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, December 16
12:15 p.m. Brooke Barbier, author of King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard University Press, $29.95, 9780674271777). (Re-airs Sunday at 12:15 a.m.)
Sunday, December 17
8 a.m. Adam Kinzinger, author of Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country (The Open Field, $30, 9780593654163). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:10 a.m. Joy Buolamwini, author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines (Random House, $28.99, 9780593241837). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:10 p.m.)
10 a.m. Tim Alberta, author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Harper, $35, 9780063226883). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Coverage of the Southern Festival of Books, which took place in October in Nashville, Tenn. Highlights include:
- 2 p.m. Sarah Beth Childers, author of Prodigals: A Sister's Memoir of Appalachia and Loss, and Kami Ahrens, author of The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South.
- 2:49 p.m. Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.
- 3:37 p.m. Jefferson Cowie, author of Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.
- 4:25 p.m. Tamika Y. Nunley, author of The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia.
- 5:09 p.m. Yasmine Ali, author of Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America, Rachel Louise Martin, author of A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation, and Emily Strasser, author of Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History.
- 5:59 p.m. Langston Collin Wilkins, author of Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town (University of Illinois Press, $24.95, 9780252087295).
- 6:44 p.m. Holly Gleason, author of Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine (Chicago Review Press, $19.99, 9781641606301).