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 19
10 a.m. Nicole Gelinas, author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington (Encounter Books, $23.95, 9781594032615/1594032610), argues that government interference over the past 25 years has hindered the proper working of our financial system. (Re-airs Sunday at 4 p.m. and 10 p.m.)
12 p.m. Matthew Spalding, author of We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, $26.95, 9781935191674/1935191675), explores how he believes the government went off track and how it can return to its roots. (Re-airs Sunday at 3 a.m.)
2:30 p.m. James Bradley, author of The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War (Little, Brown, $29.99, 9780316008952/0316008958), recalls the diplomatic mission that President Theodore Roosevelt sent Secretary of War William Howard Taft on in 1905. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.)
8 p.m. Timothy Carney, author of Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses (Regnery, $27.95, 9781596986121/1596986123), contends that the president is a champion of big corporations and Wall Street financial firms. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m. and Monday at 1 a.m.)
9 p.m. Frances Beinecke discusses his book, Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change (Rowman & Littlefield, $9.95, 9781442203174/144220317X). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:15 a.m. and Monday at 2 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words: Representative Mary Bono Mack interviews Greg Mortenson, author of Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Viking, $26.95, 9780670021154/0670021156). The California congresswoman was an early supporter of Mortenson's work. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, December 20
4 a.m. A panel discussion of Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia (Duke University Press, $27.95, 9780822346876/0822346877) by Ann Dunham, President Barack Obama's mother, who died in 1995. A revised and edited version of her 1992 University of Hawaii dissertation on metalworking industries in Java was recently published. (Re-airs Sunday at 2 p.m.)