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, July 20
7 p.m. Alexander Nazaryan, author of The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington (Hachette, $28, 9780316421430).
7:55 p.m. Dan Schilling, author of Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force (Grand Central, $29, 9781538729656), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
8:55 p.m. Suketu Mehta, author of This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374276027), at Astoria Bookshop in New York City.
10 p.m. Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino, authors of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court (Regnery, $28.99, 9781621579830). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Travis Rieder, author of In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids (Harper, $27.99, 9780062854643), at Politics and Prose.
Sunday, July 21
12 a.m. Guillaume Serina, author of An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb (Pegasus, $25.95, 9781643130842).
6:50 p.m. Andrew Blum, author of The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast (Ecco, $25.99, 9780062368614), at Politics & Prose.
7:50 p.m. Thomas Abt, author of Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets (Basic Books, $30, 9781541645721), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
10 p.m. Carl Hulse, author of Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh (Harper, $28.99, 9780062862914), at East City Bookshop in Washington, D.C.
11 p.m. Kim Wehle, author of How to Read the Constitution--and Why (Harper, $26.99, 9780062914361), at Politics and Prose.
