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 21
11:30 a.m. Susanna Ashton, author of A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (The New Press, $28.99, 9781620978191), at Solid State Books in Washington, D.C.
12:25 p.m. Bob Frishman, author of Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803 (The American Philosophical Society Press, $60, 9781606180099).
2 p.m. An author discussion on the Battle of the Bulge during World War II with Anthony Tucker-Jones, author of Hitler's Winter: The German Battle of the Bulge, Gregory Fontenot, author of Loss and Redemption at St. Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge, and John C. McManus, author of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible, at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Sunday, December 22
8 a.m. Bill Clinton, author of Citizen: My Life After the White House (Knopf, $38, 9780525521440). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:20 a.m. Andy F. Puzder, author of A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims: The Ugly Truth about Stakeholder Capitalism (Encounter Books, $34.99, 9781641774154). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:20 p.m.)
10:15 a.m. The Before Columbus Foundation presents the 2024 American Book Awards, which recognize "outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community."
1:10 to 7:10 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tenn. Highlights include:
- 1:10 p.m. Mark R. Cheathem, author of Who Is James K. Polk?: The Presidential Election of 1844.
- 2:01 p.m. Andrew Smith, author of Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey.
- 2:55 p.m. Sayantani DasGupta, author of Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight and Barbara Jenkins, author of So Long as It's Wild: Standing Strong After My Famous Walk Across America.
- 3:46 p.m. Alice Driver, author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company.
- 4:35 p.m. Neesha Powell-Ingabire, author of Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia's Geechee Coast, and Andrew Ross, author of The Realms of Oblivion: An Excavation of the Davies Manor Historic Site's Omitted Stories.
- 5:27 p.m. Steven Hale, author of Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber, and Joseph B. Ingle, author of Too Close to the Flame: With the Condemned inside the Southern Killing Machine.
- 6:19 p.m. Corey J. Miles, author of Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South, and Julian Randall, author of The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit.
7:10 p.m. Dava Sobel, author of The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science (Atlantic Monthly Press, $30, 9780802163820), at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C.