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, May 5
12:45 p.m. George C. Daughan, author of Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World (Norton, $27.95, 9780393245745). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:30 p.m.)
1:30 p.m. A discussion on the #MeToo movement with Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25, 9780544824249), Camille Dungy, author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers (Norton, $25.95, 9780393253757), Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me (Bloomsbury, $17, 9781632866585), and Cathi Hanauer, author of The Bitch Is Back (Morrow, $15.99, 9780062389527), at the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Mo. (Re-airs Sunday at 12:45 a.m.)
2:43 p.m. A discussion on the First Amendment with Lucas Morel, author of Lincoln and Liberty (University Press of Kentucky, $40, 9780813151014), David Von Drehle, author of Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year (Picador, $22, 9781250037800), and Lee Wilkins, author of Media Ethics (McGraw-Hill, $97, 9780073526249), at the Unbound Book Festival. (Re-airs Sunday at 1:58 a.m.)
3:54 p.m. A discussion on writing historical fiction with Christina Baker Kline, author of A Piece of the World (Morrow, $16.99, 9780062356277), Therese Anne Fowler, author of A Well-Behaved Woman (St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250095473), and Martin Seay, author of The Mirror Thief (Melville House, $17.99, 9781612195599), at the Unbound Book Festival. (Re-airs Sunday at 3:09 a.m.)
5:15 p.m. Brittany Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Martin's Press, $25.99, 9781250112576), at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore, Md.
9 p.m. Joseph Tartakovsky, author of The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America's Supreme Law (Encounter, $25.99, 9781594039850). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:45 p.m.)
10 p.m. Chris Hughes, author of Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn (St. Martin's Press, $19.99, 9781250196590). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 3 a.m.)
Sunday, May 6
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with David Baldacci, author, most recently, of The Fallen (Grand Central, $29, 9781538761397). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
4:45 p.m. Jonathan Jarvis, author of The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water (University of Chicago Press, $14, 9780226542058).
6:15 p.m. Ronan Farrow, author of War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (Norton, $27.95, 9780393652109).
10 p.m. Eileen McNamara, author of Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World (Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781451642261), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
11 p.m. Michael Gazzaniga, author of The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374715502).
