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 25
2 p.m. Roger Lowenstein, author of Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (Penguin Press, $30, 9780735223554). (Re-airs Sunday at 2 a.m.)
2:58 p.m. Walter Stahr, author of Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival (Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781501199233). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:58 a.m.)
3:41 p.m. John Rhodehamel, author of America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination (Johns Hopkins University Press, $27.95, 9781421441610). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:41 a.m.)
4:29 p.m. Elizabeth Leonard, author of Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life (The University of North Carolina Press, $36, 9781469668048). (Re-airs Sunday at 4:29 a.m.)
5:30 p.m. Jeff Guinn, author of Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781982186104). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:30 a.m.)
6:30 p.m. Andrew Delbanco delivers the 50th annual Jefferson Lecture, presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities, in which he discusses reparations for slavery. (Re-airs Sunday at 6:30 a.m.)
Sunday, February 26
8 a.m. Arthur Laffer, co-author of Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States (Post Hill Press, $28, 9781637585641). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
8:55 a.m. Jessica Lander, author of Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education (Beacon Press, $30.95, 9780807006658). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:55 p.m.)
2 p.m. Jonathan Augustine, author of Called to Reconciliation: How the Church Can Model Justice, Diversity, and Inclusion (Baker Academic, $19.99, 9781540965035). (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
3:55 p.m. Emily Bingham, author of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song (Knopf, $30, 9780525520795), and Renee Harrison, author of Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America (Fortress Press, $28, 9781506474670), at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tenn. (Re-airs Monday at 3:55 p.m.)
4:43 p.m. Margaret Burnham, author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (Norton, $30, 9780393867855), and Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco, $32.99, 9780062977403), at the Southern Festival of Books. (Re-airs Monday at 4:43 a.m.)
6:40 p.m. Donald Yacovone, author of Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity (Pantheon, $32.50, 9780593316634), at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass. (Re-airs Monday at 6:40 a.m.)
