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 13
3:50 p.m. Charles Fishman, author of One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781501106293), at Brazos Books in Houston, Tex. (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
5:30 p.m. Martha Saxton, author of The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780809097012). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
6:30 p.m. Holland Michel, author of Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780544972001).
8 p.m. Lisa Duggan, author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (University of California Press, $18.95, 9780520294776), at the Strand in New York City. (Re-airs Sunday at 2:45 p.m.)
9 p.m. Ralph Peters, author of Darkness at Chancellorsville: A Novel of Stonewall Jackson's Triumph and Tragedy (Forge Books, $29.99, 9780765381736).
10 p.m. Joy-Ann Reid, author of The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story (Morrow, $27.99, 9780062880109). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
11 p.m. Timothy Goeglin, co-author of American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation (Gateway Editions, $28.99, 9781621579113). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:45 p.m.)
Sunday, July 14
12 a.m. Jon Gertner, author of The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future (Random House, $28, 9780812996623).
7:15 p.m. Don Kulick, author of A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (Algonquin, $26.95, 9781616209049), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
8:15 p.m. Chris DeRose, author of Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America (Regnery History, $29.99, 9781621578055).
10 p.m. Ash Carter, author of Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon (Dutton, $30, 9781524743918).
