As a leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. He forever changed the newspaper industry in the South, changing the relationship between politics and the news media..

North Carolina Bookwatch 2012-2013 Archive | UNC-TV

Lee Craig: Josephus Daniels | NC Bookwatch

William Chafe: Bill and Hillary | NC Bookwatch

Do you remember "The Big Fish" the wonderful novel by Daniel Wallace and how it made us suspend disbelief? Well he’s done it again with his latest novel, "The Kings and Queens of Roam” and he is here to tells us about that book and the magic he uses to draws us into his worlds of imagination"and that when we talk to Daniel on North Carolina Bookwatch". next.

Daniel Wallace: The Kings and Queens of Roam | NC Bookwatch

We all know that our health care system is in trouble, but who's responsible? Nortin Hadler says that it is you and me and that we have a duty to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like. And he provides a guide in his latest book, "The Citizen Patient: Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System."

Nortin Hadler, The Citizen Patient | NC Bookwatch

The third and final volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina” series establishes Georgann Eubanks as the master guide to our states literary history. She's already taken us to Murphy and now in “Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina: A Guidebook, "she takes us from Raleigh through the coastal plain, all the way to Manteo and she's here to tell us some of what she learned along the way"

Georgann Eubanks, Literary Trails- East | NC Bookwatch

She lives on a farm in mountainous Madison County north of Asheville & sets her popular novels right there on the farms and small towns were she & her husband have lived since moving there from Tampa, Florida, in 1975. We will find out how she turns her mountain surroundings into compelling fiction when we talk to Vicki Lane about "Under the Skin" on North Carolina Bookwatch..... next.

Vicki Lane: Under the Skin | NC Bookwatch

One thing that most North Carolinians share is a love for our coast. We know our coast is fragile, but do we love it too much to protect it and how can we know what is best to do. Retired East Carolina professor Stanley Riggs will talk to us about “The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future,” on North Carolina Bookwatch……. next.

Stanley Riggs: The Battle for North Carolina's Coast | NC Bookwatch

In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continues her exploration of southern history and memory. This mesmerizing and disquieting novel recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Through the interweaving of several characters' voices, Durban produces a complex narrative in which each section reveals a different facet of the event. The Tree of Forgetfulness resurrects a troubled past and explores the individual and collective loyalties that led a community to choose silence over justice.

Pam Durban: The Tree of Forgetfulness | NC Bookwatch

Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction.

Jill McCorkle: Life after Life | NC Bookwatch

Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student.

Ping Fu: Bend not Break | NC Bookwatch

In this celebration of three legendary champions on the centennial of their births in 1912, one of the most accomplished and successful writers about the game explains the circumstances that made each of them so singularly brilliant and how they, in turn, saved not only the professional tour but modern golf itself.

James Dodson: American Triumvirate

A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a little girl is kidnapped on Sam’s watch he is haunted by guilt, grief, and ghosts from his own troubled past.

Tim Gautreaux: The Missing | NC Bookwatch

A hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime. Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home.

Sheila Turnage: Three Times Lucky | NC Bookwatch

A young woman begs her mountain climbing husband not to take on Mount McKinley in Alaska, but he goes anyway, promising "I will come back to you." But, as she feared, he falls to his death. Still, that promise to return is haunting and how it is fulfilled is the story of "The Memory Thief" a powerful debut novel from Wilmington’s Emily Colin who will be our guest on North Carolina Bookwatch, next.

Emily Colin, The Memory Thief | NC Bookwatch

David Cecelski’s book, The Waterman's Song, introduced us to Abraham Galloway an ex-slave from Wilmington who became an incredible leader of Blacks in North Carolina during the Civil War and later in state government. I became fascinated with Galloway and have waited a long time for David to tell me more with his new book, The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War.

David Cecelski, The Fire of Freedom | NC Bookwatch

UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch is the state’s premier literary series, bringing the Tar Heel State’s best and brightest Southern writers to the small screen. In every illuminating interview, host D.G. Martin sheds light on authors’ lives, books and the state’s indelible imprint on their works. D.G. Martin has hosted North Carolina Bookwatch since the series’ third season in 1999. A Yale Law School graduate and former Green Beret, Martin has been involved with public service, and politics throughout his life, including stints as interim Vice Chancellor for Development and University Affairs at both UNC-Pembroke and North Carolina Central University, work as the Carolinas Director of the Trust for Public Land, and a hard-fought 1998 campaign for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate against John Edwards.