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 14
3:05 p.m. Frank W. Garmon Jr., author of A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age (LSU Press, $45, 9780807182161).
4:30 p.m. Joyce E. Chaplin, author of The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32, 9780374613808), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
5:30 p.m. Bennett Parten, author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668034682).
Sunday, June 15
8 a.m. Montel Williams, author of The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy's Iconic Aircraft Carrier (Hanover Square Press, $30, 9781335081032). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
12:45 p.m. Edna Bonhomme, author of A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19 (Atria/One Signal, $29.99, 9781982197834).
1:45 p.m. Mike Tidwell, author of The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250362261).
4:25 p.m. Rachel Frazin, co-author of Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America (Island Press, $32, 9781642833324), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
6:05 p.m. Jocelyn Benson, author of The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High (The Open Field, $30, 9780593994207).
7 p.m. Edward Tenner, author of Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences ( The American Philosophical Society Press, $34.95, 9781606180273).
