Book TV airs on C-Span 2 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 Web site.
Saturday, November 12
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In this segment first aired in 1998, A. Scott Berg discussed his biography Lindbergh (Berkley, $17, 0425170411).
8 p.m. After Words. Chuck Todd, editor-in-chief of the Hotline, interviews New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, whose new memoir is Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153241). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Sunday, November 13
1 a.m. History on Book TV. Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World and Krakatoa, discusses his new book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993).
5 p.m. Public Lives. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, authors of Mao: The Unknown Story (Knopf, $35, 0679422714), talk about the late Chinese leader's life.
Saturday, November 12
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In this segment first aired in 1998, A. Scott Berg discussed his biography Lindbergh (Berkley, $17, 0425170411).
8 p.m. After Words. Chuck Todd, editor-in-chief of the Hotline, interviews New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, whose new memoir is Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153241). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Sunday, November 13
1 a.m. History on Book TV. Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World and Krakatoa, discusses his new book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060571993).
5 p.m. Public Lives. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, authors of Mao: The Unknown Story (Knopf, $35, 0679422714), talk about the late Chinese leader's life.