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 11
8 a.m. History on Book TV. University of Virginia professor Gary Gallagher, author of The Antietam Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, $34.95, 080782481X), among other Civil War titles, leads a group of high school history teachers from Taos, N.M., on a tour of Antietam National Battlefield Park in Sharpsburg, Md., where on September 17, 1862, 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing, the bloodiest day in U.S. history.
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 1991, Pulitzer Prize-winner, New York Times editorial writer and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute Tina Rosenberg discussed her book Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America (Penguin, $17, 0140172548). A series of portraits that include a Maoist guerrilla in Peru, a Chilean student leader supporting Pinochet and an Argentinean interior officer responsible for the death and torture of hundreds, the book explores the lives of people involved in the violent Latin American political movements and regimes of the 1980s. She also considers the role of the U.S. in the region.
9 p.m. After Words. Herman Belz, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, interviews Nicholas Lemann, staff writer at the New Yorker, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia and author of Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (FSG, $24, 0374248559), about the sad, brutal story of Reconstruction in the South, focusing on Mississippi. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Saturday, November 11
8 a.m. History on Book TV. University of Virginia professor Gary Gallagher, author of The Antietam Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, $34.95, 080782481X), among other Civil War titles, leads a group of high school history teachers from Taos, N.M., on a tour of Antietam National Battlefield Park in Sharpsburg, Md., where on September 17, 1862, 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing, the bloodiest day in U.S. history.
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 1991, Pulitzer Prize-winner, New York Times editorial writer and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute Tina Rosenberg discussed her book Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America (Penguin, $17, 0140172548). A series of portraits that include a Maoist guerrilla in Peru, a Chilean student leader supporting Pinochet and an Argentinean interior officer responsible for the death and torture of hundreds, the book explores the lives of people involved in the violent Latin American political movements and regimes of the 1980s. She also considers the role of the U.S. in the region.
9 p.m. After Words. Herman Belz, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, interviews Nicholas Lemann, staff writer at the New Yorker, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia and author of Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (FSG, $24, 0374248559), about the sad, brutal story of Reconstruction in the South, focusing on Mississippi. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)