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, October 19
11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Coverage of the 2019 Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison, Wis. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.) Highlights include:
- 11:30 a.m. Farah Pandith, author of How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat (Custom House, $28.99, 9780062471154).
- 1 p.m. Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway and Minyon Moore, authors of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics (Picador, $18, 9781250137739).
- 2:30 p.m. Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right (Bloomsbury, $28, 9781635573190).
- 4 p.m. Marie Arana, author of Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501104244).
- 5:30 p.m. Adam Rippon, author of Beautiful on the Outside: A Memoir (Grand Central, $28, 9781538732403).
- 7 p.m. Leslie Jamison, author of Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays (Little, Brown, $28, 9780316259637).
- 8:30 p.m. Megan Phelps-Roper, author of Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374275839).
- 10 p.m. Michele Filgate, author and editor of What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster, $26, 9781982107345).
11 p.m. Gregg Jarrett, author of Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History (Broadside, $29.99, 9780062960092). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, October 20
6:55 p.m. Frank Mackaman and Sean Kelly, authors of Robert H. Michel: Leading the Republican House Minority (University Press of Kansas, $29.95, 9780700627592).
10 p.m. Mike German, author of Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy (The New Press, $27.99, 9781620973790).