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 29
2:05 p.m. Francis J. Gorman, author of Confronting Bad History: How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial (Gateway Park Publishing, $24, 9798218516420).
Sunday, August 30
8 a.m. Evaggelos Vallianatos, author of Earth on Fire: Brewing Plagues and Climate Chaos in Our Backyards (WSPC, $36, 9789819801510).
11 a.m. Annie Jacobsen, author of Biological War: A Scenario (Dutton, $33, 9798217046034), at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Fla. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:35 p.m.)
12:40 p.m. Geoffrey Cain, author of Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary (Portfolio, $35, 9780593716694).
1:50 p.m. Joanna Stern, author of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything (Harper, $32, 9780063446618).
2:50 p.m. Robert Wright, author of The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668061657), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5:47 p.m. Cory Doctorow, author of The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late (MCD, $18, 9780374621568).
