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, June 2
8 a.m. Fareed Zakaria, author of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 9780393239232). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:05 a.m. David Masciotra, author of Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy (Melville House, $28.99, 9781685890896), at Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago, Ill. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:05 p.m.)
10 a.m. Mike Hixenbaugh, author of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms (Mariner, $32.50, 9780063307247). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
1:55 p.m. Angela Zhang, author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy (Oxford University Press, $34.95, 9780197682258).
3:30 p.m. Dr. Uché Blackstock, author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine (Viking, $28, 9780593491287), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5 p.m. Simon & Schuster's centennial celebration featuring Hillary Clinton, Jerry Seinfeld, Charlamagne tha God, Brad Thor, Stephen King, Judy Blume, John Irving, and other authors.
