This Weekend on Book TV: Willful Blindness
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, June 21
12:45 p.m. Jim Noles, author of A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America--One State Quarter at a Time (Da Capo, $25, 9780306815782/0306815788), examines the history of the images on the state quarters. (Re-airs Saturday at 7 p.m.)
2:30 p.m. At an event at Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, Ariz., Andrei Cherny, author of The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour (Putnam, $29.95, 9780399154966/0399154965), talks about how the Soviet blockade of Berlin shaped the Cold War. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m. and Monday, June 30, at 2 a.m.)
5 p.m. For an event at the Harvard Coop, Timothy Colton, author of Yeltsin: A Life (Basic Books, $35, 9780465012718/046501271X), recounts the life of the first elected leader in Russian history. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Book Notes. In a segment that first aired in 1997, John Brady, author of Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater, talked about the former Republican National Committee chair and party leader during the 1980s.
10 p.m. After Words. Hugh Hewitt, host of the Hugh Hewitt Show, interviews Andrew McCarthy, author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad (Encounter Books, $25.95, 9781594032134/1594032130). McCarthy was the lead prosecutor against the men responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday at 12 a.m. and Sunday, June 29, at 12 p.m.)
Sunday, June 22
4:30 p.m. Quil Lawrence, author of Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East (Walker, $25.95, 9780802716118/0802716113), discusses the plight of the 25 million Kurds who live in parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. (Re-airs Sunday, June 29, at 1:30 a.m.)
