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 23
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In this segment that first aired in 1993, Richard Norton Smith, director of the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, talked about his Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation (Mariner, $16, 0395855128), in which he argued that George Washington was not the figurehead that other historians have portrayed and that Washington's character, not the Constitution, held the country together.
9 p.m. After Words. Jack Pulwers, a reporter during World War II and author of The Press of Battle: The GI Reporter and the American People, interviews Alex Kershaw, author of The Few: The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain (Da Capo, $25, 0306813033), which tells the story of Americans who violated U.S. neutrality and risked losing their citizenship by joining the Royal Air Force in 1940--and helped the British win the Battle of Britain. The book has been named the Military Book Club Editor's Book of the Year, the first time the award has been given. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
10 p.m. General Assignment. In an event held at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., Alice Walker discussed We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness (New Press, $23.95, 159558137), her latest collection of essays, which touch on simpler living, war resistance, meditation and feminism, among other subjects. (Re-airs Monday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, December 24
11 a.m. Public Lives. In another event at Politics and Prose, humorist Art Buchwald talked about his newest book, Too Soon to Say Goodbye (Random House, $17.95, 1400066271), about the period earlier this year when he entered a hospice after being told he had only three weeks to live--and five months later left for home. The book includes eulogies by Tom Brokaw, Ben Bradlee and Mike Wallace. (Re-airs at 5:30 p.m.)
Saturday, December 23
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In this segment that first aired in 1993, Richard Norton Smith, director of the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, talked about his Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation (Mariner, $16, 0395855128), in which he argued that George Washington was not the figurehead that other historians have portrayed and that Washington's character, not the Constitution, held the country together.
9 p.m. After Words. Jack Pulwers, a reporter during World War II and author of The Press of Battle: The GI Reporter and the American People, interviews Alex Kershaw, author of The Few: The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain (Da Capo, $25, 0306813033), which tells the story of Americans who violated U.S. neutrality and risked losing their citizenship by joining the Royal Air Force in 1940--and helped the British win the Battle of Britain. The book has been named the Military Book Club Editor's Book of the Year, the first time the award has been given. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
10 p.m. General Assignment. In an event held at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., Alice Walker discussed We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness (New Press, $23.95, 159558137), her latest collection of essays, which touch on simpler living, war resistance, meditation and feminism, among other subjects. (Re-airs Monday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, December 24
11 a.m. Public Lives. In another event at Politics and Prose, humorist Art Buchwald talked about his newest book, Too Soon to Say Goodbye (Random House, $17.95, 1400066271), about the period earlier this year when he entered a hospice after being told he had only three weeks to live--and five months later left for home. The book includes eulogies by Tom Brokaw, Ben Bradlee and Mike Wallace. (Re-airs at 5:30 p.m.)