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 16
12 p.m. Public Lives. At an event hosted by the University of Virginia Bookstore in Charlottesville, Adrian Goldsworthy declaimed about his book Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Yale University Press, $35, 0300120486). (Re-airs at 8 p.m.)
3:30 p.m. History on Book TV. Addressing students at Columbia University taking a course on the American West, Hampton Sides, author most recently of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Doubleday, $26.95, 0385507771), discussed the military expeditions led by former fur trapper Kit Carson, who, Sides said, was not a self-promoter, did not enjoy his celebrity and disdained the dime novels about his exploits. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 1992, Norman Schwarzkopf, the retired general who was commander of coalition forces in the Gulf War of 1991, talked about his book, It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (Bantam, $7.99, 0553563386).
9 p.m. After Words. Ron Kampeas, Washington bureau chief for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, interviews Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian-American and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, $23, 0805080341), in which he argues that the only hope for peace is to create one state out of Israel and Palestine. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Sunday, December 17
7:45 a.m. Print on Demand: A Revolution in the Making. In a talk that was part of the Fourth Annual International Conference on the Book hosted by Emerson College in Boston, Mass., Jason Epstein, co-founder of the New York Review of Books and of On Demand Books, talked about On Demand's Espresso Book Machine, which can print up to 20 books per hour. (Re-airs at Noon.)
11 a.m. Inside the New York Times Book Review. Editor Sam Tanenhaus shows how an issue is created, introduces many staff members, talks about how books are selected and rejected, how reviewers are chosen, how the publication is composed and laid out, how headlines, blurbs and artwork are created, and how letters from readers are edited and chosen. (Re-airs at 7 p.m.)
Saturday, December 16
12 p.m. Public Lives. At an event hosted by the University of Virginia Bookstore in Charlottesville, Adrian Goldsworthy declaimed about his book Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Yale University Press, $35, 0300120486). (Re-airs at 8 p.m.)
3:30 p.m. History on Book TV. Addressing students at Columbia University taking a course on the American West, Hampton Sides, author most recently of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Doubleday, $26.95, 0385507771), discussed the military expeditions led by former fur trapper Kit Carson, who, Sides said, was not a self-promoter, did not enjoy his celebrity and disdained the dime novels about his exploits. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 1992, Norman Schwarzkopf, the retired general who was commander of coalition forces in the Gulf War of 1991, talked about his book, It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (Bantam, $7.99, 0553563386).
9 p.m. After Words. Ron Kampeas, Washington bureau chief for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, interviews Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian-American and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, $23, 0805080341), in which he argues that the only hope for peace is to create one state out of Israel and Palestine. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Sunday, December 17
7:45 a.m. Print on Demand: A Revolution in the Making. In a talk that was part of the Fourth Annual International Conference on the Book hosted by Emerson College in Boston, Mass., Jason Epstein, co-founder of the New York Review of Books and of On Demand Books, talked about On Demand's Espresso Book Machine, which can print up to 20 books per hour. (Re-airs at Noon.)
11 a.m. Inside the New York Times Book Review. Editor Sam Tanenhaus shows how an issue is created, introduces many staff members, talks about how books are selected and rejected, how reviewers are chosen, how the publication is composed and laid out, how headlines, blurbs and artwork are created, and how letters from readers are edited and chosen. (Re-airs at 7 p.m.)