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, September 30
12 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Coverage from the 2017 Baltimore Book Festival, which occurred last weekend in Baltimore, Md. (Re-airs Sunday at 12:30 a.m.) Highlights include:
- 12 p.m. Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (St. Martin's Press, $24.99, 9781250135995).
- 1:06 p.m. Laura Jacobs, author of "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!": And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People (Beacon Press, $16, 9780807033890).
- 2:02 p.m. Andrea Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon Press, $21, 9780807088982).
- 2:54 p.m. Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, $24.95, 9780822362869).
- 3:44 p.m. Devin Allen, author of A Beautiful Ghetto (Haymarket, $24.95, 9781608467594).
5:15 p.m. George Gilder, author of The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does (Regnery, $27.99, 9781621575757).
7:30 p.m. Dick Morris, co-author of Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump (St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250167866). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
9 p.m. Lenora Chu, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve (Harper, $27.99, 9780062367853). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
10 p.m. Art Levine, author of Mental Health Inc.: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens (Overlook Press, $30, 9781468308372). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Knopf, $28, 9781101946596).
Sunday, October 1
12:10 a.m. Michael Shermer, author of Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye (St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250119636).
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Lynne Olson, author of Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War (Random House, $30, 9780812997354). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
7 p.m. Meghan O'Sullivan, author of Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America's Power (Simon & Schuster, $29, 9781501107931).
8 p.m. David Litt, author of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years (Ecco, $27.99, 9780062568458).
8:45 p.m. Michael Medved, author of The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic (Crown Forum, $17, 9780553447286).