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, December 1
9 p.m. After Words. Timothy Naftali, director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, interviews Sir David Frost, author of Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews (Harper
Perennial, $14.95, 9780061445866/006144586X), in which Frost recounts
the preparation and execution required to produce his television
interviews in 1977 with former president Richard Nixon. (Re-airs Sunday
at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., and Monday at 3 a.m.)
10 p.m. Diana West, author of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
(St. Martin's, $23.95, 9780312340483/0312340486), argues that Americans
are in a state of perpetual adolescence that has its roots in the 1950s
and 1960s. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
Sunday, December 2
12 p.m. In Depth. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is the guest for a live interview. Viewers can participate by calling in during the program with questions or by e-mailing booktv@c-span.org. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m., Saturday, December 8, at 12 p.m., and Monday, December 10, at 3 a.m.)
7 p.m. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, author of Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers
(Harper, $25.95, 9780061138249/006113824X), talks about her book
profiling the lives of 63 pioneering women in military service,
journalism, public health, social reform, science and politics.
(Re-airs Monday at 7 a.m.)
8 p.m. Ronald Brownstein, author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
(Penguin, $27.95, 9781594201394/1594201390), analyzes the history and
forces that have made American politics divisive and partisan.