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 28
6:15 p.m. Kostya Kennedy, author of The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250341372).
Sunday, March 1
8 a.m. Xi Van Fleet, author of Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat (Center Street, $32, 9781546009344). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Jon Ralston, author of The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982194413), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
11 a.m. Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Times Books, $26, 9780805082401). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
12 p.m. Patrick Dorinson, co-author of The Common Sense Cowboy's Guide to Life: Stories from the Old Guy at the End of the Bar (Humanix Books, $24.99, 9781630063351).
12:30 p.m. Emily Mendenhall, author of Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID (University of California Press, $28.95, 9780520421523), at at Politics and Prose.
1:20 p.m. John Sanbonmatsu, author of The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves (NYU Press, $30, 9781479825967).
2:20 p.m. Dr. Robert Wachter, author of A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future (Portfolio, $32, 9798217044245).
4:25 p.m. Heather Ann Thompson, author of Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, $35, 9780593702093), at Red Emma's Book Store in Baltimore, Md.
5:55 p.m. Jennifer Wright, author of Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power (Grand Central, $30, 9780306834608).
