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, July 15
2:30 p.m. Louis Uchitelle, author of Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters (The New Press, $24.95, 9781595588975). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:45 a.m.)
6 p.m. Leigh Montville, author of Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 (Doubleday, $30, 9780385536059). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:30 a.m.)
7 p.m. Garry Kasparov, author of Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (PublicAffairs, $28, 9781610397865). (Re-airs Monday at 4:30 a.m.)
8:15 p.m. Zeynep Tufekci, author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (Yale University Press, $26, 9780300215120). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:15 p.m.)
9:15 p.m. Jason Riley, author of False Black Power? (Templeton Press, $12.95, 9781599475189). (Re-airs Sunday at 1:40 p.m.)
10 p.m. Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Haymarket, $16.95, 9781608468904). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Graham Allison, author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780544935273). (Re-airs Sunday at 4 p.m.)
Sunday, July 16
12:30 a.m. Deepak Singh, author of How May I Help You?: An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage (University of California Press, $24.95, 9780520293311), at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:30 p.m.)
5:15 a.m. Kevin Young, author of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf, $30, 9781555977917), at BookExpo.
1 p.m. Brenda Stevenson, author of What Is Slavery? (Polity, $19.99, 9780745671512). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
7 p.m. Geoffrey West, author of Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Penguin Press, $30, 9781594205583), at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Wash.
11:15 p.m. James Stavridis, author of Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans (Penguin Press, $28, 9780735220591).
