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, August 11
3:19 p.m. Vicki E. Alger, author of Failure: The Federal Miseducation of America's Children (Independent Institute, $24.95, 9781598132137). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:32 a.m.)
3:30 p.m. Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415), at King's Books in Tacoma, Wash.
6:30 p.m. Robert W. Poole Jr., author of Rethinking America's Highways: A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure (University of Chicago Press, $30, 9780226557571).
7 p.m. J.D. Dickey, author of Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and the Fight for a New Nation (Pegasus Books, $29.95, 9781681777573). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:50 a.m.)
8:20 p.m. Onnesha Roychoudhuri, author of The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America (Melville House, $16.99, 9781612196992), at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, N.C.
9:20 p.m. Yeonmi Park, author of In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Penguin Books, $17, 9780143109747). (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)
10 p.m. D.L. Hughley, co-author of How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People (Morrow, $25.99, 9780062698544). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Michael Chertoff, author of Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age (Atlantic Monthly Press, $26, 9780802127938). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:30 p.m.)
Sunday, August 12
12:30 a.m. Coverage of a publication party for former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's book, The Briefing: Politics, The Press, and The President (Regnery, $28.99, 9781621578147). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.)
1:30 a.m. James Robenalt, author of Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland (Chicago Review Press, $27.99, 9780897337038), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
1:40 p.m. John Lingan, author of Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780544932531), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
5 p.m. Walter Block, co-author of Space Capitalism: How Humans Will Colonize Planets, Moons, and Asteroids (Palgrave Macmillan, $34.99, 9783319746500). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
8:39 p.m. Joshua Dunn, author of Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University (Oxford University Press, $31.95, 9780199863051).
10 p.m. George Gilder, author of Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (Gateway Editions, $28.99, 9781621575764).
10:30 p.m. Nomi Prins, author of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World (Nation Books, $28, 9781568585628), at Warwick's Books in San Diego, Calif.
11:37 p.m. Charles Sauer, author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do (SelectBooks, $22.95, 9781590794449).
