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 17
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment originally aired in 2003, the Today Show's Willard Scott talked about his book The Older the Fiddle, The Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age (Hyperion, $12.95, 0786890398), for which he interviewed actors, astronauts, writers, program hosts and others about the upside of getting older. The responses are a compilation of short letters, essays, paragraphs and quotations.
8 p.m. After Words. David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal and author of the Journal's weekly "Capital" column, interviews Rep. John Linder (R.-Ga.), primary sponsor of the FairTax Act and co-author of The FairTax Book, in which he argues for replacing the federal income tax and the IRS with a retail sales tax. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
9 p.m. Public Lives. William Sampson, author of Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison (McClelland & Stewart, $27.95, 0771079036), talks about his prison experience.
11:30 p.m. History on Book TV. Edward O. Wilson, editor of From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Norton, $39.95, 0393061345), which includes The Origin of Species and Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, talks about the founder of the theory of evolution.
Saturday, December 17
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment originally aired in 2003, the Today Show's Willard Scott talked about his book The Older the Fiddle, The Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age (Hyperion, $12.95, 0786890398), for which he interviewed actors, astronauts, writers, program hosts and others about the upside of getting older. The responses are a compilation of short letters, essays, paragraphs and quotations.
8 p.m. After Words. David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal and author of the Journal's weekly "Capital" column, interviews Rep. John Linder (R.-Ga.), primary sponsor of the FairTax Act and co-author of The FairTax Book, in which he argues for replacing the federal income tax and the IRS with a retail sales tax. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
9 p.m. Public Lives. William Sampson, author of Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison (McClelland & Stewart, $27.95, 0771079036), talks about his prison experience.
11:30 p.m. History on Book TV. Edward O. Wilson, editor of From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Norton, $39.95, 0393061345), which includes The Origin of Species and Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, talks about the founder of the theory of evolution.