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 23
9:30 a.m. Steve Drummond, author of The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two (Hanover Square Press, $32.99, 9781335449504). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
2 p.m. Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Oxford University Press, $39.99, 9780197552797).
3:05 p.m. Mark Kelley, author of An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith (Penn State University Press, $24.95, 9780271096759).
Sunday, March 24
8:55 a.m. Jacob Heilbrunn, author of America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators (Liveright, $28.99, 9781324094661). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:55 p.m.)
9:55 a.m. Teresa Ghilarducci, author of Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy (University of Chicago Press, $25, 9780226831466). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:55 p.m.)
10:55 a.m. Anna Motz, author of If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence (Knopf, $30, 9780593534151). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:55 p.m.)
12 p.m. Jason Puskar, author of The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans (University of Minnesota Press, $34.95, 9781517915407), at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wis. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
2 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Savannah Book Festival in Savannah, Ga. Highlights include:
- 2 p.m. Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA (Crown, $32.50, 9780593238172).
- 2:50 p.m. Michael L. Thurmond, author of James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder's Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist (University of Georgia Press, $29.95, 9780820366043).
- 3:30 p.m. Victor Luckerson, author of Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street (Random House, $30, 9780593134375).
- 4:05 p.m. Dayton Duncan, co-author of Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo (Knopf, $40, 9780593537343).
- 4:51 p.m. Amy Kurzweil, author of Artificial: A Love Story (Catapult, $38, 9781948226387).
- 5:41 p.m. Adam Lazarus, author of The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams (Citadel, $29, 9780806542508).
- 6:24 p.m. James L. Swanson, author of The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America (Scribner, $30, 9781501108167).