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, February 9
5:10 p.m. Jon Ward, author of Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Twelve, $28, 9781455591381), at East City Bookshop in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Monday at 2:15 a.m.)
7:40 p.m. Joshua S. Goldstein, co-author of A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow (PublicAffairs, $26, 9781541724105), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
8:40 p.m. Amy Zegart and Herb Lin, authors ofBytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations (Brookings Institution Press, $45.99, 9780815735472). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
10 p.m. Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (PublicAffairs, $38, 9781610395694). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Richard Gergel, author of Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring (Sarah Crichton, $27, 9780374107895).
Sunday, February 10
6 p.m. The National African American Read-in, an event that promotes literacy during Black History Month, holds a breakfast to recognize the writing of African American authors.
7:30 p.m. Van Jackson, author of On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War (Cambridge University Press, $24.95, 9781108473484).
10 p.m. Shomari Wills, author of Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires (Amistad, $26.99, 9780062437594), at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y.
11 p.m. DaMaris Hill, author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (Bloomsbury, $25, 9781635572612), at Politics & Prose.
