This Weekend on Book TV: The Roosevelt Reading Festival

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, June 24
10:30 a.m. Zoe Quinn, author of Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate (PublicAffairs, $27, 9781610398084), at BookExpo.

12 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Coverage from the 14th annual Roosevelt Reading Festival at the FDR Presidential Library & Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y., which took place on Saturday, June 17. Highlights include:

  • 12 p.m. Steve Twomey, author of Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781476776460). (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
  • 12:45 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 Sunday at 12:45 a.m.)
  • 1:30 p.m. Howard Blum, author of The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal (Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062307804). (Re-airs Sunday at 1:30 a.m.)
  • 2:15 p.m. Kathyrn Smith, author of The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency (Touchstone, $16.99, 9781501114977). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:15 a.m.)
  • 3 p.m. Geraldine Hawkins, author of Elliott and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Story of a Father and His Daughter in the Gilded Age (Black Dome Press, $22, 9781883789848). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 a.m.)
  • 3:45 p.m. Joseph Lelyveld, author of His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt (Knopf, $30, 9780385350792). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:45 a.m.)

5:45 p.m. Herb Boyd, author of Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination (Amistad, $27.99, 9780062346629). (Re-airs Monday at 1:15 a.m.)

7 p.m. Newt Gingrich, author of Understanding Trump (Center Street, $27, 9781478923084). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)

8 p.m. Gay Talese, author of High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese (Bloomsbury, $20, 9781632867469). (Re-airs Sunday at 5 p.m.)

10 p.m. Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider, authors of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, $27.95, 9780691172989). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)

11 p.m. Mark Pendergrast, author of City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America’s Urban Future (Basic Books, $30, 9780465054732), at Tall Tales Books in Atlanta, Ga.

Sunday, June 25
1 p.m. David Cuillier, co-author of The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records (CQ Press, $40, 9781604265507). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)

7 p.m. Ted Spitzmiller, author of The History of Human Space Flight (University of Florida Press, $39.95, 9780813054278).

7:50 p.m. Leland Melvin, author of Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances (Amistad, $25.99, 9780062496720), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.

11 p.m. Haroon Moghul, author of How to Be a Muslim: An American Story (Beacon Press, $17, 9780807020746).

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