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, August 3
12:30 p.m. Matthew Algeo, author of When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art (Chicago Review Press, $28.99, 9781641607872). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
5:45 p.m. Stacy Schiff, author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (Back Bay, $21.99, 9780316441094).
Sunday, August 4
8 a.m. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, author of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between (Simon & Schuster, $26.99, 9781668072318). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:05 a.m. John Ganz, author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374605445). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:05 p.m.)
2 to 6:30 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, N.Y. Highlights include:
- 2 p.m. David Roll, author of Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World (Dutton, $33, 9780593186442).
- 2:49 p.m. David Pietrusza, author of Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City (Diversion Books, $19.99, 9781635769890).
- 3:29 p.m. Sheryl Kaskowitz, author of A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression--One Song at a Time (Pegasus Books, $29.95, 9781639365715).
- 4:13 p.m. Molly Guptill Manning, author of The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II (Blackstone Publishing, $25.99, 9798200961597).
- 5:36 p.m. Paul M. Sparrow, author of Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh--and the Battle to Save Democracy (Pegasus Books, $29.95, 9781639366675).
6:30 p.m. Yuval Levin, author of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation--and Could Again (Basic Books, $32, 9780465040742).