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 27
2 p.m. Jack Dempsey, editor of When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed: A Michigan Woman's Civil War Journal (University of Georgia Press, $24.95, 9780820365602).
5:15 p.m. Richard Brookhiser, author of Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution (Yale University Press, $30, 9780300259704).
Sunday, July 28
8 a.m. Stuart Eizenstat, author of The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World (Rowman & Littlefield, $35, 9781538167991). (Re-airs Sunday 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Kenneth McKenzie, author of The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century (Naval Institute Press, $34.95, 9781682474495). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Peter S. Goodman, author of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain (Mariner, $30, 9780063257924). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Dan Barry, editor of Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings (Library of America, $40, 9781598537680).
3 p.m. Damon Tweedy, author of Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250284891).
4 p.m. Ismar Volić, author of Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation (Princeton University Press, $32, 9780691248806), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
5:05 p.m. Martin Dugard, author of Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization (Dutton, $32, 9780593473214).
