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 28
1 p.m. An interview with Bradley Graham, co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., on the impacts of coronavirus. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:45 p.m.)
1:15 p.m. Richard Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 (Norton, $40, 9781324002109). (Re-airs Monday at 6 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. Robert C. Plumb, author of The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America (Potomac Books, $32.95, 9781640122239), at Politics & Prose. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
8:30 p.m. Rebecca Solnit, author of Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir (Viking, $26, 9780593083338), at Murmrr & Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Re-airs Sunday at 5 p.m.)
10 p.m. Eilene Zimmerman, author of Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy (Random House, $27, 9780525511007). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. A look at books about the Trump administration. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:30 p.m.)
Sunday, March 29
8 p.m. LeeAnna Keith, author of When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, $30, 9780809080311).
11 p.m. Serena Zabin, author of The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780544911154).
Saturday, March 28
1 p.m. An interview with Bradley Graham, co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., on the impacts of coronavirus. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:45 p.m.)
1:15 p.m. Richard Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 (Norton, $40, 9781324002109). (Re-airs Monday at 6 a.m.)
7:45 p.m. Robert C. Plumb, author of The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America (Potomac Books, $32.95, 9781640122239), at Politics & Prose. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
8:30 p.m. Rebecca Solnit, author of Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir (Viking, $26, 9780593083338), at Murmrr & Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Re-airs Sunday at 5 p.m.)
10 p.m. Eilene Zimmerman, author of Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy (Random House, $27, 9780525511007). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. A look at books about the Trump administration. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:30 p.m.)
Sunday, March 29
8 p.m. LeeAnna Keith, author of When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, $30, 9780809080311).
11 p.m. Serena Zabin, author of The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780544911154).