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 19
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Live coverage of the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.) Highlights include:
- 10:30 a.m. A conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
- 11:45 a.m. A panel discussion on Mississippi's heritage and 200th-anniversary of statehood.
- 1 p.m. Mark Bowden, author of Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam (Atlantic Monthly Press, $30, 9780802127006).
- 2:30 p.m. A panel discussion on the lives of United States presidents.
- 3:45 p.m. A panel discussion on the history of Mississippi.
- 5 p.m. A panel discussion on the history of the Southern United States.
7:30 p.m. Joel Pollak, co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution (Regnery, $16.99, 9781621573951). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:10 p.m.)
8:15 p.m. Angela J. Davis, author of Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Pantheon, $27.95, 9781101871270). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:30 p.m.)
9:45 p.m. An interview with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden about the upcoming National Book Festival. (Re-airs Sunday at 2:20 p.m.)
10 p.m. Milo Yiannopoulos, author of Dangerous (Dangerous Books, $30, 9780692893449). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. David Baron, author of American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World (Liveright, $27.95, 9781631490163), at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, Colo. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:20 p.m.)
11:45 p.m. James O'Keefe, author of Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy (Threshold Editions, $26, 9781476706177). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
Sunday, August 20
12:40 p.m. James Hudson, author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, $45, 9780226459110). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
4:15 p.m. Joseph Hickman, co-author of The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies (Hot Books, $21.99, 9781510711624).
7:15 p.m. A book party for Carl M. Cannon, author of On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time (Twelve, $28, 9781455542307). (Re-airs Monday at 5:15 a.m.)
8 p.m. Mark Robert Schneider, author of Gerry Studds: America's First Openly Gay Congressman (University of Massachusetts Press, $29.95, 9781625342850).