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, August 2
2 p.m. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, co-author of A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War (Princeton University Press, $19.95, 9780691181097).
Sunday, August 3
8 a.m. Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux, authors of The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, $29.95, 9798881808365). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf, authors of 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America (Penguin Press, $32, 9780593832530). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
1:40 p.m. Carl Zimmer, author of Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe (Dutton, $32, 9780593473597).
4:35 p.m. Karida L. Brown, author of The Battle for the Black Mind (Legacy Lit, $30, 9781538768433), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
6:40 p.m. Christopher Scalia, author of 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read) (Regnery, $32.99, 9781510782396).
