Book TV airs on C-Span 2 from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday
(Thursday through Monday Thanksgiving weekend) 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 24
3:15 p.m. History on Book TV. Nicholas Wapshott, author of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage
(Sentinel, $25.95, 9781595230478/1595230475), analyzes the personal and
political relationship between the two world leaders. (Re-airs
Saturday, December 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, December 2, at 1 a.m.)
4:30 p.m. Ben Mezrich, author of Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
(Morrow, $25.95, 9780061252723/0061252727), discusses the workings of
the New York Mercantile Exchange and the efforts of two young men to
open an exchange in Dubai. (Re-airs Sunday, December 2, at 10:45 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 1993, Richard Norton Smith, author of Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation
(Mariner, $16 9780395855126/0395855128), described the first president
as an incorruptible man and a powerful mediator between opposing
political groups.
9 p.m. After Words. Historian and author Patrick O’Donnell interviews Rick Atkinson, who in his Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
(Holt, $35, 9780805062892/0805062890) details the constant warfare that
resulted in more than 300,000 Allied casualties. (Re-airs Sunday at 6
p.m. and 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)