This Weekend on Book TV: Nicholas Kristof

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 22
12 p.m. Carl Hiassen, author of Squirm (Knopf, $18.99, 9780385752978), at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

12:43 p.m. Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book (Simon & Schuster, $16.99, 9781476740195), at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.

1:29 p.m. Tim Harford, author of Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy (Riverhead, $16, 9780735216143), at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.

3:30 p.m. Samuel Woolley, author of The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth (PublicAffairs, $28, 9781541768253), at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.

4:15 p.m. Coverage of the National African American Read-in, an event that promotes literacy during Black History Month. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:20 a.m.)

6 p.m. Kevin Merida, co-author of The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99, 9781328940629). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:15 p.m.)

6:45 p.m. Mary Beth Norton, author of 1774: The Long Year of Revolution (Knopf, $32.50, 9780385353366). (Re-airs Monday at 4:40 a.m.)

8 p.m. Layla Saad, author of Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Sourcebooks, $25.99, 9781728209807).

10 p.m. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, authors of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (Knopf, $27.95, 9780525655084). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)

11 p.m. A discussion on race in America with Valerie Jarrett, author of Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward (Viking, $30, 9780525558132), and Susan Rice, author of Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501189975), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)

Sunday, February 23
2:45 a.m. Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Holt, $30, 9781250131201). (Re-airs Sunday at 6:50 p.m.)

5:55 p.m. John Tierney, co-author of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It (Penguin Press, $28, 9781594205521).

9:50 p.m. Vincent Brown, author of Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press, $35, 9780674737570).
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