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 6
3:20 p.m. Abbott Kahler, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America (Crown, $18, 9780451498632).
4:20 p.m. Garrett M. Graff, author of When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day (Avid Reader Press, $32.50, 9781668027813).
5:35 p.m. Erik Larson, author of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Crown, $35, 9780385348744).
Sunday, July 7
8 a.m. Adam Higginbotham, author of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Avid Reader Press, $35, 9781982176617). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
8:50 a.m. Chris Dixon, author of Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (Random House, $31, 9780593731383). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:50 p.m.)
2 p.m. Sasha Issenberg, author of The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age (Columbia Global Reports, $17.49, 9798987053621), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
3:25 p.m. Yashica Dutt, author of Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System (Beacon Press, $29.95, 9780807045282), at Pilsen Community Books in Chicago.
4:45 p.m. Gretchen Sisson, author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250286772).
5:50 p.m. Sergey Radchenko, author of To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power (Cambridge University Press, $34.95, 9781108477352).
7:30 p.m. Meg Medina, author and current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature at the Library of Congress, discusses efforts to reach and connect with young readers.