Book TV airs on C-Span 2 from 8 a.m. Friday 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 12
11 a.m. Adam Langer, author of My Father's Bonus March (Spiegel & Grau, $26, 9780385523721/0385523726), recounts the Bonus March of 1932, when 20,000 WWI vets marched on Washington. (Re-airs Sunday at 4 a.m.)
12 p.m. For an event hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., Carmen Reinhart, co-author (with Kenneth Rogoff) of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press, $35, 9780691142166/0691142165), argues that the 2008 economic collapse was not unique. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
1 p.m. Harriet Reisen talks about her book, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (Henry Holt, $26, 9780805082999/0805082999). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 a.m. and Monday at 6 a.m.)
4 p.m. Richard Dawkins, author of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Free Press, $30, 9781416594789/1416594787), contends that denying evolution today is comparable to denying the Holocaust. (Re-airs Sunday at 5 a.m.)
7 p.m. Rana Husseini, author of Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime (Oneworld Publications, $24.95, 9781851685974/1851685979), talks about honor killings. (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.)
8 p.m. From the 2009 Miami Book Fair, Al Gore discusses his new book, Our Choice (Rodale, $26.99, 9781594867347/1594867348). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Ted Olson interviews Joan Biskupic, author of American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. (FSG, $28, 9780374202897/0374202893). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, December 13
8 p.m. Linda Gordon, author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (Norton, $35, 9780393057300/0393057305), chronicles the life of the legendary documentary photographer. (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)