Documenting C-SPAN: The First Four Decades (1979-2015)

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• David Halberstam on a staircase
  
  Journalist Journalist David Halberstam posing for a photo on a staircase.
• Colin Powell on the Booknotes set
  
  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Booknotes set. During the program, he described how he signed 60,001 copies of "My American Journey" on his book tour. Photo credit: Susan Kennedy.
• Colin Powell autograph in a book
  
  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell used a Sharpie pen to autograph his books, "principally because it gives you a nice bold signature and it's round and soft with no edges, so it didn't give me any calluses." Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• George Will on his computer
  
  Political commentator George Will at work on his laptop in his Georgetown office. Mr. Will finally started using a computer to write his books and columns instead of his favorite Pelikan pen after he fell on the ice and broke his arm in February 1995. Photo credit: Brian Lamb
• George Will on his computer
  
  Political commentator George Will at work on his laptop in his Georgetown office.
• Shelby Foote in his home
  
  Eighty-year-old writer Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. In the upper right corner is a portrait of Marcel Proust. While Brian Lamb was taking this photo, Mr. Foote told him he has read all of Proust's works nine times. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Shelby Foote in his home
  
  Eighty-year-old writer Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Shelby Foote in his home
  
  Eighty-year-old writer Shelby Foote at work in his Memphis home. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Shelby Foot in his office
  
  Shelby Foote in his office and bedroom space.
• Shelby Foot's writing table
  
  Author Shelby Foote's writing table. Mr. Foote wrote 1.5 million words on the Civil War with this dip pen. He described on C-SPAN how he has trouble today finding steel-tip replacements for the pen and often has to bargain with the few stationery stores that still sell them. On the table are a Quimper cup and saucer, a photo of musician Robert Johnson, Vermeer's "person with Pearl Earring," and Mr. Foote's dip pen. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Shelby Foote reviewing a manuscript
  
  Author Shelby Foote is reviewing one of the many handwritten bound manuscripts for his three-volume series on the Civil War. Mr. Foote started working on the trilogy in 1954 and continued to research and write the volumes for the next twenty years. He has now returned to writing novels. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Albert Murray writing
  
  Essayist and critic Albert Murray in his Harlem apartment with his yellow legal pads and the music cassettes he listens to as he writes. It is here that Mr. Murray has written nine books since 1962. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Harlem, New York
  
  Overview of Harlem, New York.
• Albert Murray in his home
  
  Essayist and critic Albert Murray sitting in his apartment with a book open on the floor.
• William Chafe at his desk
  
  Historian William Chafe wrote his biography of the late congressperson Al Lowenstein (D-NY) overlooking Harmon's Harbor in Georgetown, Maine. Photo credit: Gary Bonaccorso.
• William Chafe using a laptop
  
  Historian William Chafe using a laptop computer.
• John Hockenberry in his loft
  
  Author and MSNBC host John Hockenberry writes in his loft on 23rd Street in Manhattan. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Peggy Noonan with a mass card
  
  Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan is pointing at a mass card that once belonged to playwright Tennessee Wiliams. For inspiration, she keeps it taped to the side of her computer in her brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Peggy Noonan and child
  
  Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan facing a child with blonde hair in her presumed office area.
• Peggy Noonan and child
  
  Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan holding a child.
• Stanley Crouch in his apartment
  
  Writer and critic Stanley Crouch writes in his apartment on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village. An avid jazz lover, Mr. Crouch surrounds himself when he works with the music and photos of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Christopher Hitchens writing in a bar
  
  Writer Christopher Hitchens working in his preferred location at the Timberlakes bar near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. When the jukebox is playing, Mr. Hitchens says his concentration improves. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Madeline Cartwright plays with her grandson and a family friend
  
  Author and former school principal Madeline Cartwright takes a break from her computer to play with her grandson Jared, aged seven, and a family friend, Destini, aged eighteen months. On the program, Ms. Cartwright described how she wrote her book on this bed in her home in Philadelphia. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Johanna Neuman and her cat, Smokey
  
  Journalist Johanna Neuman with her cat, Smokey, in her lap, working out of her Bethesda, Maryland home. Her husband, the former press secretary to President Gerald Ford, is in the photograph behind her, holding a press conference in 1975. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Lynn Sherr reviewing microfilm
  
  Lynn Sherr, ABC 20/20 Correspondent and Susan B. Anthony biographer, in New York City, reviewing microfilm of the Anthony papers that she purchased for her book research. Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Charles Kuralt in his writing office
  
  Former CBS reporter Charles Kuralt in his writing office located on West 57th Street in New York. Mr. Kuralt said he wanted to re-create "the feel of a seedy, failing, small gentleman's club." Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Charles Kuralt in his writing office
  
  Former CBS reporter Charles Kuralt in his writing office located on West 57th Street in New York. Mr. Kuralt said he wanted to re-create "the feel of a seedy, failing, small gentleman's club." Photo credit: Brian Lamb.
• Charles Kuralt posing for a photograph
  
  Former CBS reporter Charles Kuralt posing for a photo outside.
• Person with clipboard
  
  A person sitting with a clipboard on their lap and looking at pages in a binder. On the wall is a photo of Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Person with bust of Abraham Lincoln
  
  A person sitting at a desk with a bust of Abraham Lincoln and a publication titled "Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association."