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, June 16
6:30 p.m. Michael Smerconish, author of Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: American Life in Columns (Temple University Press, $30, 9781439916353). (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)
7 p.m. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., author of American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family (Harper, $29.99, 9780060848347). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:50 a.m.)
8:10 p.m. Molly Crabapple, author of Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War (One World, $28, 9780399590627), at East City Bookshop in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Monday at 5:15 a.m.)
9 p.m. Newt Gingrich, author of Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback (Center Street, $27, 9781546077060). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m. and Monday at 1 a.m.)
10 p.m. Bill Press, author of From the Left: A Life in the Crossfire (Thomas Dunne, $27.99, 9781250147158). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Carolyn Reidy, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, and John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, discuss the state of publishing at BookExpo. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 p.m.)
Sunday, June 17
12 a.m. Jeremy Bernard and Lea Berman, authors of Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life (Scribner, $27, 9781501157981). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m.)
1 a.m. Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Simon & Schuster president and CEO Carolyn Reidy and others speak at the PEN Literary Gala in New York City. (Re-airs Sunday at 4 p.m.)
1:30 p.m. Yossi Halevi, author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor (Harper, $24.99, 9780062844910).
2:50 p.m. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781476795928).
7 p.m. Franchesca Ramsey, author of Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist (Grand Central, $27, 9781538761038), at WORD Bookstore in Jersey City, N.J.
8:10 p.m. Christopher Wren, author of Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, $26, 9781416599555), at Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, Vt.
10 p.m. Patricia O'Toole, author of The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made (Simon & Schuster, $35, 9780743298094).
