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, November 25
3 p.m. Tom Shachtman, author of How the French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution (St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250080875). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 a.m.)
5 p.m. Linda Nathan, author of When Grit Isn't Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise (Beacon Press, $26.95, 9780807042984). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
5:50 p.m. Mike Wallace, author of Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (Oxford University Press, $45, 9780195116359). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
7 p.m. Rebecca Fraser, author of The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America (St. Martin's Press, $29.99, 9781250108562). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 a.m.)
8 p.m. A book party for Kenneth T. Walsh, author of Ultimate Insiders: White House Photographers and How They Shape History (Routledge, $29.95, 9781138737600). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:15 a.m. and Monday at 6:15 a.m.)
8:45 p.m. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivers the second annual Eudora Welty Lecture at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)
10 p.m. Christopher Bedford, author of The Art of the Donald: Lessons from America's Philosopher-in-Chief (Threshold Editions, $19.99, 9781501180347). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Michael Korda, author of Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory (Liveright, $29.95, 9781631491320). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, November 26
12 a.m. Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright, receives the Biographers International Organization's 2017 editorial excellence award. (Re-airs Sunday at 5:20 p.m.)
8 p.m. Jeff Fager, author of Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast (Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781501135804).
11 p.m. John Hechinger, author of True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America's Fraternities (PublicAffairs, $28, 9781610396820), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
