This Weekend on Book TV: Chris Hayes

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, May 27
6:30 p.m. Edward J. Balleisen, author of Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (Princeton University Press, $35, 9780691164557).

7:30 p.m. David Davenport, co-author of Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive? (Hoover Institution Press, $19.95, 9780817920241). Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.

8:30 p.m. Condoleeza Rice, author of Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom (Twelve, $35, 9781455540181). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)

9:45 p.m. Book TV visits the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., to interview professors about their recently published books. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m. and Monday at 1 a.m.)

10 p.m. Chris Hayes, author of A Colony in a Nation (Norton, $26.95, 9780393254228). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)

11 p.m. John McWhorter, author of Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca (Bellevue Literary Press, $19.99, 9781942658207). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:20 p.m. and Monday at 3:15 p.m.)

Sunday, May 28
1:30 a.m. Richard Florida, author of The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class--and What We Can Do About It (Basic Books, $28, 9780465079742). (Re-airs Monday at 5:30 a.m. and Tuesday at 3:30 a.m.)

9 a.m. Liza Jessie Peterson, author of All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island (Center Street, $27, 9781455570911), at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Re-airs Monday at 1:15 a.m.)

1:15 p.m. Nicholas Reynolds, author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 (Morrow, $27.99, 9780062440136). (Re-airs Tuesday at 12 a.m.)

6 p.m. Cass R. Sunstein, author of #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691175515).

10 p.m. Richard Harris, author of Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions (Basic Books, $28, 9780465097906), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Tuesday at 7 a.m.)

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