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, February 4
1:30 p.m. Coverage from the 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.). Highlights include:
- Dr. David Agus, author of The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health (Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781476712109), at 1:30.
- Senator Barbara Boxer, author of The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life (Hachette, $27, 9780316311465), at 2:20.
- Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry on a panel about life and politics in Florida at 4.
- A panel on the environment with Douglas Brinkley, author of Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America (Harper, $35, 9780062089236), Edward Humes, author of Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Avery, $16, 9781583335239), and Theodore Roosevelt IV at 4:45.
- Lawrence Wright, author of Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace (Vintage, $16, 9780804170024) at 5:40.
8:45 p.m. Matt Taibbi, author of Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus (Spiegel & Grau, $26, 9780399592461). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 a.m.)
10 p.m. Hugh Hewitt, author of The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP Majority (Simon & Schuster, $24.99, 9781501172441). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Jameel Jaffer, author of The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law (New Press, $27.95, 9781620972595). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:15 p.m.)
Sunday, February 5
7 a.m. Kay Hymowitz, author of The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back (Rowman & Littlefield, $27, 9781442266575). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Nick Adams, author of Green Card Warrior: My Quest for Legal Immigration in an Illegals' System (Post Hill Press, $12.99, 9781682613054).
11 p.m. Michael Tomasky, author of Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series (Times Books, $25, 9781627796767), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.