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, January 10
9:30 a.m. Sarah Miller, author of Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt's Heart (Random House Studio, $20.99, 9780593649091). (Re-airs Saturday at 10 p.m.)
Sunday, January 11
8 a.m. William Easterly, author of Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Rest (Basic Books, $34, 9781541675759). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:10 p.m.)
11:25 a.m. Thomas P. Slaughter, author of The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family (Three Hills, $37.95, 9781501782657). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:35 p.m.)
12:35 p.m. Jonathan Mahler, author of The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990 (Random House, $32, 9780525510635).
1:35 p.m. Arthur Sze delivers his inaugural reading as the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
2:35 p.m. Irin Carmon, author of Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America (Atria/One Signal, $30, 9781668032602), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
4:55 p.m. Beth Macy, author of Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America (Penguin Press, $32, 9780593656730), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5:55 p.m. Randi Weingarten, author of Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy (Thesis, $30, 9798217045419), at Politics and Prose.
