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, July 24
8 a.m. For an event hosted by Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, Wash., Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Viking, $25.95, 9780670021215/0670021210), advocates more nuclear power as the best way to slow the effect of climate change. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
10 a.m. Robert Remini, author of At the Edge of Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union (Basic Books, $24, 9780465012886/0465012884), presents a history of the Compromise of 1850 brokered between the North and South by Kentucky Senator Clay. (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
11 a.m. Tim Wise, author of Color Blind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights, $14.95, 9780872865082/0872865088), debates the racial meaning, if any, of the election of Barack Obama. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
1 p.m. Book TV offers coverage of the 2010 Eagle Forum Collegians Summit, a conference that brings together conservative speakers, authors and college students, held annually in Washington, D.C. Featured authors include Tom Pauken, Larry Schweikart, Ian Fletcher, George Allen, Christopher Horner, David Kupelianand and Michael Coffman.
4:30 p.m. David Sears, author of Such Men As These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies Over Korea (Da Capo, $25, 9780306818516/0306818515), examines James Michener's reporting on aviators in 1951, which was later used for his novel, The Bridges of Toko-Ri.
7 p.m. Robert Egan and Kurt Pitzer, co-authors of Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack (St. Martin's $25.99, 9780312571306/0312571305), recount Egan's experience hosting unofficial meetings with North Korean officials at his New Jersey restaurant and passing along information they provided to the FBI. (Re-airs Sunday at 11 a.m. and Monday at 5 a.m.)
8 p.m. From the Gaithersburg, Md., Book Festival, James Reston, Jr., author of Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 (Penguin, $29.95, 9781594202254/1594202257), talks about this fifth volume in a biographical series on the conflicts between Islam and Christianity throughout Western history. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:15 a.m. and Monday at 2 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Paula Dobriansky interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (Free Press, $27, 9781439157312/1439157316). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m., Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m., and Sunday, August 1, at 11 a.m.)
Sunday, July 25
1 p.m. Book TV offers coverage of the Roosevelt Reading Festival, held at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y. Featured authors include Stephen Ortiz, Tonya Bolden, Andrew Roberts, Lauren Sklaroff, Julie Fenster and Alan Brinkley.
8 p.m. Sydney Schanberg, author of Beyond the Killing Fields: War Writings (Potomac Books, $27.50, 9781597975056/1597975052), discusses his four decades of reporting from Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh.