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 29
1:15 p.m. Christopher Wolf, author of Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet (Palgrave Macmillan, $27, 9780230342170), at Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C.
4:15 p.m. Luis Fleischman, author of Latin America in the Post-Chávez Era: The Security Threat to the United States (Potomac Books, $29.95, 9781612346014). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:15 a.m.)
9 p.m. Alfredo Corchado, author of Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness (Penguin, $27.95, 9781594204395).
10 p.m. After Words. Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War interviews Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Savior Generals: How Five Commanders Saved Wars that Were Lost--From Ancient Greece to Iraq (Bloomsbury Press, $28, 9781608191635). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. & 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Allen Guelzo, author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (Knopf, $35, 9780307594082).
Sunday, June 30
2 p.m. Ray Monk, author of Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center (Random House, 9780385504072).
4:45 p.m. Jessica Wapner, author of The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level (The Experiment, $25.95, 9781615190676), at Powell's City of Books, Portland, Ore.
6 p.m. Book TV in London presents Simon Jenkins, author of A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation (PublicAffairs, $16.99, 9781610392310). (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
6:30 p.m. Book TV in London presents Peter Ackroyd, author of Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (Thomas Dunne Books, $30, 9781250003621, October). (Re-airs Monday at 2:30 a.m.)
7 p.m. Anita Raghavan, author of The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund (Business Plus, $29, 9781455504022).
10 p.m. Ben Mezrich, author of Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down... (Morrow, $27.99, 9780062240095).
10:45 p.m. Curtis White, author of The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers (Melville House, $23.95, 9781612192000).
