Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Tuesday 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, February 18
9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Live coverage from the 10th annual Savannah Book Festival in Savannah, Ga. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.). Highlights include:
- 9 a.m. John Tamny, author of Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank (Encounter, $25.99, 9781594038310).
- 10:10 a.m. Cassandra King discusses her late husband's book, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese, $25, 9780385530866).
- 11:20 a.m. Terry McDonell, author of The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers (Knopf, $26.95, 9781101946718).
- 12:30 p.m. William Daugherty, author of In the Shadow of the Ayatollah: A CIA Hostage in Iran (Naval Institute Press, $12.95, 9781557501691).
- 1:40 p.m. Gerri Willis, author of Rich Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How to Survive Obamacare, Trump Wall Street, Kick-start Your Retirement, and Achieve Financial Success (Crown Forum, $26, 9781101903797).
- 2:50 p.m. Dan Slater, author of Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (Simon & Schuster, $26.95, 9781501126543).
6 p.m. Jon Else, author of True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement (Viking, $30, 9781101980934), at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
7:30 p.m. Timothy B. Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781476714844), at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, N.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m. and Tuesday at 12 a.m.)
9 p.m. Kevin Deutsch, author of Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire (St. Martin's Press, $26.99, 9781250110039), at the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 a.m.)
10 p.m. Roger Stone, author of The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution (Skyhorse, $29.99, 9781510726925). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Nato Thompson, author of Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (Melville House, $24.99, 9781612195735), at the Strand in New York City. (Re-airs Sunday at 5 p.m.)
Sunday, February 19
6 p.m. Steve Early, author of Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City (Beacon Press, $27.95, 9780807094266), at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.