List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2004
Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which 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 |
| Brenda Wineapple | Hawthorne: A Life | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| Walter Mears | Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning—A Reporter’s Story | Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism | |
| John Seigenthaler | James K. Polk | James K. Polk | |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842 | Charles Wilkes; The United States Exploring Expedition | |
| Abigail Thernstrom | No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning | Education outcomes in the United States by race and other classifications | |
| Nikki Giovanni | The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998 | Poetry | |
| Jon Meacham | Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship | Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Special Relationship | |
| Kenneth Silverman | Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse | Samuel Morse | |
| George Soros | The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power | Foreign policy of the United States | |
| Richard Perle | An End to Evil | The War on Terror | |
| John Dean | Warren G. Harding | Warren G. Harding | |
| Constance Hays | The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company | The Coca-Cola Company | |
| Michael Dobbs | Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America | Operation Pastorius | |
| Nicholas Capaldi | John Stuart Mill: A Biography | John Stuart Mill | |
| Martin Marty | Martin Luther | Martin Luther | |
| David Cay Johnston | Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich – and Cheat Everyone Else | Taxation in the United States | |
| Christopher Benson | Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America | Emmett Till | |
| Eric Lax | The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle | Penicillin | |
| Charles Ogletree | All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education | Brown v. Board of Education | |
| John Lewis Gaddis | Surprise, Security, and the American Experience | Burning of Washington; Attack on Pearl Harbor; September 11 attacks | |
| Joseph Califano | Inside: A Public and Private Life | Memoir/Autobiography | |
| Thomas P.M. Barnett | ' | Grand strategy; Foreign policy of the United States | |
| Amy Goodman | The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them | Political corruption; Corruption in the United States; Concentration of media ownership | |
| Samuel Huntington | Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity | Culture of the United States | |
| and | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar | Joseph Stalin |
| Alyn Brodsky | Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician | Benjamin Rush | |
| Robert Kurson | ' | Bill Nagle; John Chatterton; Underwater diving; German submarine U-869 | |
| Mark Perry | Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America | Ulysses S. Grant; Mark Twain | |
| Mario Cuomo | ' | Abraham Lincoln | |
| John McCain | Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life | Courage | |
| Maureen Dowd | Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk | George W. Bush | |
| Denny Hastert | Speaker: Lessons from 40 Years in Coaching and Politics | Memoir/Autobiography'; The U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Dorie McCullough Lawson | Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children | Letters | |
| James Chace | 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs—The Election That Changed the Country | Woodrow Wilson; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Eugene Debs; United States presidential election of 1912 | |
| Richard Viguerie | America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power | Conservatism in the United States; Advertising mail; Conservative talk radio | |
| George McGovern | The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition | Modern liberalism in the United States; Founding Fathers of the United States | |
| Bryan Burrough | Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 | Federal Bureau of Investigation; :Category:Depression-era gangsters | |
| Jack Matlock, Jr. | Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended | Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev; Cold War | |
| John Ferling | Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 | John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; United States Presidential election of 1800 | |
| Hendrik Hertzberg | Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 | Politics of the United States | |
| John McCaslin | Inside the Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops and Shenanigans from Around the Nation's Capital | Politics of the United States; The Washington Times | |
| Antony Beevor | The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | |
| Chris Wallace | Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage | Courage; Whiskey Rebellion; Emancipation Proclamation; Pullman Strike; Second Bank of the United States; Impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969 and The Great Society; Virginius Affair; Treaty of Portsmouth; The League of Nations; 1972 Nixon visit to China; Reagan Doctrine; Embargo Act of 1807; Lend-Lease; Berlin Airlift; Bay of Pigs Invasion; George W. Bush and the Iraq War | |
| Winslow Wheeler | The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security | Military budget of the United States | |
| Stephen Greenblatt | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| Peter Charles Hoffer | Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud – American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin | Historiography; Historical method; Plagiarism; Stephen Ambrose; Michael Bellesiles; Joseph Ellis; Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| Peter Wallner | Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son | Franklin Pierce | |
| Mark Edmundson | Why Read?'' | Literature |