Author's Hour


Author’s Hour, with host Terry Tazioli, focuses on books about public policy, politics, and history, with a particular emphasis on Washington and the Pacific Northwest. The show features both hosted interviews and authors’ book readings.


Author’s Hour airs Sundays at Noon, 7pm, and 10pm


Coming Up on Author's Hour:
  • Sunday, June 27: John Hughes, WA Secretary of State's Legacy Project


YOU’RE INVITED!

Be part of a TV audience at the Bellevue King County Library this fall. Author’s Hour takes its usual hiatus during July and August – but host Terry Tazioli will be back at the Bellevue King County Library after Labor Day for more great interviews with fascinating authors. Check back during the summer, when we’ll post the dates for your chance to join the Author's Hour audience.



Episodes:


Author's Hour // Date of Event: June 27, 2010 12:00pm

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From former Governor Booth Gardner to NASA astronaut Bonnie Dunbar, the Washington Secretary of State Office's John Hughes has now penned bios on close to a dozen Evergreen State citizens, chronicling their unique and compelling stories.
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Runtime:50Min
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: June 20, 2010 12:00pm

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Host Terry Tazioli speaks with Solveig Torvik about her book, "The World's Best Place: Norway and the Norwegians," an unblinking look at celebrated, and uncelebrated, aspects of this paradoxical socialist welfare state by a Norwegian-American journalist.
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Runtime:65Min
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: June 13, 2010 12:00pm

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Nathaniel Philbrick speaks on his book "The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn" at The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.
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Runtime:48Min
Ref#:2010050082
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: June 06, 2010 12:00pm

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Heather Rogers speaks on her book "Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution" at Town Hall in Seattle.
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Runtime:56Min
Ref#:2010040048
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: May 30, 2010 12:00pm

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Host Terry Tazioli interviews David Nicandri on his new book, "River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia." In his new book, Nicandri provides a more extensive look at the western-most segment of the Lewis & Clark expedition.
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Runtime:54Min
Ref#:2010050088
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: May 09, 2010 7:00pm

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Craig Welch/"Shell Games" - This fact-is-stranger-than-fiction book tells the story of Detective Ed Volz, who spent years on the trail of a smuggling kingpin dealing in a homely but increasingly fashionable and lucrative Northwest icon: the geoduck.
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Runtime:43Min
Ref#:2010050017
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: May 02, 2010 12:00pm

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Terry McDermott, "101 Theory Drive: One Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory." Former LA Times reporter McDermott profiles UC-Irvine scientist, Gary Lynch, and his decades-long quest to understand the brain's memory machine.
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Runtime:58Min
Ref#:2010050019
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: April 25, 2010 12:00pm

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AH: David Goodstein, "On Fact and Fraud" - looks at actual cases in which fraud was committed/alleged, explaining what constitutes scientific misconduct & what doesn't, and providing the ethical framework needed to discern/avoid fraud.
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Runtime:42Min
Ref#:2010040046
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: April 20, 2010 7:00pm

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Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom discusses his book "China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs To Know" on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Runtime:53Min
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Author's Hour // Date of Event: April 19, 2010 7:30pm

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Pulitzer Prize winning New Yorker editor David Remnick discusses his latest book "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama" at Town Hall in Seattle.
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Runtime:68Min
Ref#:2010040054
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