This Weekend on Book TV: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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, July 30
10:05 a.m. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781476795928). (Re-airs Saturday at 10:05 p.m.)

2 p.m. Annette Dunlap, author of A Woman of Adventure: The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover (Potomac Books, $32.95, 9781640125155). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.)

3:20 p.m. Geraldine Hawkins, author of Elliott and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Story of a Father and His Daughter in the Gilded Age (‎Black Dome Press, $21.95, 9781883789848). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:20 a.m.)

Sunday, July 31
8:35 a.m. Mark Follman, author of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America (Dey Street, $27.99, 9780062973535). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:35 p.m.)

2 p.m. Don Carleton, author of The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby (Briscoe Center for American History, $39.95, 9780999731857).

2:47 p.m. Michael Burgess, author of Franklin and Eleanor in New York: The Progressive Agenda for Security and Prosperity That Became the New Deal (Troy Book Makers, $15.95, 9781614686910).

3:25 p.m. Kathryn Smith, author of Baptists & Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition Through the South (Consumer Publications, $29.95, 9781929647729).

4:02 p.m. Kathryn Olmsted, author of The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler (Yale University Press, $30, 9780300256420).

4:42 p.m. David McKean, author of Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler (St. Martin's Press, $29.99, 9781250206961).

6:15 p.m. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discusses the role of libraries in the digital age.

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