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.
Sunday, June 28
8 a.m. Roy K. Altman, author of Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law (Advantage Books, $32, 9798891886360). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:15 p.m.)
9:40 a.m. Robin Andersen, author of The Complicit Lens: U.S. Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (OR Books, $22.95, 9781682196267). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:50 p.m.)
1:25 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Md., which took place on May 16. Highlights include:
- 1:25 p.m. Stefan Merrill Block, author of Homeschooled: A Memoir.
- 2:10 p.m. Aaron C. Davis, co-author of Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department.
- 2:57 p.m. Reyna Grande, author of Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can't Forget.
- 3:43 p.m. Peter Cozzens, author of Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West, and Megan Kate Nelson, author of The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier.
- 4:31 p.m. Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, author of Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free.
- 5:16 p.m. Susan Page, author of The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History.
- 6:05 p.m. Lois Romano, author of An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln.