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 1
2 p.m. Ken Rutherford, author of America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War (Savas Beatie, $29.95, 9781611214536). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.)
3:05 p.m. David J. Silverman, author of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving (Bloomsbury, $31, 9781632869258). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:05 a.m.)
Sunday, October 2
8 a.m. Henry Kissinger, author of Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy (Penguin Press, $36, 9780593489444). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Nicole Hemmer, author of Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s (Basic Books, $32, 9781541646889). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Rep. Cori Bush, author of The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America (Knopf, $28, 9780593320587). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11 a.m. Ellen Jovin, author of Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian (Mariner, $26.99, 9780358278153). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
12 p.m. Live In-Depth q&a with Dan Abrams, author and founder of Abrams Media. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
4 p.m. Gale Pooley, co-author of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet (Cato Institute, $34.95, 9781952223396).
5:30 p.m. Leah Boustan, co-author of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs, $29, 9781541797833).
7:30 p.m. Publishers Weekly editorial director Jim Milliot discusses the "upcoming publication of the House January 6th Committee report and how the publishing industry treated other major Congressional Reports."
