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 8
5:10 p.m. Rebecca Brenner Graham, author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Citadel, $29, 9780806543178).
Sunday, March 9
9 a.m. Sally C. Pipes, author of The World's Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy--and How to Keep It (Encounter Books, $24.99, 9781641774079). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Knopf, $28, 9780593804148). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
3:05 p.m. Judith Giesberg, author of Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781982174323), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
4:10 p.m. Mara Einstein, author of Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics as Cults (Prometheus, $28.95, 9781493086153).
6 p.m. Mike Pepi, author of Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia (Melville House, $19.99, 9781685891374).
7 p.m. Eoin Higgins, author of Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left (Bold Type Books, $30, 9781645030461).
