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, January 26
8:45 p.m. Peter Shinkle, author of Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler (Steerforth, $29.95, 9781586422431). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
10 p.m. Stephanie Land, author of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hachette Books, $27, 9780316505116). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Rob Reich, author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Princeton University Press, $27.95, 9780691183497), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
Sunday, January 27
2 p.m. Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, authors of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington (Flatiron, $29.99, 9781250130334), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
