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 website.
Saturday, November 10
9:55
a.m. Book TV provides all-day coverage of the Miami Book Fair
International from Miami Dade College, Miami, Fla. Events will be
interspersed with interviews and calls with featured authors,
including Ian Klaus, Hanna Rosin, Mark Penn and Chris Matthews
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 2001, Kiron Skinner, editor of Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America
(Free Press, $26.95, 9780743219389/0743219384), revealed that many of
Reagan's positions were developed long before he became president.
9 p.m. After Words. Richard Viguerie, president of ConservativeHQ.com, interviews Michael Gerson, author of Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don't)
(HarperOne, $26.95, 9780061349508/006134950X). Gerson, a former Bush
speechwriter, argues that the Republican party needs to redefine what
it means to be a conservative. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:00 p.m. and 9:00
p.m.)
Sunday, November 11
9:55 a.m. Book TV continues its coverage of the Miami Book Fair International. Events will be interspersed with interviews and
calls with featured authors, including Edwidge Danticat, Paul
Krugman, Robert Draper and George Soros.
8 p.m. Richard Rhodes, author of Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Knopf,
$28.95, 9780375414138/0375414134), talks about the people and events
that led to the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
(Re-airs Saturday, November 17, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 18, at 1
a.m.)