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 30
5:55 p.m. Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America (Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668002476).
Sunday, March 31
10 a.m. Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11 a.m. Amanda Collins Johnson, author of Beyond Survival: Reclaiming My Life After I Survived Rape (Redemption Press, $19.99, 9781646450619). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
2:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Ariz. Highlights include:
- 2:30 Kashmir Hill, author of Your Face Belongs to Us, Jeff Horwitz, author of Broken Code, and Barbara McQuade, author of Attack From Within, on digital information and disinformation.
- 3:30 Martin Baron, author of Collision of Power, Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician, and Brian Stelter, author of Network of Lies, on the future of the free press.
- 4:28 Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life, Antonia Hylton, author of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, and Edwin Raymond, author of An Inconvenient Cop, on race and the legacy of MLK Jr.
- 5:33 Martin Baron, author of Collision of Power, Robert Jones, author of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, and Barbara McQuade, author of Attack From Within, on First Amendment protections and abuses.
- 6:36 Steven Levitsky, author of Tyranny of the Minority, and Stephen Vladeck, author of The Shadow Docket, on the future of democracy.
7:40 p.m. Simon & Schuster president and CEO Jonathan Karp discusses the company's history and authors.