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 17
12:30 p.m. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, author of Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic (Oxford University Press, $34.99, 9780197653845).
2 p.m. Niels Eichhorn and Duncan Campbell, authors of The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism (LSU Press, $55, 9780807181515).
4:25 p.m. Elaine Weiss, author of Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement (Atria/One Signal, $29.99, 9781668002698).
Sunday, May 18
8 a.m. John McWhorter, author of Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words (Avery, $28, 9780593713280). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
1 p.m. Leah Litman, author of Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes (Atria/One Signal, $29.99, 9781668054628).
2 p.m. Murray Carpenter, author of Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick (The MIT Press, $29.95, 9780262049504), at Book Passage Bookstore in San Francisco, Calif.
3 p.m. Susan Schneider, author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind (Princeton University Press, $16.95, 9780691216744).
5:30 p.m. Gerard Toal, author of Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (Oxford University Press, $29.95, 9780197693261).
6:35 p.m. Emily Feng, author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China (Crown, $29, 9780593594223), at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
7:30 p.m. Janet Webster Jones, owner of Source Booksellers in Detroit, Mich.
