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 8
9:30 a.m. Mark A. Tabbert, author of A Deserving Brother: George Washington and Freemasonry (University of Virginia Press, $34.95, 9780813947211). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
2 p.m. Lynn Heidelbaugh and Thomas Paone, editors of Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family (Indiana University Press, $20, 9780253062970). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.)
Sunday, October 9
8 a.m. Linda Villarosa, author of Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation (Doubleday, $30, 9780385544887). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
8:55 a.m. Sen. Tim Scott, author of America, a Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity (Thomas Nelson, $28.99, 9781400236497). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:55 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.)
2 p.m. Chantel Prat, author of The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours (Dutton, $28, 9781524746605). (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
4:45 p.m. Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan (Penguin Press, $27, 9780593492048). (Re-airs Monday at 4:45 a.m.)
6:55 p.m. Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking, $30, 9780593490617). (Re-airs Monday at 6:55 a.m.)
