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 9
2:15 p.m. Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594205552). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
4:15 p.m. David Talbot, author of The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Harper, $29.99, 9780062276162), at the Green Arcade bookstore in San Francisco, Calif. (Re-airs Monday at 1:45 a.m.)
5:30 p.m. Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality (NYU Press, $35, 9781479815746). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:45 a.m.)
7 p.m. William P. Jones, author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (Norton, $16.95, 9780393349412). (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m. and Monday at 1 a.m.)
8 p.m. Sarah Palin, author of Sweet Freedom: A Devotional (Regnery Faith, $19.99, 9781621574637). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
9 p.m. Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood (Harper, $29.99, 9780062323644). (Re-airs Sunday at 5 p.m.)
10 p.m. James Rosen, author of Cheney One on One: A Candid Conversation with America's Most Controversial Statesman (Regnery, $27.99, 9781621574620). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, January 10
10 a.m. John Sedgwick, author of War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation (Berkley, $27.95, 9781592408528). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:15 p.m.)
4 p.m. John Norris, author of Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism (Viking, $28.95, 9780525429715). (Re-airs Monday at 7 a.m.)
7 p.m. Malcolm Gay, author of The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 9780374139841).
