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, March 17
4 p.m. Harlow Giles Unger, author of First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence (Da Capo, $28, 9780306825613). (Re-airs Monday at 6:15 a.m.)
5:45 p.m. Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (Norton, $27.95, 9780393246315).
7 p.m. John A. Lawrence, author of The Class of '74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship (Johns Hopkins University Press, $29.95, 9781421424699), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
8 p.m. Sheila Nevins, author of You Don't Look Your Age... and Other Fairy Tales (Flatiron, $24.99, 9781250111302). (Re-airs Sunday at 12 p.m.)
9 p.m. Brad Meltzer, author of The Escape Artist (Grand Central, $28, 9781538746783).
10 p.m. Bryan Caplan, author of The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691174655). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Robert B. Reich, author of The Common Good (Knopf, $22.95, 9780525520498), at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, March 18
12 a.m. Melissa Schilling, author of Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World (PublicAffairs, $28, 9781610397926). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m.)
1 a.m. Bryan A. Garner, author of Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia (Threshold Editions, $28, 9781501181498).
1 p.m. BookTV visits the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. to explore "the Bible's influence on literature and its impact on issues from government and legal systems to education, human rights, and more." (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
2:30 p.m. Mark Powell, author of Small Treasons (Gallery, $16.99, 9781507203378), at the Rose Glen Literary Festival in Sevierville, Tenn. (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
3:16 p.m. Kathryn Smith, author of The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency (Touchstone, $18, 9781501114977), at the Rose Glen Literary Festival in Sevierville, Tenn. (Re-airs Monday at 4:46 a.m.)
3:55 p.m. Jennifer McGaha, author of Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir (Sourcebooks, $15.99, 9781492655381), at the Rose Glen Literary Festival in Sevierville, Tenn. (Re-airs Monday at 5:25 a.m.)
4:45 p.m. Mark Hasara, author of Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit (Threshold Editions, $26, 9781501181665).
8 p.m. Gregg Easterbrook, author of It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear (PublicAffairs, $28, 9781610397414).
10 p.m. Joseph Rodota, author of The Watergate: Inside America’s Most Infamous Address (William Morrow, $27.99, 9780062476623).
