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, December 14
6:40 p.m. Shirley L. Green, author of Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence (Westholme Publishing, $35, 9781594164064). (Re-airs Sunday at 6:40 a.m.)
Sunday, December 15
8 a.m. Peggy Noonan, author of A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings (Portfolio, $31, 9780593854778). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Tucker Perkins, author of Path to Zero: 12 Climate Conversations That Changed the World (Worth, $26, 9781637633083). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. James Rickards, author of MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy (Portfolio, $29, 9780593718636). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tenn. Highlights include:
- 11 a.m. Richard Panek, author of Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos.
- 11:49 a.m. A discussion on racial conflict and justice with Betsy Phillps, author of Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control, and Aran Shetterly, author of Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul.
- 12:39 p.m. A discussion on guns and gun safety with Andrew C. McKevitt, author of Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, and Jonathan M. Metzl, author of What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.
- 1:31 p.m. Brenda Wineapple, author of Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation.
- 2:21 p.m. David Greenberg, author of John Lewis: A Life.
- 3:12 p.m. Crystal Wilkinson, author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks.
- 4:56 p.m. Caitlin Cass, author of Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S.
- 5:40 p.m. Jared Sullivan, author of Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe.
6:45 p.m. David Rohde, author of Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 9780393881967).