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, May 11
1:15 p.m. Publication Party for David Stockman, author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America (PublicAffairs, $35, 9781586489120). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
4:45 p.m. At an event hosted by the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka, Ill., Steven Harper presents The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (Basic Books, 9780465058778).
7 p.m. Thane Rosenbaum talks about his book Payback: The Case for Revenge (University of Chicago Press, $26, 9780226726618).
8:30 p.m. Google's Jared Cohen and Eric Schmidt discuss their book The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business (Knopf, $26.95, 9780307957139). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:45 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Susan Glasser, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, interviews Christian Caryl, author of Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (Basic Books, $28.99, 9780465018383). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. & 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Jack Fuller presents his book Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward Levi (University of Chicago Press, $45, 9780226041315). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:45 p.m.)
Sunday, May 12
12:30 a.m. Michael D'Antonio discusses his book Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal (Thomas Dunne, $26.99, 9780312594893).
1 p.m. Robert Proctor presents his book Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (University of California Press, $49.95, 9780520270169). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m. and Monday at 1 a.m.)
2 p.m. At an event hosted by the Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, Madison, Wis., Gar Alperovitz talks about his book What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution (Chelsea Green, $17.95, 9781603585040).
6:30 p.m. Richard Seymour presents his book Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens (Verso, $16.95, 9781844679904). (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. Temple Grandin talks about her book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780547636450).
10:30 p.m. Marina von Neumann Whitman discusses her book The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir (University of Michigan Press, $30, 9780472118427).
