This Weekend on Book TV: The New Orleans Book Festival and the Tucson Festival of Books

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, March 14
8 a.m. John Bachman, co-author of Turning Point: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War (Humanix Books, $34.99, 9781630062880). (Re-airs Saturday at 8 p.m.)

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. (Re-airs Saturday at 10 p.m.)

6 p.m. Marc James Carpenter, author of The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest (Yale University Press, $38, 9780300275735).

7 p.m. Danny Funt, author of Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling (Gallery Books, $30, 9781668062029).

Sunday, March 15
8 a.m. Jason G. Green, author of Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility (One World, $30, 9780593731710), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:05 p.m.)

11:35 a.m. Co-author Emily Yellin and son John Lawson discuss Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love by Rev. James Lawson Jr. (Random House, $36, 9780593596241).

1 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books at the University of Arizona.

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