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, April 4
7 p.m. Kevin Carey, author of The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere (Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594632051).
9 p.m. Elliot Ackerman, author of Green on Blue: A Novel (Scribner, $25, 9781476778556).
10 p.m. Cornel West, editor of The Radical King (Beacon Press, $26.95, 9780807012826). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Michael Bohn, author of Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions Inside the White House from Truman to Obama (Arcade Publishing, $26.95, 9781628724318). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
Sunday, April 5
12 a.m. Noam Chomsky, author of Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013 (Haymarket, $12.95, 9781608463633). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:30 p.m.)
8:15 a.m. Anya Kamenetz, author of The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing--but You Don't Have to Be (PublicAffairs, $25.99, 9781610394413), at Book Passage bookstore in California. (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
