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, November 30
7:45 p.m. Daniel Flynn, author of The War on Football: Saving America's Game (Regnery, $27.95, 9781621571551). (Re-airs Monday at 7 a.m.)
8:45 p.m. Lauren Taylor, co-author (with Elizabeth Bradley) of The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less (PublicAffairs, $26.99, 9781610392099).
10 p.m. After Words. Richard Brookhiser interviews Brian Kilmeade, author of George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution (Sentinel, $27.95, 9781595231031). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m., Monday at 3 a.m. and December 8 at 12 p.m.)
11 p.m. Noam Chomsky, author of On Anarchism (New Press, $15.95, 9781595589101).
Sunday, December 1
12 p.m. In Depth. Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men (S&S, $25, 9781451644180), 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. and December 7 at 9 a.m.)
7 p.m. Santiago Lyon, Peter Arnett, Nick Ut and Julie Jacobson discuss Vietnam: The Real War--A Photographic History by the Associated Press (Abrams, $40, 9781419708640).
8:15 p.m. Katrina Alcorn, author of Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink (Seal Press, $16, 9781580055239), at Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, Calif.
10 p.m. Co-editors Andrew and Stephen Schlesinger present The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Random House, $35, 9780812993097).
11 p.m. Mirta Ojito, author of Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town (Beacon, $24.95, 9780807001813), at Book Culture in New York City.
