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, March 26
12 p.m. Coverage from the 22nd annual Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Va. (Re-airs Sunday 12 a.m.)
4:20 p.m. Jim Downs, author Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books, $27.99, 9780465032709). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:15 p.m.)
7 p.m. Patricia Bell-Scott, author of The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (Knopf, $30, 9780679446521). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
8:15 p.m. Peter Ross Range, author of 1924: The Year That Made Hitler (Little, Brown, $28, 9780316384032), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 4:45 p.m.)
9 p.m. James Walsh, author of Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer (Scribner, $26, 9781476778341). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 a.m.)
10 p.m. Nancy L. Cohen, author of Breakthrough: The Making of America's First Woman President (Counterpoint, $26, 9781619026117). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Iris Bohnet, author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design (Belknap, $26.95, 9780674089037), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 a.m.)
Sunday, March 27
1 p.m. Continuing coverage from the 22nd annual Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Va. (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
8 p.m. Michael Waldman, author of The Fight to Vote (Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781501116483).