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, July 21
3:43 p.m. Douglas Brinkley, author of The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 (Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062005977), at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Tex. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:43 a.m.)
5 p.m. David Michael Slater, author of We're Doing It Wrong: 25 Ideas in Education That Just Don't Work--And How to Fix Them (Skyhorse, $12.99, 9781510725614). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
7 p.m. John Tamny, author of The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job (Gateway Editions, $28.99, 9781621577775). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:30 p.m.)
7:30 p.m. Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz, authors of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment (Basic Books, $28, 9781541644885), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
8:30 p.m. A discussion with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and National Archivist David Ferriero on the "collection of physical materials in the digital age." (Re-airs Monday at 6:30 a.m.)
10 p.m. Mark Adams, author of Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier (Dutton, $28, 9781101985106). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. A profile of the St. Martin's Press imprint All Points Books. (Re-airs Sunday at 7:30 p.m.)
Sunday, July 22
12:30 a.m. Alissa Quart, author of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (Ecco, $27.99, 9780062412256), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:30 p.m.)
1:30 a.m. Jonathan Salk, co-author of A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future (City Point Press, $26, 9781947951044). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
5 p.m. Carl Zimmer, author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Dutton, $30, 9781101984598).
10 p.m. Ken Auletta, author of Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else) (Penguin Press, $30, 9780735220867).
11 p.m. Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press, $24.95, 9780190841164), at New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville, Va.
