This Weekend on Book TV: Al Roker

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, August 29
4:45 p.m. Star Parker, author of Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America (Sumner Books, $15.99, 9781939104137). (Re-airs Saturday at 6 p.m., Sunday at 11:15 a.m. and Monday at 2:25 a.m.)

6:30 p.m. Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, author of America's Great Storm: Leading through Hurricane Katrina (University Press of Mississippi, $25, 9781496805065), at Lemuria Bookstore in Jackson, Miss. (Re-airs Sunday at 2:45 p.m.)

7:30 p.m. Ronnie Greene, author of Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina (Beacon Press, $24.95, 9780807033500), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 3:45 p.m.)

10 p.m. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594206528). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)

11 p.m. Al Roker, author of The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900 (Morrow, $27.99, 9780062364654). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:30 a.m.)

11:30 p.m. Robert Service, author of The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 (PublicAffairs, $35, 9781610394994). (Re-airs Sunday at 5:30 p.m.)


Sunday, August 30
1 p.m. Deborah Tuerkheimer, author of Flawed Convictions: "Shaken Baby Syndrome" and the Inertia of Injustice (Oxford University Press, $19.95, 9780190233617). (Re-airs Monday at 1 a.m.)

7:45 p.m. Geoff Shepard, author of The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down (Regnery History, $29.99, 9781621573289).

10 p.m. Susan Pedersen, author of The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press, $34.95, 9780199730032).

11 p.m. Peter Kiernan, author of American Mojo: Lost and Found: Restoring our Middle Class Before the World Blows By (Turner, $34.95, 9781630269234).

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