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, November 12
12 p.m. David Remnick, David Maraniss, Jonathan Alter and Jacob Weisberg discuss their respective biographies of Presidents Obama, Clinton, Carter and Reagan. (Re-airs Sunday at 4:15 p.m.)
7 p.m. Nicholas Eberstadt, author of Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis (Templeton Press, $12.95, 9781599474694). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
8 p.m. Danny Orbach, author of The Plots Against Hitler (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780544714434), at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
9 p.m. Deirdre Bair, author of Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend (Nan A. Talese, $30, 9780385537155). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:15 p.m.)
10 p.m. George Borjas, author of We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative (Norton, $26.95, 9780393249019). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Bradley Birkenfeld, author of Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy (Greenleaf Book Group Press, $26.95, 9781626343719). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
Sunday, November 13
12 a.m. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott, authors of Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Princeton University Press, $39.95, 9780691157245). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
8:30 a.m. Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation (St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250048592). (Re-airs Monday at 1:40 a.m.)
10 p.m. Laura Trevelyan, author of The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty (Yale University Press, $28, 9780300223385).
