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, December 8
12 p.m. Book TV visits Albany, N.Y., to interview several of the city's authors and tour its literary sites. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 a.m.)
2:45 p.m. Norman Finkelstein presents his book Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End (OR Books, $20, 9781935928775).
5 p.m. Kevin Mattson talks about his book Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech and the 'Rocking, Shocking' Election of 1952 (Bloomsbury USA, $25, 9781608198122). (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
7 p.m. William Silber, author of Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence (Bloomsbury Press, $30, 9781608190706), talks with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
9 p.m. Joyce Chaplin discusses Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (S&S, $35, 9781416596196). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m. and December 24 at 7 p.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Sibley Memorial Hospital president Richard Davis interviews Dr. Marty Makary, author of Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care (Bloomsbury Press, $26, 9781608198368). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. & 3 a.m.)
Sunday, December 9
1 p.m. Amy Gutmann talks about her book The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It (Princeton University Press, $24.95, 9780691153919). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
2 p.m. James Gustave Speth presents America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy (Yale University Press , $30, 9780300180763).
4 p.m. Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch discuss The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso, $29.95, 9781844677429).
7 p.m. David Nasaw talks about his book The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (Penguin, $40, 9781594203763). (Re-airs Monday at 11 p.m.)
8 p.m. Ethan Chorin presents his book Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution (PublicAffairs, $29.99, 9781610391719).
10 p.m. Robert Graysmith discusses Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco (Crown, $26, 9780307720566). (Re-airs Wednesday at 12 a.m.)
10:45 p.m. Newt Gingrich talks about his novel Victory at Yorktown (Thomas Dunne, $27.99, 9780312607074). (Re-airs Monday at 9:45 p.m.)
