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, July 7
2 p.m. David Sanger presents his book Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (Crown, $28, 9780307718020).
3:15 p.m. Luigi Zingales talks about his book A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (Basic Books, 9780465029471). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 a.m. and July 15 at 3:45 p.m.)
5:15 p.m. Book Party for Mark Shriver, author of A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver (Henry Holt, $24, 9780805095302). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:15 p.m.)
7 p.m. Rachel Swarns discusses her book American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama (Amistad, $27.99, 9780061999864). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m. and July 15 at 6 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Stephanie Beasley, associate editor of FDA Week, interviews Martha Rosenberg, author of Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health (Prometheus Books, $24, 9781616145934). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m., Monday at 12 a.m. & 3 a.m., and July 15 at 12 p.m.)
11 p.m. David Horowitz presents his book The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future (Crown Forum, $27, 9780307716453). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m. and July 14 at 2:30 p.m.)
Sunday, July 8
7:45 p.m. At an event hosted by Basically Books, Hilo, Hawaii, David Hammes discusses his book Harvesting Gold: Thomas Edison's Experiment to Re-Invent American Money (Richard Mahler , $8.99, 9780985066703). (Re-airs July 14 at 8 a.m.)
