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 31
9:30 a.m. Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668084946). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
6:40 p.m. Columbia University presents the 2025 Bancroft Prize to Kathleen DuVal, author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House, $25, 9780525511052), and James Tejani, author of A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America (W.W. Norton, $35, 9781324093558).
Sunday, June 1
8 a.m. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, authors of Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again (Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
2 p.m. Hassan A. Tetteh, author of Smarter Healthcare with AI: Harnessing Military Medicine to Revolutionize Healthcare for Everyone, Everywhere (Forbes Books, $29.99, 9798887504810).
3:15 p.m. Vicky Nguyen, author of Boat Baby: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668025567).
4:15 p.m. Michael Luo, author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America (Doubleday, $35, 9780385548571), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5:20 p.m. Columbia University Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University present the 2025 Lukas Prize to Rebecca Nagle, author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (Harper, $32, 9780063112049), and Kathleen DuVal, author of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House, $25, 9780525511052).
