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 21
9:30 a.m. Randall Woods, author of John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People (Dutton, $45, 9780593187241). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
2:50 p.m. Brooke Harrington, author of Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism (W.W. Norton, $22, 9781324064947). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.)
5:45 p.m. Edward B. Foley, author of Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States (Oxford University Press, $29.95, 9780197775844).
Sunday, September 22
8 a.m. Louis Sarkozy, author of Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era (Frontline Books, $42.95, 9781399055239), at Bonjour Books in Kensington, Md. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:35 a.m. Rainer Zitelmann, author of How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity (Encounter Books, $29.99, 9781641773959). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:35 p.m.)
2 p.m. Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (Random House, $30, 9780593133972).
3:40 p.m. Jack Turban, author of Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity (Atria, $29.99, 9781668017043), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
4:35 p.m. Shannon Vallor, author of The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press, $29.99, 9780197759066).
5:40 p.m. Jesselyn Cook, author of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family (Crown, $30, 9780593443255).
6:40 p.m. Alexander Justice Moore, author of The Food Fighters: A History of DC Central Kitchen (iUniverse, $30.99, 9781663262882).
