Booknotes Annotations

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Booknotes Annotations
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Brian Lamb interviewed 801 authors during the over fifteen year run of C-SPAN's Booknotes television program. Lamb made a point of reading each book in its entirety before each interview so that he could discuss it in detail with the author. He often spent up to twenty hours a week reading a book and preparing for the subsequent interview. While this thoroughness was normal operating procedure for Brian Lamb, this was not always the case with interviewers of authors on other programs. Lamb took pride in being able to discuss a book's most minute details with its author, as he believed that his audience would be interested as well in this level of detail.
Lamb also had a habit of annotating a book while he read it. He made notes in the margins and endpapers. He would underline single words or whole passages in the main text. These notes were used by Lamb to remind him of things he wanted to ask the author. Notes might pertain to significant events in the book or the education or employment of a book's author or subject. Ideas for questions, quotations, and philosophical, political, historical and scientific concepts were noted along with the names of important people or significant dates.

George Mason University Libraries acquired the entire collection of 801 nonfiction books used on Booknotes in September of 2011. The books are now housed in the Special Collections Research Center.
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1989-2004

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