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 4
12:30 p.m. Public Lives. At an event hosted by the Houston World Affairs Council, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, whose new book is Work Hard, Study . . . And Keep Out of Politics!: Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Political Life (Putnam, $28.95, 0399153772), discusses his time in the Ford and Reagan administrations and his perspective on the Supreme Court decision concerning the 2000 presidential election. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:15 p.m. and Monday at 7:15 a.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a previously aired segment, Marc Fisher, a Washington Post staff writer and the Post's bureau chief in Bonn and Berlin from 1989 to 1994, talked about his After the Wall: Germany, the Germans, and the Burdens of History. In the book, he concluded that the country remained divided and that former East Germans saw themselves as second-class citizens.
9 p.m. After Words. Marc Pachter, director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, interviewed Mark Updegrove, a Yahoo executive, former publisher of Newsweek and a Time-man, about Updegrove's Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House (Lyons Press, $24.95, 1592289428). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Sunday, November 5
12-3 p.m. In Depth: Ray Kurzweil, the author, inventor and futurist whose most recent book is The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Penguin, $18, 0143037889). Kurzweil has written extensively on artificial intelligence, and his companies have been pioneers in print, sound and speech recognition technologies. Viewers may ask questions by calling in during the live show or by e-mailing booktv@c-span.org.
Saturday, November 4
12:30 p.m. Public Lives. At an event hosted by the Houston World Affairs Council, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, whose new book is Work Hard, Study . . . And Keep Out of Politics!: Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Political Life (Putnam, $28.95, 0399153772), discusses his time in the Ford and Reagan administrations and his perspective on the Supreme Court decision concerning the 2000 presidential election. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:15 p.m. and Monday at 7:15 a.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a previously aired segment, Marc Fisher, a Washington Post staff writer and the Post's bureau chief in Bonn and Berlin from 1989 to 1994, talked about his After the Wall: Germany, the Germans, and the Burdens of History. In the book, he concluded that the country remained divided and that former East Germans saw themselves as second-class citizens.
9 p.m. After Words. Marc Pachter, director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, interviewed Mark Updegrove, a Yahoo executive, former publisher of Newsweek and a Time-man, about Updegrove's Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House (Lyons Press, $24.95, 1592289428). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Sunday, November 5
12-3 p.m. In Depth: Ray Kurzweil, the author, inventor and futurist whose most recent book is The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Penguin, $18, 0143037889). Kurzweil has written extensively on artificial intelligence, and his companies have been pioneers in print, sound and speech recognition technologies. Viewers may ask questions by calling in during the live show or by e-mailing booktv@c-span.org.