Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Tuesday 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, February 14
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Live coverage of the 2015 Savannah Book Festival in Savannah, Ga.
9 p.m. Jonathan Horn, author of The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History (Scribner, $28, 9781476748566). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 p.m.)
10 p.m. David Axelrod, author of Believer: My Forty Years in Politics (Penguin Press, $35, 9781594205873). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Knopf, $35, 9780375414145).
12 p.m. John O. Peters, author of From Marshall to Moussaoui: Federal Justice in the Eastern District of Virginia (The Dietz Press, $34.95, 9780875171432).
Sunday, February 15
1 p.m. N.D.B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (University of Chicago Press, $45, 9780226115146). (Re-airs Moday at 1 a.m.)
1:30 p.m. Daniel W. Webster, author of Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, $9.95, 9781421411101). (Re-airs Monday at 1:30 a.m.)
6:15 p.m. Michael Pillsbury, author of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower (Holt, $30, 9781627790109).
7:45 p.m. Elana Maryles Sztokman, author of The War on Women in Israel: A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom (Sourcebooks, $24.99, 9781492604594)
10 p.m. Reggie Love, author of Power Forward: My Presidential Education (Simon & Schuster, $26, 9781476763347), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
11 p.m. Levi Tillemann, author of The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future (Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781476773490).
