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, December 10
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. Witold Rybczynski sketches the design of his biography of the architect of New York City's Central Park, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century (Scribner, $15.95, 0684865750).
8 p.m. After Words. Joseph diGenova, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, deposes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson, whose new book, The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism (Harcourt, $26, 0151010625), draws parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and the post-September 11 world. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Saturday, December 10
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. Witold Rybczynski sketches the design of his biography of the architect of New York City's Central Park, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century (Scribner, $15.95, 0684865750).
8 p.m. After Words. Joseph diGenova, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, deposes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson, whose new book, The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism (Harcourt, $26, 0151010625), draws parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and the post-September 11 world. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)