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 15
3:30 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment that first aired in 2002, Richard Lingeman, author of Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Main Street (Borealis, $24.95, 9780873515412/0873515412), discussed the private and professional life of the novelist.
7 p.m. Public Lives. A panel discussion of Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir (Touchstone, $16 9781416544494/1416544496) by the late Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips who became an anti-gang activist. Panelists include Melvin Hardy, Tom Hayden, Mike Farrell and Barbara Becnel. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 p.m. and Monday at 6 a.m.).
9 p.m. After Words. Washington Times columnist Diana West interviews Patrick Buchanan, author of Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart (Thomas Dunne, $25.95, 9780312376963/0312376960). Buchanan says that America is facing a crisis it may not survive. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m, Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.).
10 p.m. Eric Muller, author of American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II (University of North Carolina Press, $27.50, 9780807831731/0807831735), examines the U.S. government's decision to force 70,000 American citizens into internment camps during World War II.
Sunday, December 16
10.30 a.m. Elizabeth Samet, author of Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (FSG, $23, 9780374180638/0374180636), talks about her experience teaching literature to students who are going to war. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.).