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, June 7
9:30 a.m. Jared Cohen, author of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House (Simon & Schuster, $20.99, 9781982154554). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
7:05 p.m. Diane Kiesel, author of When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law (University of Michigan Press, $30, 9780472133581).
Sunday, June 8
8 a.m. David McCormick and Dina Powell McCormick, authors of Who Believed in You: How Purposeful Mentorship Changes the World (HarperCollins, $29.99, 9781400235919). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
8:45 a.m. Jeanne Theoharis, author of King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South (The New Press, $30.99, 9781620979310). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:45 p.m.)
2:25 to 8 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Md. Highlights include:
- 2:25 p.m. Barbara Bradley Hagerty, author of Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice.
- 3:13 p.m. Casey Burgat, author of We Hold These "Truths": How to Spot the Myths that Are Holding America Back.
- 4 p.m. Alan Weisman, author of Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future, and Malcolm Harris, author of What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis.
- 4:48 p.m. David Hajdu, author of The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI.
- 5:29 p.m. Russell Shorto, author of Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America.
- 6:17 p.m. Amanda Becker, author of You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America, and Colleen Long, author of I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America.
- 7:06 p.m. Rick Atkinson, author of The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780.