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Booknotes: On American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History
By Brian Lamb
PublicAffairs, 591 pages, $29.95
C-SPAN celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new collection drawn from Brian Lamb’s TV interview show, “Booknotes.” The 70 excerpts here focus on the national response to change, from Dorothy Height on the civil rights movement, to Kirkpatrick Sale on Robert Fulton and the steamboat, to Roy Morris on the disputed presidential election of 1876.