List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1994

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 (with link to transcript / video)	Author	Book	Subject matter
January 2, 1994	David Levering Lewis	W. E. B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919	W. E. B. Du Bois
January 9, 1994	William Bennett	The Book of Virtues	Virtue
January 16, 1994	Carolyn Barta	Perot and His People: Disrupting the Balance of Political Power	Ross Perot; The Reform Party
January 23, 1994	Gary Hymel and Tip O'Neill	All Politics is Local and other Rules of the Game	Memoir/Autobiography; The U.S. House of Representatives; Politics of Massachusetts
January 30, 1994	William Chafe	Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism	Allard Lowenstein
February 6, 1994	Stanley Weintraub	Disraeli: A Biography	Benjamin Disraeli
February 13, 1994	Bill Emmott	Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese	Economy of Japan; Anti-Japanese sentiment
February 20, 1994	Peter Arnett	Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 years in the World's War Zones	Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; The Vietnam War; The Gulf War
February 27, 1994	Stephen Lesher	George Wallace: American Populist	George Wallace
March 6, 1994	Nathan McCall	Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America	Memoir/Autobiography
March 13, 1994	Norman Ornstein	Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It	Taxation in the United States; United States public debt
March 20, 1994	Clare Brandt	The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold	Benedict Arnold
March 27, 1994	John Corry	My Times: Adventures in the News Trade	Memoir/Autobiography; The New York Times
April 3, 1994	Andrew Young	A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young	Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement
April 10, 1994	Fifth Anniversary Special	N/A	Excerpts from and interviews about the first five years of Booknotes
April 17, 1994	James Cannon	Time and Change: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History	Gerald Ford
May 1, 1994	Howell Raines	Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis	Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
May 8, 1994	John Keegan	A History of Warfare	Warfare
May 15, 1994	Forrest McDonald	The American Presidency: An Intellectual History	President of the United States
May 22, 1994	James McPherson	What They Fought For, 1861-1865	American Civil War
May 29, 1994	Pete Hamill	A Drinking Life: A Memoir	Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
June 5, 1994	Stephen Ambrose	D-Day: June 6, 1944—The Climactic Battle of World War II	Operation Overlord
June 12, 1994	Mark E. Neely, Jr.	The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America	Abraham Lincoln
June 19, 1994	Sam Roberts	Who We Are: A Portrait of America	Demographics of the United States; 1990 United States Census
June 26, 1994	Lani Guinier	The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy	Racism in the United States
July 3, 1994	Murray Kempton	Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events	History of the United States; Paul Robeson; Cassius Clay; A. Philip Randolph; Karl Marx; Ronald Reagan; Westbrook Pegler; Alger Hiss; H.L. Mencken; Whittaker Chambers
July 10, 1994	Cal Thomas	The Things That Matter Most	Modern liberalism in the United States; Criticism of the War on Poverty
July 17, 1994	David Hackett Fischer	Paul Revere's Ride	Paul Revere; "Paul Revere's Ride"
July 24, 1994	Dan Quayle	Standing Firm	Memoir/Autobiography; The Vice President of the United States; George H. W. Bush
July 31, 1994	Colman McCarthy	All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence	Nonviolence; Pacifism
August 7, 1994	Peter Collier	The Roosevelts: An American Saga	Roosevelt family
August 14, 1994	Merrill Peterson	Lincoln in American Memory	Abraham Lincoln; Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
August 21, 1994	Hugh Pearson	The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America	Huey Newton; The Black Panthers
August 28, 1994	John Leo	Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police	Political correctness
September 4, 1994	Paul Weaver	News and the Culture of Lying	Journalism; Pseudo-events
September 11, 1994	Shelby Foote	Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign	American Civil War
September 18, 1994	Irving Bartlett	John C. Calhoun: A Biography	John Calhoun
September 25, 1994	Ben Yagoda	Will Rogers: A Biography	Will Rogers
October 2, 1994	Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood	Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.	Washington, D.C.
October 9, 1994	Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	Colored People	African-American history; African Americans in the 1960s
October 16, 1994	Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn	China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power	China
October 23, 1994	Liz Carpenter	Unplanned Parenthood	Parenting; Old age; Lady Bird Johnson
October 30, 1994	David Frum	Dead Right	Republican Party (United States)
November 6, 1994	Bill Thomas	Club Fed: Power, Money, Sex and Violence on Capitol Hill	Political power; Capitol Hill
November 13, 1994	John Kenneth Galbraith	A Journey Through Economic Time	Economics
November 20, 1994	Milton Friedman	Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom	Economics; Classical liberalism
November 27, 1994	Melba Pattillo Beals	Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High	Memoir/Autobiography; Little Rock Central High School; Little Rock Nine
December 4, 1994	Charles Murray	The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life	Intelligence; Race and intelligence
December 11, 1994	Elizabeth Drew	On The Edge: The Clinton Presidency	Bill Clinton; Presidency of Bill Clinton
December 18, 1994	Peter Robinson	Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA	Stanford Graduate School of Business
December 25, 1994	Glenn Frankel	Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel	Israel; Israeli–Palestinian conflict