Presidential Campaign Historian Daivd Pietrusza on Book TV InDepth

[shua]

David Pietrusza will be on a live call-in show on CSPAN2's BookTV on Sunday afternoon 12-3.  I haven't read any of his books yet (I plan on reading his book 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents), though I know some people here have. I've seen him before on CSPAN and he's a really interesting speaker. Maybe some forumites have some questions they'd like to call in or email.

http://www.booktv.org/Program/13574/In+Depth+David+Pietrusza.aspx

[Assistant to the Regional Manager Cathcon]

I've seen that book on shelves & it looks awesome, but I always have too many books on my list of future reads.

[Rooney]

Pietrusza is a fine writer, that is true. "1920: The Year of Six Presidents", "1960: JFK vs. LBJ vs. Nixon" and "1948" were incredible works which wove U.S., world, cultural and political history into an interesting array of anecdotes. I always find it interesting  that Pietrusza does not have a PhD. in history but writes far better than most who do.

As for calling in to InDepth I did that once when Tom DiLorenzo was on discussing "Hamilton's Curse" and I did not like the process. My question was short but I was cut off after about twenty seconds of inquiring while some colorful figure got to talk for ten minutes about organic milk. Book TV (and all of C-Span for that matter) is a world unto its own.

[Assistant to the Regional Manager Cathcon]

Pietrusza is a fine writer, that is true. "1920: The Year of Six Presidents", "1960: JFK vs. LBJ vs. Nixon" and "1948" were incredible works which wove U.S., world, cultural and political history into an interesting array of anecdotes. I always find it interesting  that Pietrusza does not have a PhD. in history but writes far better than most who do.

As for calling in to InDepth I did that once when Tom DiLorenzo was on discussing "Hamilton's Curse" and I did not like the process. My question was short but I was cut off after about twenty seconds of inquiring while some colorful figure got to talk for ten minutes about organic milk. Book TV (and all of C-Span for that matter) is a world unto its own.

I was at a relative's cottage this weekend where there are few cable channels and I ended up watching C-Span a lot. Quite the couple of channels. You watch C-Span3 (American History TV on the weekends) much?