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 8
2:30 p.m. Kati Marton, author of True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy (Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781476763767). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
7 p.m. A panel discussion on Hillary Clinton with Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash (Harper, $16.99, 9780062369291), Jerome Corsi, author of Partners in Crime (WND Books, $25.95, 9781944229337), and Tom Fitton, author of Clean House (Threshold Editions, $27, 9781501137044). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and Monday at 1:30 a.m.)
8:30 p.m. C. Nicole Mason, author of Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America (St. Martin's Press, $26.99, 9781250069924). (Re-airs Sunday at 1:30 p.m.)
10 p.m. Mary Thompson-Jones, author of To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect (Norton, $27.95, 9780393246582). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.).
11 p.m. Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe (Norton, $28.95, 9780393254020). (Re-airs Sunday at 6:45 p.m.)
Sunday, October 9
12:15 a.m. Dan Ackerman, author of The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World (PublicAffairs, $25.99, 9781610396110), at BookCourt in New York City. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m.)
8 p.m. Dan Slater, author of Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (Simon & Schuster, $26.95, 9781501126543).
11 p.m. Joseph Lelyveld, author of His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt (Knopf, $30, 9780385350792).
