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 9
2:55 p.m. Jeremi Suri, author of Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy (PublicAffairs, $30, 9781541758544).
5:55 p.m. Lisa Tetrault, author of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (University of North Carolina Press, $32.50, 9781469633503).
Sunday, November 10
8 a.m. Lindsey Cormack, author of How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It) (Jossey-Bass, $28, 9781394278701), at Theodore's Books in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Gary Shapiro, author of Pivot or Die: How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes (Morrow, $29.99, 9780063374775). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
2 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival. Highlights include:
- 2 p.m. A discussion on New York City's history with Ava Chin, author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming, Tanisha Ford, author of Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, and Ross Perlin, author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.
- 2:46 p.m. A discussion on police and surveillance with Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ben Austen, author of Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change, and Petra Molnar, author of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
- 3:34 p.m. A discussion on the workplace with Carrie Sun, author of Private Equity: A Memoir, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, author of The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning, and Benjamin Waterhouse, author of One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America.
- 5:13 p.m. A discussion on social movements and solidarity with Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Hamilton Nolan, author of The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor, and Deepak Bhargava, author of Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World.
- 6:08 p.m. A discussion on debt with Luke Messac, author of Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine, Chrystin Ondersma, author of Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice, and Melissa Jacoby, author of Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal.
7:16 p.m. Abbott Kahler, author of Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II (Crown, $32, 9780451498656).