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, April 20
3 p.m. Manisha Sinha, author of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (Liveright, $39.99, 9781631498442).
4:05 p.m. Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration (Dutton, $35, 9780451489012).
Sunday, April 21
8 a.m. Christopher Rufo, author of America's Cultural Revolution (Broadside, $32, 9780063227538). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:05 a.m. Sarah McCammon, author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250284471), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:05 p.m.)
10 a.m. Eddie Glaude Jr., author of We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For (Harvard University Press, $24.95, 9780674737600). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Mickey Huff, editor of Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024 (Seven Stories Press, $18.95, 9781644213322), at Avid Reader Bookstore in Davis, Calif.
3:30 p.m. Amitav Ghosh, author of Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32, 9780374602925).
4:45 p.m. Frank McCourt Jr., co-author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age (Crown, $28, 9780593728512).
5:30 p.m. Colum McCann and Diane Foley, authors of American Mother (Etruscan Press, $25.99, 9798985882452), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
6:50 p.m. Senators Laphonza Butler and Tina Smith speak on the Senate floor against book bans in libraries and schools.
