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.
Saturday, December 5
10 a.m. John Hope Bryant, author of Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass, $27.95, 9780470428788/0470428783), presents his five laws of love-based leadership: loss creates leaders; fear fails; love makes money; vulnerability is power and giving is getting. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 a.m.)
3 p.m. Christopher Andrew, author of Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Knopf, $40, 9780307263636/0307263630), chronicles the history and current status of the British security service. (Re-airs Saturday at 11 p.m. and Monday at 5 a.m.)
5 p.m. For an event hosted by Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cleveland, Ohio, James Ledbetter and Daniel Roth discuss The Great Depression: A Diary (PublicAffairs, $24.95, 9781586487997/158648799X), a book they edited from the diaries of Roth's father, Benjamin. (Re-airs Sunday at 3 a.m. and 10 a.m.)
7 p.m. David Gibbs, author of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Vanderbilt University Press, $27.95, 9780826516442/0826516440), talks about the U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
Sunday, December 6
5:30 a.m. Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, $24.95, 9781605091358/1605091359), discusses gender inequality in leadership positions in government and business. (Re-airs Sunday at 4:30 p.m.)
11 a.m. Mark Kleiman, author of When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691142081/0691142084), argues that focused "zero tolerance" is the solution to rising crime and overcrowded prisons.
12 p.m. In Depth. Joy Hakim, author of the 10-volume A History of US and 3-volume The Story of Science series, 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 or via Twitter (@BookTV). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)