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, March 16
8 a.m. Mary Ziegler, author of Roe: The History of a National Obsession (Yale University Press, $27, 9780300266108). (Re-airs Saturday at 8 p.m.)
2 p.m. Candice Shy Hooper, author of Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail (Potomac Books, $36.95, 9781640124486).
5:55 p.m. James L. Swanson, author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Morrow, $19.99, 9780060518509).
Sunday, March 17
8 a.m. Rachel Bitecofer, author of Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game (Crown, $30, 9780593727140), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Kristin Carlucci Weed, co-author of Get Me Carlucci: A Daughter Recounts Her Father’s Legacy of Service (Disruption Books, $29.95, 9781633310834). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Jane Marie, author of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans (Atria, $29, 9781982155773). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Lorraine Daston, author of Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Columbia Global Reports, $17, 9798987053560).
3:20 p.m. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, author of America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy (Basic Books, $35, 9781541601994).
5 p.m. Laura Pappano, author of School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education (Beacon Press, $28.95, 9780807012666), at Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, Pa.
6 p.m. Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane, authors of Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K-12, and College (Teachers College Press, $35.95, 9780807769461).
