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, July 19
8:45 a.m. C.L. Max Nikias, author of American Trojan: Leadership, Resilience, and the Renewal of Higher Education (Encounter Books, $39.99, 9781641774932). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
11:45 a.m. David Silverman, author of The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States (Bloomsbury, $35.99, 9781635578386), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
12:20 p.m. Michael Edison Hayden, author Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town (Bold Type Books, $30, 9781645030607).
1:25 to 4:20 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 Gold Coast Book Festival in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
- 1:25 p.m. A discussion on free speech and book bans with Christopher M. Finan, author of Freedom of Speech: A People's History of Democracy's Most Essential Right, Colleen Jaurretche, author of Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake, and David Levithan, co-author of The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America.
- 2:25 p.m. A discussion on the environment and climate change with Trent Preszler, author of Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America, Neil Shea, author of Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic, and Mike Tidwell, author The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street.
- 3:25 p.m. A discussion on threats to American democracy with Marc J. Dunkelman, author of Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--and How to Bring It Back, Timothy J. Heaphy, author of We Are the Answer: How to Save Our Democracy, and Clay Risen, author of Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.
4:20 p.m. Kathleen Duval, author of Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (Random House Trade Paperbacks, $22, 9780812981209).