Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this week 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, April 21
9:15 a.m. At an event hosted by Rediscovered Books, Boise, Idaho, Scott Farris discusses his book Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation (Lyons Press, $24.95, 9780762763788). (Re-airs Saturday at 11 p.m.)
12 p.m. At an event hosted by the Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Mo., Philip White talks about his book Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance (PublicAffairs, $26.99, 9781610390590).
1:15 p.m. John T. Shaw presents his book Richard G. Lugar: Statesman of the Senate: Crafting Foreign Policy From Capitol Hill (Indiana University Press, $28, 9780253001931). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Book TV offers live coverage of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, featuring authors Adam Goodheart, Adam Hochschild, Andrew Nagorski, Hipolito Acosta, John Farrell, Jim Newton, Richard Reeves, Tracie McMillan, Joel Achenbach, Robert Scheer, Amy Wilentz, Benjamin Busch, Daniel Arnold, Deanne Stillman, Susan Suntree and Steven Ross. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
8 p.m. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley discusses her memoir Can't Is Not an Option: My American Story (Sentinel, $27.95, 9781595230850). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:15 a.m. and Monday at 7 a.m.)
8:45 p.m. KQED Public Radio host Dave Iverson interviews Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Penguin, $29.95, 9781594203282).
10 p.m. After Words. Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter David Savage interviews Dale Carpenter, author of Flagrant Conduct: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans (Norton, $29.95, 9780393062083). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m.)
Sunday, April 22
6 a.m. Guy Gugliotta, author of Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, $35, 9780809046812), examines the creation of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Richard Epstein discusses his book Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration and the Rule of Law (Harvard University Press, $29.95, 9780674061842). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:45 p.m.)
2 p.m. Book TV's live coverage of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books continues, featuring authors Eric Alterman, Lori Andrews, Edward Humes, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Anna Sklar, Nancy Cohen, Lori Andrews, Annie Jacobsen, Michael Shermer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tom Hayden, Abe Peck and Robert Scheer. (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
