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 18
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In this segment first aired in 1993, Tom
Wheeler, president and CEO of Shiloh Group, a telecommunications
development and investment company, talked about his book Take
Command!: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War (Currency, 0385495196).
9 p.m. After Words. Martin Walker, senior fellow at Woodrow Wilson
Center and editor emeritus for United Press International, interviews
John O'Sullivan, veteran journalist, former special adviser to Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher, editor at large for the National Review, a
senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The President, the
Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World (Regnery,
$27.95, 1596980168), an exploration of
the roles played by President Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Thatcher in the fall of the Soviet Union.
(Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
10 p.m. General Assignment. The 2006 National Book Awards ceremony, held last night. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, November 19
12 a.m. Public Lives. During an event held at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington, D.C., David Cannadine discussed Mellon: An
American Life (Knopf, $35, 0679450327), his biography of financier
Andrew Mellon, who served as Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador
to Great Britain and founded the National Gallery of Art.