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, October 21
12 p.m. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles visit Portland, Maine, to tour local literary and historical sites.
5:50 p.m. James Costa, author of Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory (Norton, $27.95, 9780393239898).
7 p.m. Gerald Horne, author of The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox (University of Illinois Press, $24.99, 9780252082733), at Eso Won Books in Los Angeles, Calif. (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
8 p.m. Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Rodale Books, $25.99, 9781635651089), at the Southern Festival of Books. (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
10 p.m. Gretchen Carlson, author of Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back (Center Street, $27, 9781478992172). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Kate Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay, co-editors of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America (Picador, $16, 9781250155504). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, October 22
1 p.m. Garrison Nelson, author of John William McCormack: A Political Biography (Bloomsbury Academic, $40, 9781628925166).
2:15 p.m. Hillary Clinton, author of What Happened (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501175565). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:15 p.m.)
4 p.m. Ward Churchill, author of Wielding Words Like Weapons: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1995–2005 (PM Press, $27.95, 9781629631011), at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore, Md.
10 p.m. Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War (Scribner, $30, 9781476761916), at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, Colo.
