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.
Sunday, February 9
10 a.m. Omo Moses, author of The White Peril: A Family Memoir (Beacon Press, $27.95, 9780807004821). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Alan Lightman, author of The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature (Pantheon, $36, 9780593701485), at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Mass.
3 p.m. Kristen Martin, author of The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood (Bold Type Books, $32, 9781645030348), at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
3:55 p.m. Nathan Robinson, co-author, with Noam Chomsky, of The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World (Penguin Press, $32, 9780593656327).
5:20 p.m. Eric Dezenhall, author of Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made (Harper, $32, 9780063390614), at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
