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 13
6:20 p.m. David Hackett Fischer, author of African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals (Simon & Schuster, $40, 9781982145095). (Re-airs Sunday at 6:20 a.m.)
7:10 p.m. Jane Turner Censer, author of The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle (University of Virginia Press, $29.95, 9780813948195). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:10 a.m.)
Sunday, August 14
8 a.m. Jason Kander, author of Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD (Mariner, $28.99, 9780358658962). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
8:55 a.m. Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Doubleday, $30, 9780385548519). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:55 p.m.)
2 p.m. Blair Sadler, co-author of Pluck: Lessons We Learned for Improving Healthcare and the World (Silicon Valley Press, $29.99, 9781735873176).
3:30 p.m. Thomas Fisher, author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER (One World, $27, 9780593230671).
4:30 p.m. David McSwane, author of Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick (Atria/One Signal, $28, 9781982177744).
7 p.m. Malcolm Nance, author of They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency (St. Martin's Press, $29.99, 9781250279002).
