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 13
1:15 p.m. Nancy Rubin Stuart, author of The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation (Beacon Press, $28.95, 9780807055168/0807055166), recounts the life of the first female historian of the American Revolution. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 a.m.)
3 p.m. Robert Mrazek, author of A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight (Little, Brown, $27.99, 9780316021395/0316021393), talks about Torpedo Squadron Eight and its heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical victories at Midway and Guadalcanal. (Re-airs Sunday at 5 a.m. and 11 p.m., and Monday at 2 a.m.)
4 p.m. Edwin Burrows, author of Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War (Basic Books, $27.50, 9780465008353/0465008356), discusses the fate of men held by the British at their primary military base in New York City. (Re-airs Saturday at 11 p.m. and Sunday at 4 a.m.)
5 p.m. James Atlas, president of Atlas & Co. publishers, moderates a panel discussion on the American presidency with biographers and historians Robert Caro, Ted Sorensen and Bob Clark. (Re-airs Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. P.J. Crowley interviews Brian Michael Jenkins, author of Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (Prometheus Books, $26.98, 9781591026563/1591026563). Jenkins talks about the likelihood of terrorists developing or acquiring nuclear weapons and using them. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m., and Sunday, December 21, at 12 p.m.)
Sunday, December 14
12 p.m. Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins University Press, $125, 9780801889936/0801889936), discusses his two-volume biography. Viewers can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program or e-mailing questions to booktv@c-span.org. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m., Monday at 6 a.m. and Saturday, December 27, at 12 p.m.)