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, September 14
1:15 p.m. John Gilbert McCurdy, author of Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh (Johns Hopkins University Press, $34.95, 9781421448534).
4:15 p.m. James Marcus, author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691254333).
Sunday, September 15
8 a.m. Meridith McGraw, author of Trump in Exile (Random House, $32, 9780593729632), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Ilana Redstone, author of The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More--and How We Can Judge Others Less (Pitchstone Publishing, $29.95, 9781634312561). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
9:32 a.m. Randy Barnett, author of A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist (Encounter Books, $44.99, 9781641773775). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:32 p.m.)
10 a.m. Kim Wehle, author of Pardon Power: How The Pardon System Works--And Why (Woodhall Press, $22.95, 9781954907508). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Sebastian Junger, author of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781668050835), at BookPeople in Austin, Tex.
3:05 p.m. Renée DiResta, author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality (PublicAffairs, $34, 9781541703377).
4:20 p.m. H.R. McMaster, author of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House (Harper, $32.50, 9780062899507).
5:15 p.m. Wilbur Ross, author of Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life (Regnery, $32.99, 9781510781719).
6:20 p.m. Dana Bash, author of America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History (Hanover Square Press, $32.99, 9781335081070), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
