This Weekend on Book TV: Reagan's Disciple
Book TV airs on C-Span 2 from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday and focuses on political and historical books as well as the book industry. The following are highlights for this coming weekend. For more information, go to Book TV's website.
Saturday, March 22
10 a.m. Michael Shermer, author of The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics (Times Books, $26, 9780805078329/0805078320), analyzes the evolutionary basis for our thinking on economics. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Book Notes. From a segment first aired in 1990, Carol Barkalow, author of In the Men's House: An Inside Account of Life in the Army by One of West Point's First Female Graduates, talked about the demanding physical training at the academy and the emotional and mental hazing female cadets underwent.
7 p.m. Robert Bennett, author of In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer (Crown, $27.50, 9780307394439/0307394433), chronicles his life, from growing up in Brooklyn to representing high-profile clients in the courtroom. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 a.m. and Sunday, April 6, at 11p.m.)
8 p.m. Geoffrey Stone, author of Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (Rowman & Littlefield, $19.95, 9780742558854/0742558851), discusses the government's desire to keep documents classified and the public's right to know. (Re-airs Sunday at 1:45 p.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, interviews Carl Cannon, co-author of Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy (PublicAffairs, $27.95, 9781586484484/1586484486), about the current administration's desire to be the successor to the Reagan presidency. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday at 12 a.m. and Sunday, March 30, at 12 p.m.)
