Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this week from 8 a.m. Thursday 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.
Thursday, November 26
12 p.m. From the Southern Festival of Books, Kira Gale, co-author of The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation (River Junction Press, $16.95, 9780964931541/0964931540), argues that Lewis did not commit suicide as is widely believed. (Re-airs Friday at 12 a.m., Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 3 a.m.)
Friday, November 27
9:15 a.m. Jane Goodall discusses her book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Grand Central Publishing, $27.99, 9780446581776/0446581771). (Re-airs Friday at 9:15 p.m.)
12 p.m. After Words. Ezra Klein interviews Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner about their book SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Morrow, $29.99, 9780060889579/0060889578). (Re-airs Saturday at 12 a.m., Saturday, December 5 at 10 p.m. and Sunday, December 6, at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
Saturday, November 28
8 a.m. Lori Ginzberg, author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (Hill & Wang, $25, 9780809094936/0809094932), recounts the life of the early leader in the women's rights movement. (Re-airs Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 4 a.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. For a segment that first aired in 1993, J. Bowyer Bell, author of The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992, described how he conducted more than 10,000 hours of interviews for the nearly 1,000 pages of text.
7 p.m. Environmental journalist Amanda Little discusses her book, Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells--Our Ride to the Renewable Future (Harper, $25.99, 9780061353253/0061353256). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. The Nation magazine's sports columnist Dave Zirin interviews Wil Haygood, author of Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Knopf, $27.95, 9781400044979/1400044979). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, November 29
3 p.m. Ken Auletta, author of Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (Penguin, $27.95, 9781594202353/1594202354), provides an account of how Google became a new-media giant.