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 8
8 a.m. J. Craig Venter, author of A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life
(Viking, $25.95, 9780670063581/0670063584), talks about how he
successfully sequenced the first human genome in 2001. (Re-airs Sunday
at 7 p.m. and Monday, December 24, at 6 a.m.)
7 p.m. At an event hosted by Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, N.C., Karl E. Campbell, author of Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers
(University of North Carolina Press, $34.95, 9780807831564/0807831565),
discusses the life and political views of the man who chaired the
Senate Watergate hearings in 1973.
8 p.m. From the Texas Book Festival, the editors of the Onion talk about their latest book, Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Plant Earth (Little, Brown, $27.99, 9780316018425/0316018422). (Re-airs Sunday at 12: a.m. and Wednesday, December 26, at 4 a.m.)
9 p.m. After Words. Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program, interviews historian Ronald Spector, author of In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia (Random House, $27.95, 9780375509155/0375509151). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., and Monday at 12 a.m.)
Sunday, December 9
1 a.m. Lou Dobbs, author of Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit
(Viking, $24.95, 9780670018369/0670018368), contends that the U.S.
government has become unresponsive to its constituents. (Re-airs Sunday
at 12 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., and Monday at 2 a.m.)