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.
Sunday, November 30
8 a.m. Susan Orlean, author of Joyride: A Memoir (Avid Reader Press, $32, 9781982135164), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
9:05 a.m. Anthony Kennedy, author of Life, Law & Liberty: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668052747). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:47 p.m.)
1:30 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 History Book Festival in Lewes, Del. Highlights include:
- 1:30 p.m. Andrew Lyter, author of Going Among English Sailors: American Tars Aboard HMS Belvidera.
- 2:20 p.m. Joseph Lee, author of Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity.
- 3:07 p.m. Saladin Ambar, author of Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln.
- 4:05 p.m. Steven Schwankert, author of The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors.
- 4:55 p.m. Michelle Young, author of The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of World War II Resistance Hero Rose Valland.
- 5:50 p.m. Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill, editors of History Matters by David McCullough.