Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend 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, February 26
2 p.m. David Philipps, author of Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home (Palgrave Macmillan, $25, 9780230104402), talks about the 506th Infantry Regiment, which experienced some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq.
3 p.m. Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, talks about her book A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All (PublicAffairs, $25.99, 9781586487409). (Re-airs Monday at 1:15 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. Michael Scheuer, who served as chief of the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station from 1996 to 1999 and as an advisor to that unit from 2001 to 2004, discusses his book Osama Bin Laden (Oxford University Press, $19.95, 9780199738663). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. AARP's senior editor for state news Sylvia Smith interviews Susan Jacoby, author of Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age (Pantheon, $27.95, 9780307377944). Jacoby contends that Baby Boomers need to distinguish between "marketing hype" and reality. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, February 27
12:15 a.m. William McGowan, author of Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of The New York Times Means for America (Encounter Books, $25.95, 9781594034862), argues that Times has adopted a liberal ideological agenda. (Re-airs Sunday at 7:15 .p.m)
3 p.m. Nicholas Phillipson, author of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (Yale University Press, $32.50, 9780300169270), examines Smith's philosophical and economic thinking and explores his best known work, The Wealth of Nations. (Re-airs Monday at 6:30 a.m.)