Saturday, Sept. 30:
9-10 a.m.: (recorded Friday evening) Opening Gala, featuring Laura Bush, Librarian of Congress James Billington, and authors Khaled Hosseini, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Sharon Draper
10-10:30
a.m.: Doris Kearns Goodwin,
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 10:35-11:15 a.m.: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers 11:15-11:45 a.m.: Taylor Branch,
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 11:50-12:20 p.m.: Robert Remini,
The House: The History of the House of Representatives12:30-1 p.m.: Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin,
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer 1-1:10 p.m.: James Reston, Jr.,
Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey1:10-1:40 p.m.: Bruce Feiler,
Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion 1:40-1:50 p.m.: Christopher Buckley,
Thank You for Smoking1:50-2:20 p.m.: John Hope Franklin,
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin 2:30-3 p.m.: Douglas Brinkley,
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast 3-3:10 p.m.: Khaled Hosseini,
The Kite Runner3:10-3:50 p.m.: Nathaniel Philbrick,
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3:50-4:20 p.m.: Andrew Carroll,
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families 4:30-5 p.m.: Bob Woodward interviewed by Richard Norton Smith