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PA Books

PA Books is a weekly program on PCN that features an hour-long conversation with authors of newly published books on topics unique to Pennsylvania. After more than 20 years on the air, the program continues to produce an extensive video collection of interviews with the experts on Pennsylvania's history and culture. PA Books has preserved key moments for Pennsylvania by focusing on significant events like the Battles of Gettysburg and the Industrial Revolution, examining the lives of Pennsylvania's most famous citizens like W.C. Fields and Andrew Mellon, and hosting notable guests like Pulitzer Prize-Winner Joseph Ellis and former Phillies' greats Bill White and Tug McGraw. Back when it premiered on PCN in 1996, PA Books was only available on PCN on cable. With the PCN Select streaming service, viewers can stream new and on demand episodes of PA Books at any time.

New episodes air Sundays at 7 PM. You can also catch your favorite episodes daily at 8 AM.

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Upcoming Episodes:

January 31: “Hell with the Lid Off” with Ed Gruver and Jim Campbell - "Hell with the Lid Off" looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies. The roots of their rivalry dated back to the 1972 playoff game in Pittsburgh that ended with the “Immaculate Reception,” Franco Harris’s stunning touchdown that led the Steelers to a win over the […]
Dick Thornburgh – “Where the Evidence Leads” -       Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania Governor and US Attorney General, died on December 31 at the age of 88. Gov. Thornburgh served as Pennsylvania’s 41st Governor from 1979- 1987, and was known for his handling of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. In 1988, he was appointed US Attorney General by President […]

Weekly Schedule

Date Time Episode
Monday January 2508:00 AMPA Books "Preserving the White Man's Republic"
Tuesday January 2608:00 AMPA Books "Doo-dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture"
Wednesday January 2708:00 AMPA Books "Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything"
Thursday January 2808:00 AMPA Books "Flight 93"
Friday January 2908:00 AMPA Books "The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance"
Sunday January 3107:00 PMPA Books "Hell with the Lid Off"

 On Demand - PA Books
PA BOOKS PROMO 2020 (25Yrs)
Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again, PA Books
Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976, PA Books
Dead Letters: Delivering Unopened Mail From a Pennsylvania Ghost Town, PA Books
The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution, PA Books
Geography, Geology, and Genius: How Coal and Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution - PA Books
The Houses of Louis Kahn, PA Books
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, PA Books
Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player, PA Books
Out of the Woods: From Deerfield to the Grand Circuit, PA Books
Playing Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, The 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA - PA Books


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  • 2020 PA Books: Becoming Philadelphia

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  • 2020 PA Books: Dead Letters

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  • 2020 PA Books: Emotional Gettysburg

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  • 2020 PA Books: George Washington’s Nemesis

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  • 2020 PA Books: Ghost River

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  • 2020 PA Books: Horne’s & Kaufmann’s

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