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, July 19
4 p.m. Claire Hoffman, author of Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32, 9780374601713).
Sunday, July 20
8 a.m. Isabel Allende, author of My Name Is Emilia del Valle: A Novel (Ballantine, $30, 9780593975091). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:05 a.m. Agustín Fuentes, author of Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary (Princeton University Press, $24.95, 9780691249414), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:05 p.m.)
10:18 a.m. John Tamny, author of Deficit Delusion: Why Everything Left, Right, and Supply-Side Tells You About the National Debt Is Wrong (Regnery, $32.99, 9781510784857).
2 p.m. Paul Hawken, author of Carbon: The Book of Life (Viking, $28, 9780525427445).
3:15 p.m. Quinn Slobodian, author of Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone Books, $29.95, 9781890951917), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
7:35 p.m. Martin Dugard, author of Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II (Dutton, $32, 9780593473245).
