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.
Sunday, May 19
8 a.m. Brian Kilmeade, author of Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality (Sentinel, $30, 9780593543825). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:10 a.m. Valerie Bauman, author of Inconceivable: Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning (Union Square, $27.99, 9781454951438). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:10 p.m.)
10 a.m. Jim Wallis, author of The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy (St. Martin's Essentials, $30, 9781250291899). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 San Antonio Book Festival, which took place last month in San Antonio, Tex. Highlights include:
- 2 p.m. Matthew Bowman, author of The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America (Yale University Press, $30, 9780300251388).
- 2:42 p.m. Joe Holley, author of Power: How the Electric Co-op Movement Energized the Lone Star State (Texas A&M University Press, $34.99, 9781648431562).
- 3:21 p.m. Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals (Norton, $17.99, 9781324076100).
- 4:05 p.m. Ana Raquel Minian, author of In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States (Viking, $32, 9780593654255).
- 4:48 p.m. Megan Kimble, author of City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Crown, $30, 9780593443781).
- 5:32 p.m. Jesús Jesse Esparza, author of Raza Schools: The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town (University of Oklahoma Press, $95, 9780806192710).
- 6:15 p.m. Cary Clack, author of More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope (Maverick Books, $22.95, 9781595342713).