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 12
4:10 p.m. Sam Sorbo, author of They're Your Kids: An Inspirational Journey from Self-Doubter to Home School Advocate (Kamakazee Kiwi, $20, 9780982800102). (Re-airs Monday at 3:40 a.m.)
4:30 p.m. Willard Sterne Randall, author of Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution (St. Martin's Press, $29.99, 9781250111838), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Monday at 5 a.m.)
7 p.m. Peter Brannen, author of The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions (Ecco, $27.99, 9780062364807), at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:15 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. Dinesh D'Souza, author of The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left (Regnery, $29.99, 9781621573487). (Re-airs Monday at 4:45 a.m.)
8 p.m. Peter Baker, author of Obama: The Call of History (New York Times/Callaway, $50, 9780935112900). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
9 p.m. Tracy Crow and Jerri Bell, editors of It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan (Potomac Books, $32.95, 9781612348315), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 2:30 p.m.)
10 p.m. Senator Jeff Flake, author of Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle (Random House, $27, 9780399592911). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
10:40 p.m. Benjamin Madley, author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (Yale University Press, $22, 9780300230697). (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m. and Monday at 12:40 a.m.)
11 p.m. Robert O'Neill, author of The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (Scribner, $28, 9781501145032). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:10 p.m.)
Sunday, August 13
9:40 p.m. Helen Raleigh, author of The Broken Welcome Mat: America's UnAmerican Immigration Policy and How We Should Fix It (CreateSpace, $16.99, 9781533216298).
11 p.m. Andy Puzder, co-author Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why Government Doesn't Understand It (E3 Free Market Press, $32.99, 9780615436357).
