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, September 13
12 p.m. Ronald Walters, author of The Price of Racial Reconciliation (University of Michigan Press, $29.95, 9780472115303/0472115308), argues that until there is a substantial discussion about restitution for African Americans there will remain a racial divide in the U.S. (Re-airs Sunday at 3 a.m. and7 p.m.).
4 p.m. Encore Booknotes. For a segment that first aired in 2002, Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 (Holt, $17, 9780805087246/0805087249), talked about Allied forces and their battles during the North African campaign. (Re-airs Sunday at 5 a.m.)
7 p.m. Patrick Buchanan, author of Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (Crown $29.95, 9780307405159/030740515X), argues that the two world wars were the result of diplomatic mistakes. (Re-airs Monday at 3 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. In a program recorded at BookExpo America in Los Angeles, Charles Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books, interviews Christopher Buckley, author of Supreme Courtship: A Novel (Twelve, $24.99, 9780446579827/0446579823). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday at 12 a.m. and Sunday, September 21, at 12 p.m.)
Sunday, September 14
8 a.m. For an event hosted by Politics and Prose bookstore, Washington, D.C., Sheryll Cashin, author of The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (PublicAffairs, $26, 9781586484224/1586484222), recounts the legacy of political activism in her family that she traces back to Reconstruction. (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
4:45 p.m. U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, author of A Sense of Belonging: From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream (Crown Forum, $26.95, 9780307405401/0307405400), recalls his childhood in Cuba, arrival in Florida at 15 and career in law and politics. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m., Monday at 7 a.m. and Sunday, September 21, at 5 a.m.)