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, December 2
12 p.m. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles tour historical and literary sites in Kansas City, Kan.
2:40 p.m. Linda Gordon, author of The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (Liveright, $27.95, 9781631493690). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
4:45 p.m. Flo Groberg, co-author of 8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor (Simon & Schuster, $25, 9781501165887).
5:30 p.m. John Bargh, author of Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (Touchstone, $26, 9781501101212). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 a.m.)
6:30 p.m. Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Scientific American/FSG, $27, 9780374117290). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
8 p.m. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: America's Slaves of the New Millennium (Praeger, $37, 9781440854033), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:30 a.m.)
8:50 p.m. David Horowitz, author of The Black Book of the American Left (Encounter, $17.99, 9781594038693). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
10 p.m. Jennet Conant, author of Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781476730882). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Matt Taibbi, author of I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street (Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9780812988840), at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sunday, December 3
12:15 a.m. Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won (Basic Books, $40, 9780465066988). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:50 p.m.)
2:45 a.m. Kenneth Whyte, author of Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Knopf, $35, 9780307597960). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:45 p.m.)
8:10 a.m. Steve Villano, author of Tightrope: Balancing a Life Between Mario Cuomo and My Brother (Heliotrope Books, $16.50, 9781942762423). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:30 p.m.)
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with authors Cornel West and Robert George. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
4:15 p.m. Jeffrey Stewart and MaryLouise Patterson discuss Harlem Renaissance writers Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, at the Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax, Va. (Re-airs Monday at 5:30 a.m.)
7 p.m. Meryl Gordon, author of Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend (Grand Central, $28, 9781455588749), at Book Culture Bookstore in New York City.
