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, November 2
9:20 a.m. Kenneth Whyte, author of Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Vintage, $24, 9780307743879), and George Nash, editor of The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath (Hoover Institution Press, $39.95, 9780817916749). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:20 p.m.)
2 p.m. Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant, authors of Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, $36.99, 9780197601044).
4:06 p.m. Gary Ecelbarger, author of George Washington's Momentous Year: Twelve Months That Transformed the Revolution, Vol. I: The Philadelphia Campaign, July to December 1777 (Westholme Publishing, $34.95, 9781594164224).
5:05 p.m. Donald Stoker, author of Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present (Cambridge University Press, $44.99, 9781009257275).
Sunday, November 3
8 a.m. John Grisham and Jim McCloskey, authors of Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions (Doubleday, $30, 9780385550444). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
10 a.m. Lina Zeldovich, author of The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost--and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250283382). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Daniel Schulman, author of The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America (Knopf, $35, 9780451493545), at the 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago.
2:52 p.m. Arionne Nettles, author of We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything (Lawrence Hill Books, $28.99, 9781641608305), and Elizabeth Todd-Breland, author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s (The University of North Carolina Press, $32.50, 9781469646572), at the 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago.
4:40 p.m. John Sullivan, author of Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West (Little, Brown, $32.50, 9780316571098).
5:30 p.m. Benjamin Nathans, author of To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (Princeton University Press, $39.95, 9780691117034), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
6:35 p.m. Evan Friss, author of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore (Viking, $30, 9780593299920), at New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville, Va.
