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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!

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594 episodes

  1. BN+: Journalist Eric Sevareid on His Life & Career 1:02:20
  2. Q&A: David Hume Kennerly, "In the Room" 1:01:47
  3. ABC: Jared Diamond on Evolution, Human Sexuality & Why Is Sex Fun? 1:01:49
  4. How Companies Use Your Data to Charge You More 52:11
  5. Booknotes+: Walter Stahr, "William Howard Taft" 1:02:41
  6. Q&A: Kelly Stewart-Harcourt & Aaron Burns, "Jimmy" 1:02:52
  7. Annette Gordon-Reed & Douglas Brinkley on the People and Events That Shaped America 45:55
  8. AW: "The Art of the Obituary" with NYT Obituarist, Sam Roberts 1:05:09
  9. BN+: Shawn Gude, "American Socialist" 1:07:35
  10. Q&A: Dana Bash, "The Elections That Changed the World" 1:02:58
  11. America's Book Club: Newt Gingrich on His Political Career, Congress, and Writing More Than 40 Book 59:01
  12. AW: Jill Lepore on "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State" 1:01:45
  13. Booknotes+: Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The Cauldron" 1:11:59
  14. Q&A Podcast: Kerry Kennedy, "Ethel" 1:03:27
  15. America’s Book Club: Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis on War, Global Conflict, and Their Bestselling Thrillers 1:01:53
  16. AW: "Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs" 1:04:43
  17. BN+: John Ryan, "America's Trial" 1:41:25
  18. Q&A: Brad Ryan, "Grandma Joy and Me" 1:03:41
  19. Min Jin Lee on “Pachinko,” Her Literary Career & Meeting King Charles 1:02:13
  20. AW: Dad Brain - The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives 57:47
  21. BN+: Sam Roberts, "Are They Dead Yet?" 1:10:56
  22. Q&A: Mitch Daniels, "Impatience Is a Virtue" 1:02:08
  23. ABC: Nathaniel Philbrick on the Mayflower, George Washington & the California Gold Rush 1:01:34
  24. AW: "Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco" 1:10:44
  25. BN+: Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Investigative Reporter 1:04:31
  26. Q&A: Zayd Ayers Dohrn, "Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young" 1:01:55
  27. ABC: Scott Turow on Legal Thrillers, Writing & Artificial Intelligence 1:00:01
  28. BN+: Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson" 1:08:08
  29. Q&A: Andrea Mitchell, NBC Chief Washington Correspondent 1:02:05
  30. ABC: David Maraniss on Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Vince Lombardi & Jim Thorpe 1:00:47
  31. AW: The American Way of Welfare 1:09:34
  32. BN+: Jonathan Jordan, "Ike and Winston 1:12:47
  33. Q&A: Kenneth Feinberg, "What Is Life Worth?" 1:05:06
  34. ABC: Susan Page on Queen Elizabeth’s Relationships With 13 U.S. Presidents 1:00:24
  35. AW: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose with Martha Raddatz 1:10:25
  36. BN+: Scott Greenberger, "The Forsaken Founder" 1:04:46
  37. Q&A: 9/11 Oral Histories 1:05:22
  38. ABC: Kai Bird on Roy Cohn, American Scoundrel & American Prometheus 1:00:17
  39. AW: Amazon Labor Union Co-Founder, Chris Smalls 1:06:15
  40. BN+: Joby Warrick, "The Jackal" 1:04:14
  41. New York Times Photographer Doug Mills on Covering the White House 1:03:32
  42. AW: Joanna Stern's Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything 1:05:20
  43. BN+: Paul Taylor, "This Is Getting Old" 1:06:18
  44. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776 50:31
  45. After Words: A Woman's-Eye View of the Revolutionary Era 50:21
  46. BN+: JD Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy" 1:03:27
  47. Q&A: Historian & Biographer Robert Caro 1:03:24
  48. BN+: John Jenkins, "Summer of '71" – Part 2 1:09:52
  49. Jennifer Levasseur, Space History Curator 59:07
  50. BN+: John Jenkins, "Summer of '71" – Part 1 57:09