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.
Sunday, February 25
8 a.m. John A. Burtka IV, author of Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill (Gateway Editions, $19.99, 9781684515431). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
10 a.m. Kara Swisher, author of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982163891). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. to 7:25 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Highlights include:
- 2 p.m. Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone.
- 3:30 p.m. A discussion on President Biden with Valerie Biden Owens, author of Growing Up Biden: A Memoir, and Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels.
- 4:15 p.m. A discussion on storytelling with playwright Jon Robin Baitz and Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.
- 5 p.m. David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.
- 5:48 p.m. Adam Kinzinger, author of Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country.
- 6:32 p.m. Donna Brazile, co-author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics.
7:25 p.m. Ernest Scheyder, author of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives (Atria/One Signal, $30, 9781668011805).