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 2
8 a.m. Edward Ball, author of Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy (Picador, $20, 9781250798619). (Re-airs Saturday 8 p.m.)
9:45 a.m. Lynn Hudson, author of West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California's Color Line (University of Illinois Press, $24.95, 9780252085253). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:45 p.m.)
2 p.m. Christopher J. Leahy, author of President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler (LSU Press, $39.95, 9780807172544). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.)
3 p.m. Page Harrington, author of Interpreting the Legacy of Women's Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, $35, 9781538118771). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 a.m.)
5:45 p.m. Mike Duncan, author of Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution (PublicAffairs, $30, 9781541730335). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:45 a.m.)
Sunday, October 3
8 a.m. Scott Gottlieb, author of Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic (Harper, $28.99, 9780063080010). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
8:55 a.m. Randall Kennedy, author of Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture (Pantheon, $30, 9780593316047). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:55 p.m.)
10 a.m. George Will, author of American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 (Hachette Books, $32, 9780306924415). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11 a.m. David Rubenstein, author of The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream (Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781982165734). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Beacon Press, $27.95, 9780807036297). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
4 p.m. Chris Wallace, co-author of Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982176525). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
5:10 p.m. Ada Ferrer, author of Cuba: An American History (Scribner, $32, 9781501154553). (Re-airs Monday at 5:10 a.m.)
6:30 p.m. Jillian Peterson and James Densley, authors of The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic (Abrams, $28, 9781419752957).
