This Weekend on Book TV: Jill Abramson

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, February 16
6 p.m. Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine (Knopf, $25.95, 9780451493026), at Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tenn. (Re-airs Sunday at 11:05 p.m.)

6:50 p.m. Kathleen Day, author of Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street (Yale University Press, $35, 9780300223323).

8:20 p.m. Laurence Leamer, author of Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace (Flatiron, $27.99, 9781250177513), at Palm Beach Book Store in Palm Beach, Fla.

8:50 p.m. Helen Zia, author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution (Ballantine, $28, 9780345522320). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:50 p.m.)

10 p.m. Jill Abramson, author of Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501123207). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)

11 p.m. Howard Schultz, author of From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America (Random House, $28, 9780525509448). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)

Sunday, February 17
12 a.m. Tom Hansell, author of After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales (West Virginia University Press, $27.99, 9781946684554).

8 p.m. Michael Tomasky, author of If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved (Liveright, $27.95, 9781631494086).

10 p.m. Geoffrey R. Stone and Lee C. Bollinger, authors of The Free Speech Century (Oxford University Press, $21.95, 9780190841386).

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