List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2001

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 7, 2001	Martin Goldsmith	The Inextinguishable Symphony	Jüdischer Kulturbund; Category:Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany
January 14, 2001	Dinesh D'Souza	The Virtue of Prosperity	Prosperity
January 21, 2001	Robert Scigliano	The Federalist Papers	The Federalist Papers
January 28, 2001	Arlen Specter	Passion for Truth	Memoir/Autobiography; Single bullet theory; United States Senate
February 4, 2001 and February 11, 2001	Kurt Eichenwald	The Informant: A True Story	Lysine price-fixing conspiracy; Archer Daniels Midland; Mark Whitacre
February 18, 2001	Maurizio Viroli	Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli	Niccolò Machiavelli
February 25, 2001	Bernard Weisberger	America Afire	1800 United States presidential election
March 4, 2001	Dick Gregory	Callus on My Soul: A Memoir	Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement
March 11, 2001	Jeffrey Meyers	Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation	George Orwell
March 18, 2001	Jason Epstein	Book Business: Publishing—Past, Present, and Future	Publishing
March 25, 2001	Reese Schonfeld	Me and Ted Against the World	History of CNN (1980–2003); Ted Turner
April 1, 2001	Don Hewitt	Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television	Memoir/Autobiography; CBS News; 60 Minutes
April 8, 2001	William Cooper	Jefferson Davis, American	Jefferson Davis
April 15, 2001	Andrew Burstein	America's Jubilee	1826 in the United States
April 22, 2001	Emily Bernard	Remember Me to Harlem	Harlem Renaissance; Carl Van Vechten; Langston Hughes
April 29, 2001	Kiron Skinner	Reagan In His Own Hand	Ronald Reagan
May 6, 2001	Susan Dunn and James MacGregor Burns	The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America	Theodore Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt
May 13, 2001	Robert Slayton	Empire Statesman: The Rise & Redemption of Al Smith	Al Smith
May 20, 2001	John Farrell	Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century	Tip O'Neill
May 27, 2001	Diane McWhorter	Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution	Birmingham campaign; 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
June 3, 2001	Rick Perlstein	Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus	Barry Goldwater
June 10, 2001	Morton Kondracke	Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease	Parkinson's disease
June 17, 2001	Edward Said	Reflections on Exile and Other Essays	Essays; Literary criticism; Palestine
June 24, 2001	Alma Guillermoprieto	Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America	Latin America
July 1, 2001	Daniel Schorr	Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism	Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
July 8, 2001	Alan Ebenstein	Friedrich Hayek: A Biography	Friedrich Hayek
July 15, 2001	Sally Satel	PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine	Political correctness; Medicine
July 22, 2001	Jeff Greenfield	Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History	2000 United States presidential election
July 29, 2001	Jay Winik	April 1865: The Month That Saved America	Conclusion of the American Civil War
August 5, 2001	Tom Philpott	Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War	Floyd James Thompson
August 12, 2001	Roger Wilkins	Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism	George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; George Mason
August 19, 2001	Walter Berns	Making Patriots	American nationalism; Patriotism
August 26, 2001	Thomas Fleming	The New Dealers' War	Franklin Roosevelt; Military history of the United States during World War II
September 2, 2001	Herbert Bix	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan	Hirohito; Shōwa period
September 9, 2001	Irvin Molotsky	The Flag, The Poet and The Song	Flag of the United States; The Star-Spangled Banner; Francis Scott Key
September 16, 2001 (Open phones)	James Bamford and Jeffrey Richelson	Body of Secrets; The Wizards of Langley	The Central Intelligence Agency; The National Security Agency; United States Intelligence Community. (Note: This interview, the first one after the September 11 attacks, was aired live and featured viewer calls. It is also the only Booknotes to feature two different authors discussing their own separate books.)
September 23, 2001 (Open phones)	John Steele Gordon	The Business of America	Economy of the United States; Economic history of the United States; Business. (Note: This interview, the second one after the September 11 attacks, was aired live and featured viewer calls.)
September 30, 2001	Hampton Sides	Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission	Battle of Bataan; Raid at Cabanatuan
October 7, 2001	Midge Decter	An Old Wife’s Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War	Memoir/Autobiography; History of women in the United States
October 14, 2001	Fran Grace	Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life	Carry Nation
October 21, 2001	Stephen Kinzer	Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds	Turkey
October 28, 2001	Ted Yeatman	Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend	Frank James; Jesse James; James-Younger Gang
November 4, 2001	Michael Eric Dyson	Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur	Tupac Shakur
November 11, 2001	Joseph Persico	Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage	Franklin D. Roosevelt; Office of Strategic Services; Category:World War II espionage
November 18, 2001	Daniel Pink	Free Agent Nation: How America’s New Independent Workers are Transforming the Way We Live	Employment; Multiple careers
November 25, 2001	Kirkpatrick Sale	The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream	Robert Fulton
December 2, 2001	Laura Claridge	Norman Rockwell: A Life	Norman Rockwell
December 9, 2001	Phyllis Lee Levin	Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House	Woodrow Wilson; Edith Wilson
December 16, 2001	Peter Bergen	Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden	Osama bin Laden
December 23, 2001	Vernon Jordan	Vernon Can Read! A Memoir	Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement
December 30, 2001	Bernard Lewis	What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response	Muslim world