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 24
2:30 p.m. Fredrik Logevall, author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Random House, $23.99, 9780375756474).
3:55 p.m. Robert K. Brigham, author of Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, $37, 9781610397025).
5:45 p.m. Robert Edsel, author of Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and A Forever Promise Forged in World War II (Harper Horizon, $31.99, 9781400337811).
6:55 p.m. Rick Atkinson, author of The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Crown, $42, 9780593799185), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
Sunday, May 25
8 a.m. Christine Menedis, author of Why the World Doesn't Make Sense: Reclaiming the Liberty You Didn't Know You Lost (Forefront Books, $26, 9781637634318), at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Fla. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:05 a.m. Jonathan D. Cohen, author of Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling (Columbia Global Reports, $17.99, 9798987053706). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:05 p.m.)
2:45 to 8 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 San Antonio Book Festival in San Antonio, Tex. Highlights include:
- 2:45 p.m. Kyle Paoletta, author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (Pantheon, $30, 9780553387377).
- 3:30 p.m. Omar Valerio-Jiménez, author of Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship (The University of North Carolina Press, $29.95, 9781469675626).
- 4:10 p.m. Craig Garnett, author of Uvalde's Darkest Hour (Texas A&M University Press, $30, 9781648432996).
- 4:55 p.m. Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope (Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9781954118683).
- 5:40 p.m. Benjamin Heber Johnson, author of Texas: An American History (Yale University Press, $35, 9780300226720).
- 6:20 p.m. Russell Cobb, author of Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land (Beacon Press, $32.95, 9780807007372).
- 7:04 p.m. Ted Genoways, author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico (W.W. Norton, $31.99, 9780393292596).