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, June 6
4:15 p.m. Alan Pell Crawford, author of This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South (Knopf, $33, 9780593318508).
5:20 p.m. Zara Anishanslin, author of The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution (Harvard University Press, $32.95, 9780674290235).
Sunday, June 7
8 a.m. Keisha Lance Bottoms, author of The Rough Side of the Mountain: A Memoir (Mariner, $29.99, 9780063420083). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:20 p.m.)
9 a.m. Craig Fehrman, author of This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark (Avid Reader Press, $35, 9781982174248). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:20 p.m.)
10 a.m. Gayle Feldman, author of Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built (Random House, $40, 9781400060276). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:20 p.m.)
11 a.m. David Denby, author of Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer (Holt, $32, 9781250193407).
12:40 p.m. Adrian Wooldridge, author of The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism (Pegasus, $35, 9781639369379).
3 p.m. Megan Garber, author of Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency (HarperOne, $27.99, 9780063415690), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5:50 p.m. Andrew Fisher, author of Nathan Straus: From Macy's Magnate to International Humanitarian (Rutgers University Press, $34.95, 9781978843479).
