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 26
12:40 to 5:40 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 Roosevelt Reading Festival at the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., which took place on July 21. Highlights include:
- 12:40 p.m. Jason Taylor, author of The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression (Macmillan, $32.99, 9783031731327).
- 1:25 p.m. Karen A. Frenkel, author of Family Treasures Lost & Found (Post Hill Press, $22.99, 9798888459560).
- 2:08 p.m. Christopher O'Sullivan, author of Frank Knox: Roughrider in FDR's War Cabinet (Macmillan, $169.99, 9783031336492).
- 2:58 p.m. David Kohnen, author of King's Navy: Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and the Rise of American Sea Power, 1897-1947 (Schiffer Military History, $49.99, 9780764368370).
- 3:46 p.m. Jeffrey P. Rogg, author of The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence (Oxford University Press, $39.99, 9780197678732).
- 4:39 p.m. Richard Breitman, author of A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, $35, 9780674293649).
Sunday, July 27
3:30 p.m. Chris Hughes, author of Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy (Avid Reader Press/S&S, $30, 9781668050170), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
4:35 p.m. Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discusses her career, her firing, and the future of American libraries at the American Librarian Association's annual conference in Philadelphia.