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 6
10 a.m. Ira Stoll, author of Samuel Adams: A Life (Free Press, $28, 9780743299114/0743299116), recalls the life of a man who, the author argues, deserves greater recognition as one of America's founding fathers. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m. and 11:00 p.m., and Monday at 5 a.m.)
1:30 p.m. Thomas Slaughter, author of The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition (Hill and Wang, $30, 9780809095148/0809095149), recounts the life of a Quaker whose writings on the destructiveness of slavery were integral to the beginning of the Abolition movement. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 a.m. and 9 a.m.)
4 p.m. Jon Meacham, author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Random House, $30, 9781400063253/1400063256), discusses the founder of the Democratic party and the country's seventh president. (Re-airs Saturday at 8:45 p.m. and Monday at 6 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Mona Charen interviews Michael Medved, author of The 10 Big Lies About America (Crown Forum, $26.95, 9780307394064/0307394069). Medved argues that many commonly held beliefs about the U.S. are myths. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday at 3 a.m. and Sunday, December 14, at 11 a.m.)
Sunday, December 7
12 p.m. In Depth. Historian and former political strategist Kevin Phillips, author most recently of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism (Viking, $25.95, 9780670019076/0670019070), 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, December 13, at 9 a.m.)
3 p.m. Peter Mansoor, author of Baghdad Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale University Press, $28, 9780300140699/030014069X), talks about the impact of the "surge" in Iraq and what remains to be done. (Re-airs Saturday, December 20, at 8:30 p.m. and Monday, December 22, at 5 a.m.)