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, August 1
4:45 p.m. Jared Bernstein, author of The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity (CreateSpace, $12.55, 9781511769389). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
7 p.m. Glenn Beck, author of It IS About Islam: Exposing the Truth About ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the Caliphate (Threshold Editions, $14.99, 9781501126123). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.)
7:30 p.m. Kentaro Toyama, author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology (PublicAffairs, $27.99, 9781610395281).
9 p.m. Aubrey Hruby and Jake Bright, authors of The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse (Thomas Dunne, $25.99, 9781250063717). (Re-airs Monday at 5:30 a.m.)
10 p.m. Michael Tanner, author of Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis (Cato Institute, $18.95, 9781939709745). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Terry Alford, author of Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Oxford University Press, $29.95, 9780195054125).
Sunday, August 2
12 p.m. In depth q&a with Medea Benjamin, author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control (Verso, $16.95, 9781781680773). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
4:15 p.m. Alvin E. Roth, author of Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780544291133).
7 p.m. Ralph Peters, author of Valley of the Shadow: A Novel (Forge Books, $26.99, 9780765374035).
8:15 p.m. Richard Paul and Steven Moss, authors of We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program (University of Texas Press, $30, 9780292772496), at BookPeople in Austin, Tex.
10 p.m. William Davies, author of The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being (Verso, $26.95, 9781781688458).
