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 18
10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Coverage from the Mississippi Book Festival at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.). Highlights include:
- 10:30 a.m. A panel discussion on race and identity with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Beacon, $26.95, 9780807064498), Sheryll Cashin, author of Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy (Beacon, $26.95, 9780807058275), and Jabari Asim, author of We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival (Picador, $17, 9781250174536).
- 11:45 a.m. A panel discussion on American history with Gary Krist, author of The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles (Crown, $27, 9780451496386), Andrew Lawler, author of The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke (Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385542012), and Jack Davis, author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Liveright, $29.95, 9781631494024).
- 1 p.m. A panel discussion on civil rights history with Brenda Travis, co-author of Mississippi's Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped My Life (NewSouth, $21.95, 9781588383297), Jane Hearn, author of A Past That Won't Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, $40, 9781496816511), and Stephanie Rolph, author of Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989 (LSU Press, $50, 9780807169155).
- 2:30 p.m. A panel discussion on politics with Salena Zito, author of The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics (Crown Forum, $28, 9781524763688), and Alan Abramowitz, author of The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump (Yale University Press, $35, 9780300207132).
- 5 p.m. A panel discussion on presidential history with Charles Calhoun, author of The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (University Press of Kansas, $39.95, 9780700624843), and John Marszalek, editor of The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition (Belknap Press, $39.95, 9780674976290).
8 p.m. Keith O'Brien, author of Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9781328876645), at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
9 p.m. Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy (Metropolitan, $30, 9781250125149).
10 p.m. Kate Germano, co-author of Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained (Prometheus, $18, 9781633884137). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic, authors of Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781501135941), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 2:10 p.m.)
Sunday, August 19
6:20 p.m. Mark P. Mills, author of Work in the Age of Robots (Encounter, $7.99, 9781641770279).
7 p.m. Steven Ujifuza, author of Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781476745978), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
7:45 p.m. Thor Hanson, author of Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees (Basic Books, $27, 9780465052615), at Powell's Books in Portland, Ore.
8:45 p.m. Gary Smith, author of What the Luck? (Duckworth Overlook, $14.95, 9780715652657).
10 p.m. Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (Harper, $24.99, 9780062388780), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.