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, September 20
9:35 a.m. Bill Bleyer, author of The Roosevelts in New York City (The History Press, $24.99, 9781467150309). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:35 p.m.)
Sunday, September 21
8 a.m. Scott Anderson, author of King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Misty L. Heggeness, author of Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy (University of California Press, $26.95, 9780520403116). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
2 p.m. Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive? (W.W. Norton, $31.99, 9780393242133).
3:50 p.m. Shoshana Walter, author of Rehab: An American Scandal (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781982149826).
7 p.m. Yaakov Katz, author of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250345684).
