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 23
3:45 p.m. Michelle Craig McDonald, author of Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, $45, 9781512827552).
Sunday, August 24
9 a.m. Sarah Allaback and Monique F. Parsons, authors of Green Gold: The Avocado's Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation (Counterpoint, $29, 9781640096769), at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Calif. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10:35 a.m. Jill Dougherty, author of My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin (Lyons Press, $32.95, 9781493087983), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:35 p.m.)
1:40 p.m. Kate Woodworth, author of Little Great Island: A Novel (Sibylline Press, $21, 9781960573902), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
2:35 p.m. Andre M. Perry, author of Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It (Metropolitan Books, $27.99, 9781250869715).
3:40 p.m. Rachel Laryea, author of Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible (Crown, $30, 9780593735046).
4:40 p.m. Gabe Henry, author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell (Dey Street, $28, 9780063360211).
7 p.m. Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto (Atlantic Books, $17.99, 9781838957926), delivers the Hayek Prize lecture.