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 17
2 p.m. Eric Gardner, author of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, $99, 9780197804490).
3:15 p.m. Paul Hutton, author of The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West (Dutton, $35, 9781524746131), at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, N.Mex.
4:16 p.m. Lorissa Rinehart, author of Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress (St. Martin's Press, $33, 9781250353047).
Sunday, January 18
8 a.m. Rick Atkinson, author of The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Crown, $42, 9780593799185). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:16 p.m.)
9 a.m. Tom Frieden, author of The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own (The MIT Press, $29.95, 9780262050968). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:16 p.m.)
11:50 a.m. Mary Roach, author of Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (W.W. Norton, $28.99, 9781324050629).
1 p.m. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature (Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118904).
2:05 p.m. Melanie Kaplan, author of Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research (Seal Press, $32, 9781541604988), at Wonderland Books in Bethesda, Md.
3 p.m. James Campbell, author of Heart of the Jaguar: The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the Americas' Legendary Cat (W.W. Norton, $35, 9780393867619), at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wis.
4 p.m. Stefan Fatsis, author of Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary (Atlantic Monthly Press, $30, 9780802165824), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
