This Weekend on Book TV: The Mississippi Book Festival

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, October 5
3:45 p.m. Jonathan Schroeder, editor of The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery by John Swanson Jacobs (‎University of Chicago Press, $20, 9780226684307).

4:55 p.m. Tore C. Olsson, author of Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250287700).

6:05 p.m. John L. Smith, Jr., author of The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to be Intimidated" (Westholme Publishing, $32.50, 9781594164217).

Sunday, October 6
8 a.m. Melissa B. Jacoby, author of Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal (The New Press, $27.99, 9781620977866), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)

9 a.m. Tevi Troy, author of The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry (‎Regnery, $32.99, 9781684515400). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)

10 a.m. Timothy Snyder, author of On Freedom (Crown, $32, 9780593728727). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)

2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Mississippi Book Festival, which took place September 14 in Jackson, Miss. Highlights include:

  • 2 p.m. A discussion on African American history with Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America, Mark Whitaker, author of Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement and Jasmine L. Holmes, author of Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved.
  • 3:03 p.m. Garrett M. Graff, author of When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day (Avid Reader Press/S&S, $32.50, 9781668027813).
  • 4:06 p.m. A discussion on money in politics with Luke and Brody Mullins, authors of The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government (Simon & Schuster, $34.99, 9781982120597), and Shad White, author of Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America (Steerforth, $29, 9781586423865).
  • 5:01 p.m. Jerry Mitchell, author of Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era (Simon & Schuster, $18, 9781451645149).
  • 5:54 p.m. Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35, 9780374279295), and Robert Samuels, author of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Penguin Books, $20, 9780593490822).
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