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, June 30
6 p.m. Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch: The Biography (Basic Books, $27, 9781541644946), at Lemuria Books in Jackson, Miss. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
6:45 p.m. Rachel Devlin, author of A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools (Basic Books, $32, 9781541697331).
7:45 p.m. Michelle Obama's keynote address at American Library Association's annual conference. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:45 p.m.)
9 p.m. Dan Abrams, author of Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency (Hanover Square Press, $26.99, 9781335424693), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:30 a.m.)
10 p.m. Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (One World, $28, 9780399590832). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Ken Bensinger, author of Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal (Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781501133909), at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles, Calif. (Re-airs Sunday at 5:30 p.m.)
Sunday, July 1
12:10 a.m. Roxane Gay, author of Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062413512). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 p.m.)
10:30 a.m. Janet Jones and Alyson Turner of Source Booksellers, Detroit, Mich., in a discussion from BookExpo.
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with thriller author Brad Thor. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
6:45 p.m. Andrew Selee, author of Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together (PublicAffairs, $28, 9781610398596).
7:50 p.m. Peter Stark, author of Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father (Ecco, $35, 9780062416063), at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Wash.
