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, October 4
8 a.m. Ken Buck, author of Wake Up America!: The Rise of Socialism Is the Death of Freedom (Humanix Books, $29.99, 9781630063399). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:30 p.m.)
9 a.m. Annie Jacobsen, author of Biological War: A Scenario (Dutton, $33, 9798217046034), at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Fla.
10 a.m. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, author of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground (W.W. Norton, $32.99, 9781324089315).
11 a.m. Pria Anand, author of The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains (Washington Square Press, $19, 9781668064023).
12:09 p.m. James M. Tabor, author of Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age (W.W. Norton, $31.99, 9781324036029).
1 p.m. Eric Ries, author of Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great (Authors Equity, $32, 9798893311860).
3:10 p.m. Jon Else, author of Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs (Belknap Press, $29.95, 9780674300354).
4:15 p.m. Michael Mandelbaum, author of The American Way of Foreign Policy: Ideology, Economics, Democracy (Oxford University Press, $29.99, 9780197840931).
6 p.m. Tom Allon, editor of Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt (Abrams, $30, 9781419790980).
