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, February 22
8 a.m. Jason Zengerle, author of Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind (Crooked Media Reads, $28, 9781638932932), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:30 p.m.)
9 a.m. Gabriel Sherman, author of Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family--and the World (Simon & Schuster, $29, 9781982167417), at Politics and Prose. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:30 p.m.)
10 a.m. Peniel Joseph, author of Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution (Basic Books, $34, 9781541675896). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:30 p.m.)
11 a.m. Dr. Ashely Alker, author of 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250359643), at Politics and Prose.
11:50 a.m. Trevor Reed, author of Retribution: A Former US Marine's Harrowing Journey from Wrongful Imprisonment in Russia to the Front Lines of the Ukrainian War (Morrow, $30, 9780063428546).
1:30 p.m. Alex Pentland, author of Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI (The MIT Press, $27.95, 9780262050999)
2:40 p.m. Jacob Soboroff, author of Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster (Mariner, $30, 9780063467965).
3:55 p.m. Beronda L. Montgomery, author of When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy (Holt, $27.99, 9781250335166), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
4:55 p.m. Awarding of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for "outstanding non-fiction books on the subject of slavery and abolition" to Justene Hill Edwards, author of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 9781324073857).
