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 29
8:40 a.m. An interview with Marji Ross, president and publisher of Regnery, at BookExpo.
3:15 p.m. John Cheney-Lippold, author of We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves (NYU Press, $27.95, 9781479857593), at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Re-airs Monday at 1:20 a.m.)
5 p.m. Anan Ameri, author of The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus (Interlink, $20, 9781566560016). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
7 p.m. Dr. Kurt Newman, author of Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine (Viking, $27, 9780525428831), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
8 p.m. Kelly Hernandez, author of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (University of North Carolina Press, $28, 9781469631189). (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m. and Monday at 1 a.m.)
10 p.m. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, author of The Least Among Us: Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable (The New Press, $25.95, 9781620972205). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Erica Wagner, author Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Bloomsbury, $28, 9781620400517). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:15 p.m.)
Sunday, July 30
12 a.m. David Goodhart, author of The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics (Hurst, $24.95, 9781849047999). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
7:10 a.m. Pete Souza, author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait (Little, Brown, $50, 9780316512589), at BookExpo.
