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, May 1
1 p.m. Frank M. Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, $22, 9780300256390).
2:05 p.m. Peter Canning, author of Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic (Johns Hopkins University Press, $27.95, 9781421439853), at Bank Square Books in Mystic, Conn.
6:10 p.m. Josh Rogin, author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780358393245).
7 p.m. David O. Stewart, author of George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father (Dutton, $32, 9780451488985).
8 p.m. Judy Batalion, author of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Morrow, $28.99, 9780062874214).
9 p.m. Chris Bail, author of Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing (Princeton University Press, $24.95, 9780691203423), at the Strand in New York City.
10 p.m. Cindy McCain, author of Stronger: Courage, Hope, and Humor in My Life with John McCain (Crown Forum, $28, 9780593236888). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, May 2
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Craig Shirley, author of Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother (Harper, $29.99, 9780062456519). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
4 p.m. Dorothy A. Brown, author of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It (Crown, $27, 9780525577324), at Charis Books and More in Decatur, Ga.
5:15 p.m. Kim Todd, author of Sensational: The Hidden History of America's Girl Stunt Reporters (Harper, $27.99, 9780062843616).
6 p.m. Katie Engelhart, author of The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die (St. Martin's Press, $27.99, 9781250201461).
7 p.m. Mustafa Akyol, author of Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance (St. Martin's Essentials, $27.99, 9781250256065).
8:05 p.m. Karen Tumulty, author of The Triumph of Nancy Reagan (Simon & Schuster, $32.50, 9781501165191).
