List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1989
Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb. It originally aired from 1989 to 2004. The format of the show is a one-hour, one-on-one interview with a non-fiction author. The series was broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time each Sunday night, and was the longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history.
| First broadcast | Author | Book | Subject matter |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century | Communism | |
| Judy Shelton | The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets | The Economy of the Soviet Union | |
| Bruce Oudes | From: The President—Richard Nixon's Secret Files | Richard Nixon | |
| Susan Moeller | Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat | War photography | |
| Henry Brandon | Special Relationships: A Foreign Correspondent's Memoirs | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism | |
| Col. David Hackworth | About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior | Memoir/Autobiography; The Vietnam War | |
| James Fallows | More Like Us: Making America Great Again | Japan – United States relations; Economy of Japan | |
| Gregory Fossedal | The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution | Democracy promotion | |
| Stanley Karnow | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines | Philippine–American War | |
| James MacGregor Burns | The Crosswinds of Freedom | History of the United States ; History of the United States ; History of the United States ; History of the United States | |
| Robert Christopher | Crashing the Gates: The De-WASPing of America's Power Elite | White Anglo-Saxon Protestants; Elitism | |
| Sen. Robert Byrd | The Senate: 1789-1989 | History of the United States Senate | |
| Elizabeth Colton | The Jackson Phenomenon: The Man, The Power, The Message | Jesse Jackson | |
| Nathaniel Branden | ' | Ayn Rand | |
| Roger Kennedy | Orders From France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World | The French Revolution; The U.S. Constitution; France – United States relations | |
| Simon Schama | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution | The French Revolution | |
| George Wilson | Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Army | The United States Army; :Category:United States Army education | |
| Jeanne Simon | Codename: Scarlett—Life on the Campaign Trail by the Wife of a Presidential Candidate | Senator Paul Simon; Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1988 | |
| Michael Kaufman | Mad Dreams, Saving Graces: Poland—A Nation in Conspiracy | Poland; History of Poland | |
| Porter McKeever | Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy | Adlai Stevenson | |
| Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates | The Acting President | Ronald Reagan | |
| Bruce Murray | Journey Into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration | Space exploration; NASA; Space advocacy | |
| Jack Germond and Jules Witcover | Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988 | 1988 United States presidential election | |
| Walter Laqueur | The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost | Glasnost | |
| Thomas Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | Journalism; Middle East | |
| Gen. Ariel Sharon | Warrior: An Autobiography | Memoir/Autobiography; History of the Israel Defense Forces | |
| George Gilder | Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology | Quantum mechanics; Microtechnology | |
| Mort Rosenblum | Back Home: A Foreign Correspondent Rediscovers America | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class | American middle class | |
| Harrison Salisbury | Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June | The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | |
| Kenneth Adelman | The Great Universal Embrace, Arms Summitry—A Skeptic's Account | Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Geneva Summit ; Reykjavík Summit; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty | |
| Rev. Ralph David Abernathy | And the Walls Came Tumbling Down | Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement | |
| Vassily Aksyonov | Say Cheese | Say Cheese is one of the only novels ever featured on Booknotes. | |
| Felix Rodriguez | Shadow Warrior | Memoir/Autobiography'; The Central Intelligence Agency | |
| Robin Wright | In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade | The Ayatollah Khomeini | |
| Peter Hennessy | Whitehall | Her Majesty's Government; Whitehall | |
| Clifford Stoll | The Cuckoo's Egg | Security cracking; Markus Hess | |
| Arthur Grace | Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race | Photojournalism; 1988 United States presidential election | |
| James Reston, Jr. | The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally | John Connally | |
| Richard Rhodes | Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer | Agriculture in the United States; Family farms | |
| William D. Lutz | Doublespeak'' | Doublespeak |