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, April 13
9:30 a.m. B.J. Hollars, author of Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed the Course of History (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $24.95, 9781976600173). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
2 p.m. Richard Blackett, author of Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery (The University of North Carolina Press, $22.95, 9781469636108).
3:10 p.m. Mark Calhoon, author of General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army (University Press of Kansas, $54.95, 9780700620692).
Sunday, April 14
8 a.m. Craig Shirley, author of The Search for Reagan (Post Hill Press, $28.99, 9798888452936). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Abigail Shrier, author of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Sentinel, $30, 9780593542927). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women (Encounter, $29.99, 9781641773614). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2:55 p.m. Jonathan M. Metzl, author of What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 9781324050254).
4 p.m. Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Gallery, $28.99, 9781982168537).
5:15 p.m. Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us (University of California Press, $26.95, 9780520385641).
6:15 p.m. Robert Kuttner, author of Going Big: FDR's Legacy, Biden's New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy (The New Press, $23.99, 9781620977279).
