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 21
5:55 p.m. Jonathan S. Jones, author of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis (The University of North Carolina Press, $39.95, 9781469689531).
Sunday, March 22
9:05 a.m. Cass R. Sunstein, author of Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times (The MIT Press, $24.95, 9780262051774), at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:09 p.m.)
11 a.m. Erik Larson discusses storytelling and narrative nonfiction with Susan Orlean at the New Orleans Book Festival. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:58 p.m.)
12:35 p.m. Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg, authors of Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better (Basic Books, $30, 9781541603783).
1:45 p.m. Michael Kimmel, author of Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America (W.W. Norton, $32.99, 9781324105282).
2:45 p.m. Laura Mauldin, author of In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America's Caregiving Crisis--How Chronic Illness and Systemic Failure Strain Intimate Partnerships (Ecco, $30, 9780063339132), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
3:50 p.m. Chris Enss, author of Daughters of Daring: Hollywood Cowgirl Stunt Women (Lyons Press, $35, 9781493087860).
6 p.m. Wil Haygood, author of The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home (Knopf, $35, 9780593537695).
