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, March 23
1 p.m. Bandy Lee, co-author of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (Thomas Dunne, $27.99, 9781250179456). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
5:30 p.m. Jeremy Brown, author of Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History (Atria, $26.99, 9781501181245).
6:30 p.m. William Burns, author of The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Random House, $32, 9780525508861), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
7:30 p.m. Robert Brown, author of You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World (Convergent Books, $26, 9781524762780).
9 p.m. Dorothy Gilliam, author of Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America (Center Street, $27, 9781546083443).
10 p.m. Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Case for Trump (Basic Books, $30, 9781541673540). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Coverage of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)
Sunday, March 24
12:30 a.m. William Davies, author of Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason (Norton, $27.95, 9780393635386).
6:20 p.m. Amy Webb, author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity (PublicAffairs, $27, 9781541773752), at Politics and Prose.
7:20 p.m. John Brockman, editor of Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI (Penguin Press, $28, 9780525557999).
10 p.m. David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (Riverhead, $28, 9781594633157), at Politics and Prose.
11:10 p.m. Joseph Fischel, author of Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice (University of California Press, $34.95, 9780520295414).
