Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend from 8 a.m. Thursday 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.
Thursday, November 27
8:32 a.m. Dan Fagin, author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (Bantam, $28, 9780553806533). (Re-airs Thursday at 6:32 p.m., Saturday at 5:30 a.m., Sunday at 1 p.m. and Monday at 1 a.m.)
Friday, November 28
10:53 a.m. BookTV visits the Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library. (Re-airs Friday at 6:53 p.m.)
Saturday, November 29
12:45 a.m. David Treuer, author of Rez Life (Grove Press, $15.95, 9780802120823), at the 2014 National Book Festival.
1:15 p.m. Gary Segura, author of Latino America: How America's Most Dynamic Population Is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation (PublicAffairs, $26.99, 9781610395014), at the Miami Book Fair.
2:30 p.m. Sam Daley-Harris, author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government (Camino Books, $22, 9781933822846).
7 p.m. Thomas C. Reed, author of The Reagan Enigma: 1964-1980 (Figueroa Press, $21.95, 9780182181698). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 p.m.)
7:45 p.m. Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Knopf, $29.95, 9780385354042).
9 p.m. Arthur Laffer, co-author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States: How Taxes, Energy, and Worker Freedom Change Everything (Wiley, $29.95, 9781118921227).
10 p.m. Jonathan Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution (Norton, $27.95, 9780393073720). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Naomi Murakawa, author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Oxford University Press, $24.95, 9780199892808).
Sunday, November 30
2:45 p.m. Gerald Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (NYU Press, $39, 9781479893409).
5 p.m. Randall Kennedy, author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (Pantheon, $25.95, 9780307907370), at the Miami Book Fair.
7 p.m. Russ Roberts, author of How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness (Portfolio, $27.95, 9781591846840).
7:45 p.m. Gail Sheehy, author of Daring: My Passages: A Memoir (Morrow, $29.99, 9780062291691), at the 2014 Wisconsin Book Festival.
10 p.m. Allen West, author of Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom (Crown Forum, $26, 9780804138109).
11 p.m. Bill Nye, author of Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (St. Martin's Press, $25.99, 9781250007131).
