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 17
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 1998, George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft talked about their book, A World Transformed
(Vintage, $16, 9780679752592/0679752595). They first worked together in
1976, when Scowcroft was head of the NSC and Bush head of the CIA.
Scowcroft later served as President Bush's National Security Adviser.
7 p.m. Victor Davis Hanson, Heather MacDonald and Steven Malanga, co-authors of The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's
(Ivan R. Dee, $24.95, 9781566637602/1566637600), take a critical look
at U.S. immigration policy. (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m. and 12 p.m., and
Sunday, November 25, at 4 p.m.)
9 p.m. After Words. Leon Aron interviews Garry Kasparov, author of How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves--from the Board to the Boardroom
(Bloomsbury USA, $25.95, 9781596913875/1596913878). Kasparov discusses
his chess career and his role as leader of a coalition opposed to the
current Russian leadership. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.,
and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
10 p.m. Coverage of the 2007 National Book Awards ceremony in New York City.
Sunday, November 18
3 p.m. History on Book TV. Thomas DeFrank, author of Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford (Putnam,
$25.95, 9780399154508/0399154507), talks about the series of candid
conversations he and Ford had over 32 years that the former president asked be
published only following his death. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)