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, November 1
9 a.m. Public Lives. Washington Post staff writer Liza Mundy, author of Michelle (S&S, $25, 9781416599432/1416599436), presents her biography of Michelle Obama. (Re-airs Sunday at 4:15 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. For a segment that first aired in 2003, Amy Chua, author of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Anchor, $15.95, 9780385721868/0385721862), argued that free markets do not spread wealth evenly among countries.
7 p.m. Maya Angelou, author of Letter to My Daughter (Random House, $25, 9781400066124/1400066123), discusses her first collection of essays in 10 years. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Lee Woodruff, wife of Bob Woodruff, the ABC News anchor severely injured in Iraq, interviews Kimberly Dozier, author of Breathing the Fire (Meredith Books, $24.95, 9780696238376/0696238373). Dozier, who was the victim of a car bomb while reporting on the Iraq War in 2006, talks about that experience and her long road to recovery. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 a.m., 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
11 p.m. For an event hosted by Olsson's Books, Washington, D.C., David Carr, author of The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life--His Own (S&S, $26, 9781416541523/1416541527), recounts his addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol and the journalistic practices he used to research and report on his life story. (Re-airs November 2 at 8:10 a.m.)
Sunday, November 2
2 a.m. Bill Murphy, Jr., author of In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point Class of 2002 (Holt, $27.50, 9780805086799/080508679X), profiles the first West Point class to graduate and go directly to serving as officers in the Iraq War. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
12 p.m. In Depth. Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, author most recently of The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Penguin, $16, 9780143114246/0143114247), joins Book TV for a live interview. Viewers can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program or e-mailing questions to booktv@c-span.org. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m. and Saturday, November 8, at 9 a.m.)