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, March 1
5:25 p.m. Randall Fuller, author of Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism (Oxford University Press, $27.99, 9780192843630).
Sunday, March 2
10 a.m. Kevin Fagan, author of The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances (Atria/One Signal, $28.99, 9781668017111). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11 a.m. Pagan Kennedy, author of The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story (Vintage, $19, 9780593314715), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
12 p.m. Charles Piller, author of Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's (Atria/One Signal, $28.99, 9781668031247), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
3:05 p.m. Paul North and Paul Reitter, translators for a new edition of Capital by Karl Marx (Princeton University Press, $39.95, 9780691190075), at McNally Jackson Bookstore in New York City.
4:10 p.m. Valerie Bauerlein, author of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty (Ballantine, $32, 9780593500583).
6:19 p.m. Mac Barnett is inaugurated as the ninth Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
