Book TV airs on C-Span 2 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, March 29
12 p.m. Book TV offers highlights from the fifth annual Tucson Festival of Books, which took place March 14-15 at the University of Arizona. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. James Lacy, author of Taxifornia: Liberals' Laboratory to Bankrupt America (Post Hill Press, $26, 9781618689887). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
8:45 p.m. Michio Kaku, author of The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385530828), at Rainy Day Books in Kansas City, Mo. (Re-airs Monday at 6 a.m.)
10 p.m. Walid Phares, author of The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid (Palgrave Macmillan, $27, 9781137279033). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m.)
11 p.m. Alvin Townley, author of Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned (Thomas Dunne, $27.99, 9781250006530).
Sunday, March 30
1 p.m Continuing coverage of the Tucson Festival of Books, including panels and author interviews. (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
6 p.m. Stephen Haber and Charles Calomiris, authors of Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (Princeton University Press, $35, 9780691155241).
7:30 p.m. Copyright lawyer Marie Breaux discusses author's rights at the 2014 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, which took place March 19-23 in New Orleans.
11 p.m. Koritha Mitchell, author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press, $28, 9780252078804).
