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 27
9:30 a.m. Talmage Boston, author of How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents (Post Hill Press, $32, 9781637586976), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
10:25 a.m. Stacy Schiff, author of A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (Holt, $22.99, 9780805080094). (Re-airs Saturday at 10:25 p.m.)
2 p.m. Howell Raines, author of Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History (Crown, $36, 9780593137758).
4:50 p.m. Antonia Hylton, author of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Legacy Lit, $30, 9781538723692), at Politics and Prose.
Sunday, April 28
8 a.m. Alexander Ward, author of The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump (Portfolio, $32, 9780593539071), at People's Book in Takoma Park, Md. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
8:55 a.m. Timothy P. Carney, author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be (Harper, $29.99, 9780063236462). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:55 p.m.)
10 a.m. Susan Page, author of The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon & Schuster, $30.99, 9781982197926). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. David Finkel, author of An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country (Random House, $32, 9780593597064).
3:15 p.m. Barbara McQuade, author of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America (Seven Stories Press, $35, 9781644213636).
4:30 p.m. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, author of Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the "Criminal Alien" (The New Press, $27.99, 9781620977798).
5:30 p.m. Michael Kimmage, author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability (Oxford University Press, $29.99, 9780197751794), at Politics and Prose.
6:30 p.m. Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea, authors of We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War (Republic Book Publishers, $29.95, 9781645720928).
7:30 Publishing industry analyst Brenna Connor discusses "sales trends and bestsellers in the first quarter of 2024, as well as predictions for the remainder of the year."
