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, March 18
4 p.m. A. Roger Ekirch, author of American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution (Pantheon, $30, 9780307379900), at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, N.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
6 p.m. Doug Wead, author of Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy (Center Street, $27, 9781478921424). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
7 p.m. David Phillips, author of An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship (Transaction Publishers, $25.95, 9781412865456). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:15 a.m.)
8:15 p.m. Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria (Nation, $27.99, 9781568585321), at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)
9 p.m. Peggy Grande, author of The President Will See You Now: My Stories and Lessons from Ronald Reagan's Final Years (Hachette, $28, 9780316396455). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
10 p.m. Sylvia Tara, author of The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You (Norton, $26.95, 9780393244830). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar, authors of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? (Oxford University Press, $24.95, 9780190253271). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, March 19
1:45 p.m. Adrian Miller, author of The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas (University of North Carolina Press, $30, 9781469632537). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
5:45 p.m. John Pomfret, author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present (Holt, $40, 9780805092509). (Re-airs Monday at 6:15 a.m.)
