C-SPAN2/BookTV Features Encore Presentation of 1920 Author David Pietrusza and ABC's Ann Compton

C-SPAN2/BookTV's After Words series features an encore of award-winning author David Pietrusza (1920: The Year of the Six Presidents) at 9 AM (Eastern Time)--Monday, May 28, 2007.

(PRWEB) May 26, 2007 -- C-SPAN2/BookTV's After Words series will feature an encore presentation of award-winning author David Pietrusza's discussion of his highly-acclaimed historical work 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents at 9 AM (Eastern Time), Monday, May 28, 2007.

In the episode, Pietrusza is interviewed by ABC White House correspondent Ann Compton.

Pietrusza is the author or editor of over three dozen books is a CASEY Award winner and Edgar Award nominee.

Ann Compton has served as ABC White House correspondent since 1974. Her work on 9/11 has been honored by the Emmy and Peabody awards. She is a member of the Radio Hall of Fame and the Journalism Hall of Fame.

1920 chronicles the presidential election of 1920, one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation's history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was the first election in which women could vote, the first in which the black vote began to play a significant role, and the first under the national prohibition. Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban nation--automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit transformed the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring '20s. 1920 presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots--a picture of modern America at the crossroads.

Publishers Weekly has praised 1920 as "a rousing chronicle. . . Pietrusza . . . adds color and dimension with smart discussions of Prohibition, women's suffrage, immigration, civil rights, the League of Nations and labor strife, and he offers animated portraits of William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Chapman Catt, Henry Ford, Marcus Garvey, Sacco and Vanzetti, William Randolph Hearst, H.L. Mencken and many others. A hugely fascinating episode in American history, told with insight and great humor, by an author in command of his subject."

Kirkus Reviews has praised 1920 as "a hugely fascinating episode in American history, told with insight and great humor, by an author in command of his subject."

John Rothman (KGO-San Francisco) found 1920 to be "an absolutely wonderful book... absolutely marvelous, absolutely wonderful research... just a great read, marvelously done, brilliantly constructed and really integrat[ing the entire story of one year--1920... if I were teaching a history class of early twentieth century America this is the book I would use... It reads like a novel but it's fact... a great book."

President George W. Bush has praised 1920 for "a fine job in capturing the personalities of an interesting cast of political characters and the era in which they lived," while Karl Rove found 1920 "a great read--chock full of great insights and brilliant portraits... a wonderful volume... a great read."

Glenn Raucher of the Writers Voice program says of David Pietrusza: "being both talented writer and expert historian--a combination rarely present in the same person--David manages to balance all of these things, giving us as much information as we need in order to understand what the book tells us: That the election of 1920, and the events and characters surrounding and involved in it, was one of the most remarkable of any ever held in our country. In lesser hands, an 87 year-old political campaign would surely be a recipe for boredom, or irrelevance. But "1920…" connects to our current affairs subtly and unobtrusively, and relates a tale well worth telling, leaving us glad that it is now well-told."

Since its inception in 2005, the weekly one-hour After Words (the successor to C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb's groundbreaking Booknotes) has featured such non-fiction authors as Jimmy Carter, Newt Gingrich, Bob Woodward, Natan Sharansky, Andrea Mitchell, Steve Forbes, Bill Richardson, Madeleine Albright, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Andrea Mitchell, Ari Fleischer, Bob Dole, John Kasich, Simon Schama, George Soros, Kevin Phillips, Tom Tancredo, Ralph Peters, Lee Hamilton, Fred Barnes, Haynes Johnson, Charles Rangel, Jabari Asim, Simon Schama, Rod Paige, Sister Helen Prejean, George Wiegel, Ali Allawi, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Bradley, and Rahm Emmanuel.

Interviewers have included Brian Williams, Tom Daschle, Juan Williams, Susan Eisenhower, Jack Valenti, Marvin Kalb, James Lee Witt, Richard Cohen, Wesley Clark, Naomi Wolf, Peter Beinart, Georgie Ann Geyer, Roger Mudd, Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., Bill Press, Hadassah Lieberman, Linda Chevez, Alive Rivlin, Victoria Toensing, Richard Norton Smith, Marvin Kalb, Thomas Fleming, James Lee Witt, James Zogby, George Will, Naomi Wolf, Peter Beinart, Jack Kemp, and Eleanor Holmes Norton.

1920: The Year of the Six Presidents is a selection of the History Book Club.

For more information contact: 518-374-8894 or visit:
http://www.booktv.com
www.davidpietrusza.com/1920.html.

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