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 12
3 p.m. Lucas Morel, author of Lincoln and the American Founding (Southern Illinois University Press, $24.95, 9780809337859). (Re-airs Sunday at 3 a.m.)
4:55 p.m. Annette Gordon-Reed, author of On Juneteenth (Liveright, $15.95, 9781631498831). (Re-airs Sunday at 4:55 a.m.)
5:45 p.m. Caroline Janney, author of Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox (The University of North Carolina Press, $24.99, 9781469663371). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:45 a.m.)
Sunday, February 13
8 a.m. Maggy Krell, author of Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker (NYU Press, $22.95, 9781479803040). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Larry Spencer, author of Dark Horse: General Larry O. Spencer and His Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentagon (Naval Institute Press, $24.95, 9781682477021). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Will Haskell, author of 100,000 First Bosses: My Unlikely Path as a 22-Year-Old Lawmaker (Avid Reader Press, $27.99, 9781982164010). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Roosevelt Montas, author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Princeton University Press, $24.95, 9780691200392).
3 p.m. Patrisse Cullors, author of An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (St. Martin's Press, $26.99, 9781250272973).
5:45 p.m. Rep. Jamie Raskin, author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy (Harper, $27.99, 9780063209787).
6:55 p.m. Michael Stewart Foley, author of Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash (Basic Books, $32, 9781541699571).
