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, April 11
2 p.m. Michael Vorenberg, author of Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War (Knopf, $35, 9781524733179).
2:55 p.m. Saladin Ambar, author of Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln (Diversion Books, $29.99, 9798895150214).
3:47 p.m. Akhil Reed Amar, author of Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920 (Basic Books, $40, 9781541605190).
Saturday, April 12
8 a.m. Kirk Ellis, author of They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws (High Road Books, $29.95, 9780826369376), at Interabang Books in Dallas, Tex. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:16 p.m.)
8:45 a.m. Sen. Cory Booker, author of Stand (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250436733). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
3:10 p.m. Jonathan Mann Burkham, author of Migrant Midwest: The Case for Immigration and Economic Growth in the American Heartland (Bloomsbury Academic, $36, 9798216276098), at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wis.
4:10 p.m. Mark Lee Gardner, author of Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone (Dutton, $35, 9780593471890).
5:10 p.m. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, author of It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668014479), at the New Orleans Book Festival.
5:57 p.m. Michael Pollan, author of A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness (Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991), at the New Orleans Book Festival.
7 p.m. Arthur C. Brooks, author of The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness (Portfolio, $30, 9780593545423).
