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 26
8 a.m. Paul M. Renfro, author of The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America (The University of North Carolina Press, $24.95, 9781469680859). (Re-airs Saturday at 8 p.m.)
2 p.m. Aaron Sheehan-Dean, author of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War (Harvard University Press, $29.95, 9780674984226).
4:30 p.m. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665925723).
Sunday, October 27
8 a.m. Jack Carr, author of Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror (Atria/Emily Bestler, $30.99, 9781668024355). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Arlie Hochschild, author of Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (The New Press, $30.99, 9781620976463). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Mike Waltz, author of Hard Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250286185). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Rebecca Nagle, author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (Harper, $32, 9780063112049), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
3 p.m. Warren M. Hern, author of Abortion in the Age of Unreason: A Doctor's Account of Caring for Women Before and After Roe v. Wade (Routledge, $24.99, 9781032847856).
4 p.m. Glenn Fine, author of Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government (University of Virginia Press, $29.95, 9780813952468).
5:53 p.m. David Friend, author of Naughty Nineties (Twelve, $24.99, 9781538767498).
