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 15
10 a.m. Book TV will air live coverage of the Miami Book Fair International, including events, talks with authors at the fair and phone calls from viewers. (Re-airs Saturday at 11 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. For a segment that first aired in 2002, Arnold Ludwig, author of King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership (University Press of Kentucky, $24.95, 9780813190686/0813190681), discussed his 18-year investigation into why people want to rule.
7 p.m. Charles Taylor receives the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award and speaks about his book, A Secular Age (Belknap Press, $39.95, 9780674026766/0674026764), which examines the history of secularism and its relationship with the force of religion. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:30 a.m.)
8:30 p.m. David Smick, author of The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the World Economy (Portfolio, $26.95, 9781591842187/1591842182), argues that the international financial collapse was predictable and that it's far from over. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Frank Gaffney interviews Bill Gertz, author of The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War (Crown Forum, $26.95, 978-0307338075/030733807X). Gertz contends that unelected officials have pursued their own agendas and weakened U.S. security. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m., and Sunday, November 23, at 12 p.m.).
Sunday, November 16
11 a.m. Book TV's live coverage of the Miami Book Fair International continues. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
10 p.m. For an event hosted by Book Culture bookstore, New York, N.Y., Jan Van Meter, author of Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History (University of Chicago Press, $22.50, 9780226849683/0226849686), discusses his book with communications strategist Alan Ampolsk. (Re-airs Saturday, November 29, at 2 p.m., and Sunday, November 30, at 4 a.m. and 3 p.m.)