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, May 13
12 p.m. Jennifer D. Keene, author of World War I: The American Soldier Experience (Bison Books, $21.99, 9780803234871). (Re-airs Sunday at 12:30 a.m.)
12:53 p.m. Michael Neiberg, author of The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Oxford University Press, $29.95, 9780190464967). (Re-airs Sunday at 1:23 a.m.)
1:44 p.m. Robert Dalessandro, author of Over There: America in the Great War (Stackpole Books, $24.95, 9780811714853). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:14 a.m.)
2:45 p.m. David Barron, author of Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781451681970). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:15 a.m.)
4:45 p.m. Geoffrey Stone, author of Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century (Liveright, $35, 9780871404695). (Re-airs Monday at 1:30 a.m.)
7 p.m. Noam Chomsky, author of Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power (Seven Stories Press, $19.95, 9781609807368), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
8:20 p.m. Alvin Felzenberg, author of A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. (Yale University Press, $35, 9780300163841). (Re-airs Sunday at 5 p.m.)
10 p.m. Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Penguin Press, $28, 9781594206757). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Amy Goldstein, author of Janesville: An American Story (Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781501102233), at Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, Wis. (Re-airs Sunday at 3:30 p.m.)
Sunday, May 14
9 a.m. The awarding of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize, given by the Nieman Foundation and the Columbia University School of Journalism to a non-fiction book about an "American topic of political or social concern." (Re-airs Sunday at 7:45 p.m.)
1 p.m. Jennifer Earl, author of Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age (MIT Press, $24, 9780262525060). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
10 p.m. Dean Buonomano, author of Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time (Norton, $26.95, 9780393247947).
