Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend 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, September 28
5 p.m. Saru Jayaraman, author of Behind the Kitchen Door (ILR Press, $21.95, 9780801451720).
7 p.m. Scott Anderson, author of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385532921).
8:30 p.m. Peter Doherty, author of Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press USA, $16.95, 9780199898121). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:45 p.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Lynn Davis, former U.S. undersecretary for arms control and director of the RAND corporation's Washington office, interviews Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety (Penguin, $36, 9781594202278). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Kate Brown, author of Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press USA, $27.95, 9780199855766), at the Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, Md. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 a.m.)
Sunday, September 29
8:15 p.m. Kay Bailey Hutchison, author of Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas (HarperCollins, $27.99, 9780062130693).
10 p.m. Thomas Rid, author of Cyber War Will Not Take Place (Oxford University Press USA , $27.95, 9780199330638). (Re-airs Monday at 6 a.m.)
11 p.m. Debora Spar, author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (Sarah Crichton Books , $27, 9780374298753).
