Brian Lamb - Definition and Overview

Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. He hosted the C-SPAN show Booknotes from 1989 to 2004, and hosts Washington Journal once a week.

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 [1] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52388-2002Jul10?language=printer), Lamb has never spoken the words Brian Lamb on the air.

Lamb was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He graduated from Purdue University, going on to join 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.

External links

• Lamb biography (http://www.trumanaward.org/web/LambBio.html)
• Brian Lamb's Flock (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52388-2002Jul10?language=printer), Washington Post
• Lamb speech: "Debunking the Myths of C-SPAN" (http://www.c-span.org/about/company/debunk.asp?code=DEBUNK2)
• 1996 interview with Reason magazine (http://reason.com/9603/fe.LAMB.text.shtml)