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 25
8 a.m. Eric Jay Dolin, author of The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail (Liveright, $27.99, 9781324096320).
10 a.m. Kerry Kennedy, author of Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy (HarperOne, $36, 9780063454958).
11 a.m. Fergus Bordewich, author of Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future (Knopf, $35, 9780593803363), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
1 to 6:40 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 Mississippi Book Festival, which took place during September in Jackson, Miss.
- 1 p.m. A discussion on the lives of writers with David Streitfeld, author of Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry; and Todd Goddard, author of Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer's Life.
- 1:55 p.m. A discussion on the Mississippi Delta, race, and religion with W. Ralph Eubanks, author of When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land; Eddie Glaude, author of America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries; and Robert P. Jones, author of Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy.
- 2:49 p.m. A discussion on second chances after prison with Stanley Andrisse, author of Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence.
- 3:49 p.m. A discussion on Mississippi politics from 1976 to 2026.
- 4:46 p.m. A discussion on the history of civil rights in Mississippi.
- 5:41 p.m. A discussion on art, activists, and the American Dream.
8:15 p.m. Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos, author and illustrator of We are the Wright Brothers (Rocky Pond Books, $16.99, 9798217005529).