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, September 5
9:30 a.m. Jack Cheevers, author of Kennedy's Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America's Descent into Vietnam (Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668082409). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
7:30 p.m. Amity Shlaes, author of Coolidge: A Political Biography of Presidential Leadership, Service, and How One President Rebuilt America's Trust in Government (Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780061967597). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:30 a.m.)
Sunday, September 6
8 a.m. Darby Saxbe, author of Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives (Flatiron, $29.99, 9781250387523), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
9 a.m. Dr. Mary Fariba Afsari, author of Labor: One Woman's Work (Avid Reader Press, $28.99, 9781668015407), at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Mass.
11 a.m. Pauline Steinhorn, author of Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter’s Fight for Survival during the Holocaust (Amsterdam Publishers, $17.95, 9789493418844), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:40 p.m.)
5:55 p.m. Theo Baker, author of How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University (Penguin Press, $32, 9780593832837).
