 hours 48 mins; January 06, 2024

AB: John Sargent, "Turning Pages"

31 mins; January 04, 2024

BN: Ross Perot on His Life & Career

65 hours 11 mins; January 02, 2024

Q&A: Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

62 hours 44 mins; December 31, 2023

BONUS EPISODE: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen

11 mins; December 27, 2023

BN: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "How Do We Get Out of Here?"

42 mins; December 26, 2023

Q&A: Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for a Reason"

63 hours 2 mins; December 24, 2023

BN: Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear"

75 hours 23 mins; December 19, 2023

Q&A: Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"

62 hours 4 mins; December 17, 2023

AW: Tim Alberta "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory"

62 hours 13 mins; December 16, 2023

BN: Michael Bryant (Co-Editor), "Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust"

66 hours 32 mins; December 12, 2023

Q&A: Daryl Davis, Musician & Author

62 hours 12 mins; December 10, 2023

AW: Jeff Horwitz, "Broken Code Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets"

64 hours 5 mins; December 09, 2023

AB: Transit Books with Adam Levy

32 mins; December 08, 2023

BN: McKay Coppins, "Romney"

61 hours 57 mins; December 05, 2023

Q&A: Erik Larson, "In the Garden of Beasts"

62 hours 58 mins; December 03, 2023

AW: Jennifer Burns, "Milton Friedman - The Last Conservative"

64 hours 7 mins; December 02, 2023

BN: Historians Douglas Brinkley, Joanne Freeman, Edna Medford and H.W. Brands on the Experiment of Democracy in America

92 hours 32 mins; November 28, 2023

Q&A: Jesse Holland, "The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House"

63 hours 7 mins; November 26, 2023

BN: Sarah Ogilvie, "The Dictionary People"

64 hours 58 mins; November 21, 2023

Q&A: Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence.”

63 hours 35 mins; November 19, 2023

AW: Fei-Fei Li, "The World's I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI"

60 hours 0 mins; November 18, 2023

BTSA: "The Words of Cesar Chavez" with historian Miriam Pawl

35 mins; November 17, 2023

BN: Martin Gurri, "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium"

64 hours 9 mins; November 14, 2023

Q&A: Rosemary Stevens, "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau"

62 hours 24 mins; November 12, 2023

AW: Greg Lukianoff, "The Canceling of the American Mind"

60 hours 56 mins; November 11, 2023

BTSA: "Free to Choose" Milton & Rose Friedman with Prof. Mark Skousen

28 mins; November 10, 2023

AB: Stephen Friot, "Containing History"

34 mins; November 09, 2023

BN: Robert Hartley, "Purpose, Power & Prison"

57 mins; November 07, 2023

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