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 20
2 p.m. Susan Faludi, author of In the Darkroom (Picador, $20, 9781250132697), at the third annual Milford Readers and Writers Festival in Milford, Pa.
3:07 p.m. Jane Friedman, former CEO of HarperCollins and co-founder of Open Road, Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press, and self-published author Julie Barton discuss the future of the publishing industry at the Milford Readers and Writers Festival.
4:22 p.m. Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Back Bay Books, $19, 9780316159197), and Phil Klay, author of Redeployment (Penguin Books, $16, 9780143126829), at the Milford Readers and Writers Festival.
5:32 p.m. Alan Alda, author of If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating (Random House, $17, 9780812989151), at the Milford Readers and Writers Festival.
7:30 p.m. Lisa McCubbin, author of Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer (Gallery, $28, 9781501164682). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 a.m.)
8:40 p.m. Juan Williams, author of What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights (PublicAffairs, $27, 9781541788268).
10 p.m. Beth Macy, author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Little, Brown, $28, 9780316551243). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Matthew Horace and Ron Harris, authors of The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement (Hachette Books, $27, 9780316440080).
Sunday, October 21
12:30 a.m. John J. Mearsheimer, author of The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Yale University Press, $30, 9780300234190). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:30 p.m.)
2:18 p.m. New Yorker cartoonists Chris Weyant, Marisa Marchetto, Bob Eckstein and David Bo discuss their work at the Milford Readers and Writers Festival.
3:35 p.m. Sherry Amatenstein, author of How Does That Make You Feel?: True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch (Seal Press, $11.99, 9781580056243), at the Milford Readers and Writers Festival.
6:10 p.m. Mary Robinson, author of Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future (Bloomsbury, $26, 9781632869289).
7:30 p.m. David A. Kaplan, author of The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution (Crown, $30, 9781524759902).
10 p.m. Nick Bunker, author of Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity (Knopf, $30, 9781101874417).
11 p.m. Deborah Blum, author of The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Penguin Press, $28, 9781594205149), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
