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, June 9
9 a.m. Retired four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell discusses his book It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (Harper, $27.99, 9780062135124). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11 a.m.: Book TV will have live coverage of the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest. Featured authors Gary Krist, Joe Allen, David Scheffer, Julia Lieblich, Rich Cohen, Adlai E. Stevenson III, Wenguang Huang, Carlin Romano and Reginald Dwayne Betts. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. David Talbot talks about his book Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love (Free Press, $28, 9781439108215).
8:45 p.m. Arthur Brooks discusses his book The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (Basic Books, $25.99, 9780465029402). (Re-airs Sunday at 4 p.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Ann Blackman interviews former Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright, author of Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 (Harper, $29.99, 9780062030313). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m.)
11 p.m. John Hughes presents his biography Slade Gorton: A Half Century in Politics (Washington State Heritage Center Legacy Project, $35, 9781889320243)
Sunday, June 10
11 a.m. Live coverage of the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest continues. Featured authors include Gillum Ferguson, Gail Collins, Lindsey Hilsum, Thomas Mallon, John Conroy and Rob Warden. (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
7:15 p.m. Richard Sandor talks about his book Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation (Wiley, $45, 9780470949733).
