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 21
2 p.m. Melissa R. Klapper, co-author of The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai (NYU Press, $32, 9781479831906).
4:10 p.m. Edward Dolnick, author of Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World (Scribner, $19.99, 9781982199623).
7 p.m. Martha Blanding, author of Groundbreaking Magic: A Black Woman’s Journey Through The Happiest Place on Earth (Disney Editions, $25.99, 9781368078030).
Sunday, June 22
8 a.m. José Andrés, co-author of Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs (Ecco, $26.99, 9780063436152). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:15 a.m. Daniel Samet, author of U.S. Defense Policy toward Israel: A Cold War History (Routledge, $54.99, 9781032982502). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:15 p.m.)
12:40 p.m. Judy Karofsky, author of DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice (New Village Press, $24, 9781613322673), at Lake City Books in Madison, Wis.
1:15 p.m. Corinna Lain, author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (NYU Press, $29.95, 9781479832965), at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
2:20 p.m. Vauhini Vara, author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age (Pantheon, $30, 9780593701522), at McNally Jackson Books in New York City.
5:05 p.m. Casey Burgat and Steve Israel, authors of We Hold These "Truths": How to Spot the Myths that Are Holding America Back (Authors Equity, $18, 9798893310184).
6 p.m. Russell Shorto, author of Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 9780393881165).
