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, August 1
11:43 a.m. Jesse Wegman, author of The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution (Celadon Books, $30, 9781250851079).
2:03 p.m. Paul Quigley, author of The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War (Oxford University Press, $34.99, 9780197667262).
5:45 p.m. Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons, authors of The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story (University of Arizona Press, $21.95, 9780816556168), at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, N.Mex.
Sunday, August 2
8 a.m. Ben Rhodes, author of All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches (Random House, $35, 9780593595121), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:05 p.m.)
12 p.m. Michael Clinton, author of Longevity Nation: The People, Ideas, and Trends Changing the Second Half of Our Lives (Atria/Beyond Words, $29, 9781582709628).
1 p.m. Stephanie Green, author of American Crown: From Revolutionaries to Royalty: The Story of Prince William's American Heritage (Pegasus, $29.95, 9798897101054).
1:50 p.m. Steve Phillips, author of Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else?: Playing Offense in the Fight for Racial Justice in America (The New Press, $28.99, 9798893850215).
2:50 p.m. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, author of Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance (NYU Press, $35, 9781479838288).
4 p.m. Bruce Nichols, author of The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World (Avid Reader Press, $32, 9781668094877), at Book Shop of Beverly Farms in Beverly, Mass.
4:40 p.m. Naomi Kanakia, author of What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) (Princeton University Press, $25.95, 9780691251929).
6 p.m. Barbara McQuade, author of The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government (Seven Stories Press, $35, 9781644215555).
