Ashley N. Schaeffer
             Writing, Psychology, Education
Copywriting
C-SPAN Booknotes

www.booknotes.org

Between 2007 and 2009, I spearheaded a project to archive and index all of C-SPAN's Booknotes programs and make them searchable online. This involved dividing each program into approximately 20 segments and attaching a descriptive headline to each. Below are some samples. 


  Between Hope & History: Meeting America's Challenges
  for the 21st Century, by President Bill Clinton
  Seamus Heaney Influenced Title of Clinton's Book
  Second Inaugural Speech More Important Than First
  Clinton Discusses Motivations Behind His Book


A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation, by Benjamin Stein
Stein Considers Milken Conspiracy Worst Financial Fraud in History
Milken Fraud Represents Huge Failure of Public Policy
Stein Endured Considerable Abuse From the PR Machine
 

 
Colored People, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  First Draft of Book Written in Letter Form to Daughters
  Gates Wrote Book in Response to Mother's Death
  Jonathan Yardley Accused Gates of Using Artificial Voice


Impostors in the Temple, by Martin Anderson

Anderson Is a Senior Fellow at Hoover Institute

Trustees Often Avoid Their Fiduciary Responsibilities
Anderson Was Elected President of Graduate Student Body at MIT

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