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, July 14
4:30 p.m. Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace, authors of The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life (Viking, $26, 9780525558811). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 a.m.)
7:30 p.m. Richard Rhodes, author of Energy: A Human History (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501105357), at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, Calif. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:50 a.m.)
8:45 p.m. Michael Eric Dyson, author of What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America (St. Martin's Press, $24.99, 9781250199416). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)
10 p.m. Amanda Carpenter, author of Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us (Broadside, $26.99, 9780062748003). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Anna-Lisa Cox, author of The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality (PublicAffairs, $28, 9781610398107), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
Sunday, July 15
12 a.m. Charlie LeDuff, author of Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing... and the Ratings Are Great (Penguin Press, $27, 9780525522027).
7:15 p.m. Eric Posner, author of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691177502).
10 p.m. Seymour Hersh, author of Reporter: A Memoir (Knopf, $27.95, 9780307263957).
11:45 p.m. A preview of upcoming Fall titles from PublicAffairs and Da Capo Press.
