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 13
11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Coverage of the 2018 Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison, Wis. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.). Highlights include:
- 11:30 a.m. Arno Michaelis and Pardeep Singh Kaleka, authors of The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate (St. Martin's Press, $26.99, 9781250107541).
- 1 p.m. Tommy Thompson, co-author of Tommy: My Journey of a Lifetime (University of Wisconsin Press, $29.95, 9780299320805).
- 2:30 p.m. Margaret Hagerman, author of White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press, $30, 9781479803682).
- 4 p.m. Dan Kaufman, author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics (Norton, $26.95, 9780393635201).
- 5 p.m. Donna Freitas, author of Consent on Campus: A Manifesto (Oxford University Press, $19.95, 9780190671150).
- 7 p.m. Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781501181795).
- 8:30 p.m. Carol Anderson, author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury, $27, 9781635571370).
10 p.m. Gina Loudon, author of Mad Politics: Keeping Your Sanity in a World Gone Crazy (Regnery, $28.99, 9781621578031). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Kurt Schlichter, author of Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy (Center Street, $27, 9781546081951). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:45 p.m.)
Sunday, October 14
1 p.m. Carol Adams, author of Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time (Conari Press, $16.95, 9781573247436), at the Baltimore Book Festival in Baltimore, Md.
1:51 p.m. Bettye Blaize and Terrence Woods, authors of Doing Time with my Son: A Mother and Son's Enduring Love Through Incarceration (Full Circle Press, $24, 9780997603231), at the Baltimore Book Festival.
2:39 p.m. Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Carty, authors of Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope (Haymarket Books, $18, 9781608468973), at the Baltimore Book Festival.
3:40 p.m. Charlene Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Beacon Press, $22, 9780807019412), at the Baltimore Book Festival.
4:32 p.m. William Anderson, author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press, $16, 9781849353168), at the Baltimore Book Festival.
7 p.m. Keach Hagey, author of The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire (HarperBusiness, $29.99, 9780062654090).
7:45 p.m. Shane Bauer, author of American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Penguin Press, $28, 9780735223585).
10 p.m. David Auerbach, author of Bitwise: A Life in Code (Pantheon, $27.95, 9781101871294).
11 p.m. Sean Wilentz, author of No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding (Harvard University Press, $26.95, 9780674972223).