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, November 28
3 p.m. Robert M. Poole, author of Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home (Bloomsbury, $27, 9781620402931), during the Fall for the Book Festival at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m.)
5:03 p.m. Mark Tooley, author of The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War (Thomas Nelson, $26.99, 9780718022235), at Fall for the Book Festival. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:03 a.m.)
6:06 p.m. Angela Hudson, author of Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians (University of North Carolina Press, $29.95, 9781469624433), at Fall for the Book Festival. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:06 a.m.)
6:54 p.m. Cesar Brioso, author of Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League (University Press of Florida, $24.95, 9780813061160), at Fall for the Book Festival. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:54 a.m.)
10 p.m. Roberta Kaplan, author of Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA (Norton, $27.95, 9780393248678). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, November 29
7 p.m. Tom Gjelten, author of A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story (Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781476743851).
