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 24
9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Live coverage of the 2024 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Highlights include:
- 9:30 a.m. A discussion on exploration with Amanda Bellows, author of The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions, and Hampton Sides, author of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.
- 10:30 a.m. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author, most recently, of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, takes live call-in questions.
- 10:50 a.m. A discussion on resistance movements with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, and Tiya Miles, author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People.
- 11:50 a.m. Yuval Levin, author of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation--and Could Again, takes live call-in questions.
- 12:10 p.m. A discussion on Native Americans with Ned Blackhawk, author of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, and Kathleen DuVal, author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
- 1:10 p.m. Stuart E. Eizenstat, author of The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World, takes live call-in questions.
- 1:30 p.m. Erik Larson, author of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, discusses the Civil War.
- 2:15 p.m. An interview with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
- 2:50 p.m. A discussion on misinformation with Annalee Newitz, author of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, and Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.
- 3:50 p.m. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, takes live call-in questions.
- 4:10 p.m. Marie Arana, author of LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority, discusses Latinos in America.
- 4:55 p.m. Laura Beers, author of Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century, discusses George Orwell.
- 6:50 p.m. A discussion on politicians and writing with Carlos Lozada, author of The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, and Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.
Sunday, August 25
8 a.m. Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Doubleday, $27, 9780385549936). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
2 p.m. Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Little, Brown Spark, $30, 9780316536752).
3:15 p.m. Clayton Page Aldern, author of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains (Dutton, $30, 9780593472743).
4:15 p.m. Sean Carroll, author of Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe (Dutton, $26, 9780593186602).
5:20 p.m. Daniela Rus, author of The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 9781324050230).