Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this holiday weekend, from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Tuesday, 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, August 31
7:45 p.m. Graham Rayman, author of The NYPD Tapes: A Shocking Story of Cops, Cover-ups, and Courage (Palgrave Macmillan, $27, 9780230342279).
8:30 p.m. Michael Novak, author of Writing from Left to Right: My Journey from Liberal to Conservative (Image, $24, 9780385347464). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Radio host and political activist Joe Madison interviews Craig Steven Wilder, author of Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (Bloomsbury Press, $30, 9781596916814). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
Sunday, September 1
12 p.m. In Depth. Ben Shapiro, author most recently of Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans (Threshold, $25, 9781476709994), joins Book TV for a live interview. Viewers can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program or submitting questions to booktv@c-span.org or via Twitter (@BookTV). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (FSG, $27, 9780374102418).
10 p.m. Meredith Whitney, author of Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity (Portfolio, $27.95, 9781591845706).
11 p.m. Cris Beam, author To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780151014125), at the Strand Bookstore in New York City.
