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, December 4
9 a.m. Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy (Viking, $30, 9780525562177). (Re-airs Saturday at 9 p.m.)
4:45 p.m. Susan Kamei, author of When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII (Simon & Schuster, $22.99, 9781481401449). (Re-airs Sunday at 4:45 a.m.)
7 p.m. Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, $37.50, 9781476750378). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
Sunday, December 5
8 a.m. Douglas London, author of The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence (Hachette Books, $30, 9780306847301). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Noam Chomsky, co-author of Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance (Haymarket Books, $19.95, 9781642592634). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
11 a.m. Kristin Henning, author of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (Pantheon, $30, 9781524748906). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (Basic Books, $30, 9781541647534). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
4 p.m. Coverage of the 72nd annual National Book Awards. (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
6:30 p.m. Coverage of the eighth annual Kirkus Prize. (Re-airs Monday at 6:30 a.m.)
7:10 p.m. Huma Abedin, author of Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds (Scribner, $30, 9781501194801).
