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, June 22
5 p.m. Gerard N. Magliocca, author of Washington's Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (Oxford University Press, $45, 9780190947040).
5:55 p.m. Richard Gergel, author of Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of America (Picador, $18, 9781250251268).
Sunday, June 23
9 a.m. George Stephanopoulos, author of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis (Grand Central, $35, 9781538740767). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Lawrence Ingrassia, author of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery (Holt, $29.99, 9781250837226). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Keisha N. Blain, author of Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy (W.W. Norton, $28.99, 9781324065609).
3:50 p.m. Nell Irvin Painter, author of I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays (Doubleday, $35, 9780385548908).
5:25 p.m. Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp, Scholastic CEO Peter Warwick, and "other publishing industry leaders discuss how they are guiding their companies through a period of rapid change in the book industry," at the 2024 U.S. Book Show in New York.
6:20 p.m. Hampton Sides, author of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764).
7:30 p.m. Cass R. Sunstein, author of Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide (Harvard University Press, $22.95, 9780674298781).
