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 30
1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Coverage of the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Va. (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.) Highlights include:
- 1 p.m. Hal Crowther, author of Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers: A Gallery of Memorable Southerners (Blair, $21.95, 9780932112774), and Charles Marsh, co-author of Can I Get a Witness?: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice (Eerdmans, $26.99, 9780802875730).
- 2:15 p.m. Melanie Hatter, author of Malawi's Sisters (Four Way Books, $19.95, 9781945588303).
- 3:16 p.m. Jesse Jarnow, author of Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America (Da Capo, $27, 9780306902079), and Tim Mohr, author of Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Algonquin, $28.95, 9781616208431).
- 4:26 p.m. Raymond Arsenault, author of Arthur Ashe: A Life (Simon & Schuster, $37.50, 9781439189047), and David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, $37.50, 9781416590316).
- 5:44 p.m. Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT (Viking, $17.99, 9780670012107), and Jason Reynolds, author of For Every One (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy, $14.99, 9781481486248).
7 p.m. Joseph Celeski, author of The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants: U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74 (Casemate, $32.95, 9781612006659). (Re-airs Monday at 6 a.m.)
8 p.m. David McCraw, author of Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (All Points, $28.99, 9781250184429), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
9 p.m. Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson, authors of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir (Hachette, $28, 9780316418089), at Warwick's Books in San Diego, Calif. (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
10 p.m. George Papadopoulos, author of Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump (Diversion Books, $28.99, 9781635764932). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Tony Platt, author of Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States (St. Martin's Press, $29.99, 9781250085115).
Sunday, March 31
12:25 a.m. Eric Topol, author of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (Basic Books, $32, 9781541644632).
1:20 a.m. Allen Lynch, author of Zero to Hero: From Bullied Kid to Warrior (Pritzker Military Museum & Library, $25, 9780998968926). (Re-airs Sunday at 6:50 p.m.)
3:50 p.m. Mitchell Jackson, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (Scribner, $26, 9781501131707).
7:30 p.m. Devin Fergus, author of Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Oxford University Press, $27.95, 9780199970162).
10 p.m. Samantha Allen, author of Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States (Little, Brown, $27, 9780316516037).
11 p.m. Carolyn Forché, author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press, $28, 9780525560371).