C-SPAN is launching a new primetime series focused on “the ideas that shaped America’s past, challenge the nation’s present, and inspire our future.”
The network will air America’s Book Club this fall, it announced in a news release. The series will be hosted by David M. Rubenstein, the lawyer and author of books including The American Story and The Highest Calling.
The show will be taped in front of live audiences at three cultural institutions. Guests appearing at the Library of Congress include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, John Grisham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Arthur Brooks, and José Andrés. The National Archives will host Walter Isaacson and Stacy Schiff, while David Grann will appear at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
“C-SPAN is taking an ambitious step forward with America’s Book Club," the network’s CEO, Sam Feist, said in a statement. "We are proud to launch a flagship series featuring guests of the highest stature in American letters and public thought, interviewed by David Rubenstein, a lover of history and an engaging interviewer. This program is a landmark cultural initiative designed to inspire, inform, and engage viewers with the ideas and thought leaders shaping our nation’s future."
There is as yet no premiere date for the series.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
