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 30
12 p.m. Coverage from the 18th annual Harlem Book Fair in New York City, which took place on July 16. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
4:20 p.m. Stephen Budiansky, author of Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union (Knopf, $30, 9780385352666), at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
7:15 p.m. Governor John Hickenlooper, co-author of The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics (Penguin Press, $30, 9781101981672). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
8:45 p.m. Mychal Smith, author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education (Nation Books, $24, 9781568585284). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 a.m.)
10 p.m. Eric Fair, author of Consequence: A Memoir (Holt, $26, 9781627795135). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
Sunday, July 31
4:15 p.m. Shawn Otto, author of The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It (Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313539). (Re-airs Monday at 6 a.m.)
6:15 p.m. Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald and other staff members from the Intercept read from The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501144134). (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)
10 p.m. Nigel Hamilton, author of Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780544279117), at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass.
