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, August 6
9:30 a.m. Bob Calhoun, author of The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area (ECW, $19.95, 9781770415492). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
2 p.m. David Eisenhower, author of Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969 (Simon & Schuster, $20.99, 9781439190913). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.)
Sunday, August 7
8 a.m. Betsy DeVos, author of Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child (Center Street, $29, 9781546002017). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, $32, 9781541675445). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
11 a.m. Stuart Mackintosh, author of Climate Crisis Economics (Routledge, $44.95, 9780367478698). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Larry Elder, author of The Ten Things You Can't Say in America (St. Martin's Press, $23.95, 9780312266608). (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
4:40 p.m. Dan Pfeiffer, author of Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America (Twelve, $30, 9781538707975).
5:50 p.m. Lisa Forbes, author of I Can Take It from Here: A Memoir of Trauma, Prison, and Self-Empowerment (Steerforth Press, $17.95, 9781586423049).
6:25 p.m. Chris Hedges, author of Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison (Simon & Schuster, $26.99, 9781982154431).
7:30 p.m. Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Felon: Poems (Norton, $15.95, 9780393542035).
