List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1995

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 1, 1995	Doris Kearns Goodwin	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Home Front in World War II	Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; United States home front during World War II
January 8, 1995	Robert Wright	The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are -- The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology	Evolutionary Psychology
January 15, 1995	Anthony Cave Brown	Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century	St. John Philby; Kim Philby; The Cambridge Five
January 22, 1995	Marvin Olasky	The Tragedy of American Compassion	Criticism of The War on Poverty
January 29, 1995	Steven Waldman	The Bill: How the Adventures of Clinton's National Service Bill Reveal What Is Corrupt, Comic, Cynical, and Noble about Washington	Corporation for National and Community Service
February 5, 1995	M. Stanton Evans	The Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition	Political freedom; Economic freedom
February 12, 1995	Philip Howard	The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America	Individual and group rights
February 19, 1995	Jimmy Carter	Always a Reckoning and Other Poems	Poetry
February 26, 1995	Alan Ryan	Introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America	Alexis de Tocqueville; Democracy in America
March 5, 1995	Lynn Sherr	Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words	Susan B. Anthony
March 12, 1995	Donald Kagan	On the Origins of War	War
March 19, 1995	Neil Baldwin	Edison: Inventing the Century	Thomas Edison
March 26, 1995	James Loewen	Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong	Textbooks; Eurocentrism
April 2, 1995	Gertrude Himmelfarb	The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values	Victorian morality
April 9, 1995	Stanley Greenberg	Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority	American middle class
April 16, 1995	Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler	Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave	The Third Wave (Toffler book); Post-industrial society
April 23, 1995 (Pt. 1 and Pt. 2)	Robert McNamara	In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam	The Vietnam War
April 30, 1995	Michael Klare	Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign Policy	Foreign Policy of the United States
May 7, 1995	David Maraniss	First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton	Bill Clinton
May 14, 1995	Tim Penny and Major Garrett	Common Cents	Politics of the United States; Federal government of the United States
May 21, 1995	Linn Washington	Black Judges on Justice	Category:African-American judges; Robert N. C. Nix, Jr.
May 28, 1995	John Niven	Salmon P. Chase: A Biography	Salmon P. Chase
June 4, 1995	Hanan Ashrawi	This Side of Peace	Memoir/Autobiography; Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
June 11, 1995	Peter Brimelow	Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster	Immigration to the United States
June 18, 1995	Yuri Shvets	Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America	The KGB; History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States
June 25, 1995	Norman Mailer	Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery	Lee Harvey Oswald
July 2, 1995	Ari Hoogenboom	Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President	Rutherford B. Hayes
July 9, 1995	DeWayne Wickham	Woodholme: A Black Man's Story of Growing Up Alone	Memoir/Autobiography; African Americans
July 16, 1995	Armstrong Williams	Beyond Blame: How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency Barrier	Blame; Affirmative action in the United States
July 23, 1995	Newt Gingrich	To Renew America	United States history; Conservatism in the United States
July 30, 1995	John Hockenberry	Moving Violations: A Memoir—War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence	Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Physical disability
August 6, 1995	Marc Fisher	After the Wall: Germany, The Germans, and the Burdens of History	Germany; The Berlin Wall
August 13, 1995	Robert D. Richardson, Jr.	Emerson: The Mind on Fire	Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 20, 1995	Cartha "Deke" DeLoach	Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant	J. Edgar Hoover; The Federal Bureau of Investigation
August 27, 1995	Robert Timberg	The Nightingale's Song	John McCain; Bud McFarlane; Oliver North; John Poindexter; Jim Webb; The U.S. Naval Academy; The Vietnam War; The Iran-Contra Affair
September 3, 1995	Robert Leckie	Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II	The Battle of Okinawa
September 10, 1995	Emory Thomas	Robert E. Lee: A Biography	Robert E. Lee
September 17, 1995	Elsa Walsh	Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women	Meredith Vieira; Rachael Worby; Alison Estabrook
September 24, 1995	Irving Kristol	Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea	Neoconservatism
October 1, 1995	Andrew Sullivan	Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality	Homosexuality
October 8, 1995	Susan Eisenhower	Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love	Memoir/Autobiography; Roald Sagdeev
October 15, 1995	Nicholas Basbanes	A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books	Bibliomania; Bibliophilia
October 22, 1995	David Fromkin	In The Time of Americans: The Generation that Changed America's Role in the World	History of U.S. foreign policy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower; George Marshall; Douglas MacArthur
October 29, 1995	Ben Bradlee	A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures	The Washington Post
November 5, 1995	Marlin Fitzwater	Call the Briefing! Bush and Reagan, Sam and Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press	Memoir/Autobiography; White House Press Secretary; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; Category:Presidency of George H. W. Bush
November 12, 1995	Pierre Salinger	P.S., A Memoir	Memoir/Autobiography; White House Press Secretary; Kennedy Administration
November 19, 1995	bell hooks	Killing Rage: Ending Racism	Racism in the United States
November 26, 1995	Sanford Ungar	Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants	Immigration to the United States
December 3, 1995	James Baker	The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992	Memoir/Autobiography; United States Secretary of State; George H. W. Bush
December 10, 1995	David Brinkley	A Memoir	Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
December 17, 1995	Evan Thomas	The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared—The Early Years of the CIA	The Central Intelligence Agency
December 24, 1995	David Herbert Donald	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln
December 31, 1995	Charles Kuralt	Charles Kuralt's America	The United States of America; CBS News Sunday Morning