C-SPAN Bookshelf
Hosted by David M Rubenstein · C-SPAN
4.3from 54 ratings
- 548
- Episodes
- 103
- Transcribed
- 54
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About C-SPAN Bookshelf
The C-SPAN Bookshelf podcast feed makes it easy for you to listen to all of the C-SPAN podcast episodes about nonfiction books. Each week we gather episodes from the different C-SPAN podcasts that feature authors talking about history, biography, current events, and culture to make it easier to discover the episodes and listen. If you like nonfiction books, follow this podcast feed so you never miss an episode!
- Publisher
- C-SPAN
- Category
- arts · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 May 2023
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
103 of 548 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson"
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Q&A: Andrea Mitchell, NBC Chief Washington Correspondent
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
ABC: David Maraniss on Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Vince Lombardi & Jim Thorpe
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Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson"
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But Jefferson, who never escaped debt, chose instead to, it's generally agreed since the DNA testing that took place in 1998 and other evidence that's brought out in the work of Annette Gordon-Reed and in my own, that Sally Hemings, as the half sister of Jefferson's late wife, Patty, may well have looked similar to his late wife. And she was described, Sally was described, she was the seamstress at Monticello. They lived in close proximity, and Jefferson knew her from the time she came to him with the Hemings extended family, all of whom were biracial and treated as, I call them, a parallel subordinate family. […]
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- Andrew Burstein
- Andrea Mitchell
- David Maraniss
- Chris Pope
- Jonathan Jordan
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 53 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
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- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 89
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David M Rubenstein host the show. Published by C-SPAN.
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