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, January 10
12 p.m. A panel discussion on James Burnham's Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (Encounter, $17.99, 9781594037832).
7 p.m. Staughton Lynd, author of Doing History from the Bottom Up: On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below (Haymarket, $17, 9781608463886).
8:15 p.m. Karen Masterson, author of The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure (NAL, $26.95, 9780451467324). (Re-airs Sunday at 1:25 p.m. and Monday at 1:25 a.m.)
9 p.m. Michael Zantovsky, author of Havel: A Life (Grove Press, $30, 9780802123152), at Politics & Prose Bookstore with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
10 p.m. Cass R. Sunstein, co-author of Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter (Harvard Business Review Press, $27, 9781422122990). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Nicholas Wapshott, author of The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II (Norton, $27.95, 9780393088885). (Re-airs Monday at 6:15 a.m.)
Sunday, January 11
1 p.m. Lester Spence, author of Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics (University of Minnesota Press, $22.50, 9780816669882). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
4:30 p.m. Timothy Sandefur, author of The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty (Cato Institute, $24.95, 9781939709035).
7:45 p.m. Gay Talese, author of The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (Bloomsbury, $35, 9781620406663).
10 p.m. Richard Bernstein, author of China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice (Knopf, $30, 9780307595881), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
11 p.m. W. Joseph Campbell, author of 1995: The Year the Future Began (University of California Press, $27.95, 9780520273993).
