Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend 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, October 1
5 p.m. Matthew Dallek, author of Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security (Oxford University Press, $29.95, 9780199743124). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 a.m.)
6:30 p.m. Charles Murray, author of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (Aei Press, $16.95, 9781442260719). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
7:30 p.m. Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon, $35, 9780375423222).
8:45 p.m. Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Crown, $26, 9780553418811), at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.
10 p.m. John Dickerson, author of Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History (Twelve, $30, 9781455540488). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
Sunday, October 2
12 a.m. David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump (Melville House, $24.99, 9781612196329), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:45 p.m.)
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Gerald Horne, author of Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (Pluto Press, $20, 9780745335322). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
10 p.m. Maria Armoudian, author of Reporting from the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs, and an Increasingly Perilous Future (Routledge, $38, 9781138840058).
