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, February 7
8 a.m. Marion Orr, author of House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (The University of North Carolina Press, $28.99, 9781469689326). (Re-airs Saturday at 8 p.m.)
9:30 a.m. Bret Baier, author of To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower (Mariner, $32.99, 9780063360754). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
2 p.m. John Carter Cash discusses The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting (Voracious, $60, 9780316503549).
Sunday, February 8
8 a.m. Eve M. Kahn, author of Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris (Empire State Editions, $34.95, 9781531511678). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:20 p.m.)
11 a.m. Max Perry Mueller, author of Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West (Basic Books, $35, 9781541602595), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
12:05 p.m. Bruce Schneier, co-author of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship (The MIT Press, $22.95, 9780262057332).
1:05 p.m. Sam Kass, author of The Last Supper: How to Overcome the Coming Food Crisis (Crown, $30, 9780451494962), at Bold Fork Books in Washington, D.C.
2:10 p.m. Chuck Collins, author of Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet (The New Press, $27.99, 9781620979099), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
4:10 p.m. Andrea Nolen, author of Lincoln's Counterfeiters: The Wisconsin Gang that Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob (The History Press, $24.99, 9781467157087), at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wis.
6:10 p.m. Brad Meltzer, author of The Viper (Morrow, $32, 9780062892430).
