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 12
2 p.m. Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment (Knopf, $30, 9780593534441), and Jon Grinspan, author of Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Bloomsbury, $32, 9781639730643).
3:20 p.m. Peter Canellos, author of The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero (Simon & Schuster, $21.99, 9781501188213).
4:25 p.m. Shirley L. Green, author of Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence (Westholme Publishing, $35, 9781594164064).
Sunday, October 13
8 a.m. Amanda Jones, author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Bloomsbury, $29.99, 9781639733538). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
10 a.m. Brigid Schulte, author of Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life (Holt, $31.99, 9781250801722). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11 a.m. Connie Chung, author of Connie: A Memoir (Grand Central, $32.50, 9781538766989). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
12:30 p.m. Kirk Cameron, author of Born to Be Brave: How to Be a Part of America's Spiritual Comeback (Post Hill Press, $28.99, 9798888454237).
2 p.m. Mike Madrid, author of The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy (Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668015261).
3:10 p.m. Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead, authors of Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691250526).
4:05 p.m. Jeremy Kahn, author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668053324).