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, August 5
12 p.m. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles tour literary and historical sites in Tacoma, Wash. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:15 a.m.)
2:30 p.m. Steven Sloman, co-author of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone (Riverhead, $28, 9780399184352), at MIT Press Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
5:20 p.m. Lawrence Goldstone, author of Going Deep: John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine (Pegasus, $27.95, 9781681774299), at Kramerbooks and Afterwords in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Monday at 6:45 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (Viking, $28, 9781101980965), at Regulator Bookshop in Durham, N.C.
8:45 p.m. Tom Basile, author of Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq (Potomac, $32.95, 9781612349008). (Re-airs Sunday at 4 p.m.)
10 p.m. Jesse Eisinger, author of The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives (Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781501121364). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Joshua Green, author of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency (Penguin Press, $27, 9780735225022). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
Sunday, August 6
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with attorney and author KrisAnne Hall. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
5:30 p.m. Alexander Klimburg, author of The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace (Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206665).
7 p.m. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, authors of Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (Norton, $28.95, 9780393254297).
10 p.m. James Blake, co-author of Ways of Grace: Stories of Activism, Adversity, and How Sports Can Bring Us Together (Amistad, $26.99, 9780062354525).
