Everything about Brian Lamb totally explained
Brian Patrick Lamb (born
October 9,
1941 in Indiana) helped found the
C-SPAN television channels in the United States in
1979, and has been
chief executive officer since its founding. C-SPAN airs live coverage of proceedings of the
United States Congress as well as other public affairs programming. Lamb hosts C-SPAN's morning call-in and interview show,
Washington Journal, once a week, and a weekly one-hour program called
Q&A in which he interviews people from a wide range of backgrounds, such as journalists, teachers, politicians, authors, and technology innovators.
Q&A airs every Sunday night at 8 and 11 p.m. ET.
(External Link
) From
1989 to
2004 he hosted a weekly Sunday night program,
Booknotes, on which he interviewed authors of recent books.
He is the editor of several collections of
Booknotes interviews. Lamb edits out his side of the questioning, leaving something of an essay by the interviewee:
- Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History
- Booknotes: Stories from American History
- Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
- Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
Lamb is also the author of
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites.
According to a
Washington Post profile
(External Link), Lamb has never spoken the words "Brian Lamb" on the air and forbids C-SPAN hosts to say their own names, under the notion that this discipline removes ego from the C-SPAN formula, at least from the host's side.
Lamb was born in
Lafayette,
Indiana. He graduated from
Purdue University where he was a member of the
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
(External Link). Later, he joined the
U.S. Navy. While in the Navy, he served at the
White House during the
Johnson administration. He also served in
the Pentagon's public affairs office, and later in the Office of Telecommunications Policy during the
Nixon administration. In addition to his executive branch experience Lamb also spent time on
Capitol Hill, serving as
press secretary for Sen.
Peter H. Dominick (R-CO).
On
September 26,
2005, it was reported that Lamb married a hometown friend named Victoria Martin.
On February 27, 2003, Lamb received the National Humanities Medal.
On
November 5,
2007, Lamb received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Quotes
"How long's he been dead?" question asked to
Milton Friedman about
Friedrich Hayek, an example of Lamb's unique and direct interviewing style.
"Who was Abraham Lincoln?" question asked to Lincoln biographer
David Herbert Donald about
Abraham Lincoln, another example of a direct, no-frills style. Donald's first response was "Oh, my. What a question!"
Lamb once stated: "
Barbara Walters treated me with disdain. I'll never forget that."
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