Former President, Richard M. Nixon writing in the Lincoln sitting room at the White House. Nixon told "Booknotes" host Brian Lamb that he liked to write in that room when he was president.
General Norman Schwarzkopf on the "Booknotes" set visiting with (from left) Mem Considine, Brian Lamb's aunt Eileen O'Gara, and Bobbsie Ross, all from the Northern Chicago suburbs.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev explaining something to Brian Lamb minutes before they started taping their "Booknotes" interview. Gorbachev spoke only Russian, but Brian had a simultaneous translation coming into his earpiece.
Professor Doug Brinkley. who wrote the book titled Majic Bus: An American Odyssey, stands next to a C-Span bus in 1996. "Booknotes" host and C-Span President, Brian Lamb was so inspired by Brinkley's description of his bus that C-SPAN decided to get into the bus-tour business. In 1993, the network launched the first C-SPAN bus; visits were in such high demand that C-SPAN created a twin C-SPAN school bus in 1995. The two buses served as production and presentation vehicles.
Dr. Harold Holzer is in his office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, surrounded by memorabilia from the 1858 debates. Holzer's book inspired a C-SPAN re-creation of the seven historic Lincoln-Douglas debates.
George Washington biographer Richard Norton Smith stands before the tomb of the first president at Washington's Virginia home in Mount Vernon. Smith explained on "Booknotes" that he has visited the grave of every former president. "Intrigued by this idea," Brian Lamb wrote, "I later retraced Mr. Smith's presidential graveyard tour."
Biographer Joseph Ellis surveys the marginalia of President John Adams at the Boston Public Library. He described Adams' informal notes as "in some ways, the most revealing statements of his political philosophy."
Forrest McDonald working on his secluded porch in Coker, Alabama. During his "Booknotes" interview, Mr. McDonald admitted that he usually writes in the nude on this porch.
In preparation for her biography on Benedict Arnold, Clare Brandt retraced his journeys up the Hudson River and around Lake Champlain. She's pictured in a motorboat in front of West Point Military Academy.
Author Nell Painter, who wrote a book on Sojourner Truth, reported that Sojourner Truth spent a great deal of time knitting. Before her "Booknotes" interview, Brian Lamb discovered the author knitting, "and I could not resist taking a picture capturing the shared hobby of the author and her subject," Brian wrote.
"In December 1996," Brian wrote, "we took ("Booknotes") to the White House map room to interview President Clinton about his book Between Hope and History. The president is pictured here with C-SPAN books producer Robin Scullin on the right and C-SPAN cameraman Greg Fabic in the background. Robin was the primary researcher" for the first "Booknotes" book.
Brian Lamb with Mary Matalin (in overalls) in her Washington, D.C. radio studio for The Mary Matalin Show on the CBS Radio Network. One photo features Ms. Matalin with a producer.
Photos of book buyers and the audience listening to Brian's talk at the Borders book store in downtown Washington (1801 K Street, NW). Three C-SPAN employees are seated in chairs (from left to right Anne Bentzel, Robin Scullin and Anne Marie Dinardo).
Brian Lamb signing a book at an event at Olsson's book store at Washington DC's Metro Center, 1200 F Street, NW. Bottom image shows Brian's view of his audience at a book talk at Olsson's Book Store at Metro Center in Washington, DC.
