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 31
4:05 p.m. Robin Bernstein, author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit (University of Chicago Press, $27.50, 9780226744230).
5:10 p.m. Christopher F. Minty, author of Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City (Cornell University Press, $59.95, 9781501769108).
Sunday, September 1
8 a.m. Jamie Stiehm, author of The War Within: What I Witnessed From Inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 (Creators Publishing, $12.99, 9781962693080). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
2 p.m. Steven Hale, author of Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber (Melville House, $28.99, 9781612199283).
3 p.m. Isaac Arnsdorf, author of Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy (Little, Brown, $30, 9780316497510).
4 p.m. Dana R. Fisher, author of Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action (Columbia University Press, $19.95, 9780231209304).
5:40 p.m. Alissa Quart, author of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (Ecco, $27.99, 9780062412256).
