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, May 10
3:05 p.m. Thomas R. Flagel, author of War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion (The Kent State University Press, $42, 9781606353714).
7 p.m. Thomas Maier, author of The Invisible Spy: Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War II (Hanover Square Press, $32.99, 9781335000606).
Sunday, May 11
8 a.m. Frank Lavin, author of Inside the Reagan White House: A Front-Row Seat to Presidential Leadership with Lessons for Today (Post Hill Press, $30, 9798888456941). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Leah Sottile, author of Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age (Grand Central, $30, 9781538742600). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Sophie Gilbert, author of Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Penguin Press, $30, 9780593656297). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Kathleen deLaski, author of Who Needs College Anymore?: Imagining a Future Where Degrees Won't Matter (Harvard Education Press, $34, 9781682539521), at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass.
3:05 p.m. Dr. Robert C. Smith, author of Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?: Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It (Prometheus, $28.95, 9781493087655).
4:10 p.m. Adam Gussow, author of My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir (Emancipation Books, $32, 9798888457658), at Off Square Books in Oxford, Miss.
7 p.m. Kimberly Heckler, author of A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer (Lyons Press, $34.95, 9781493086085).
