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, January 11
9:30 a.m. Heath Hardage Lee, author of The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington's Most Private First Lady (St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250274342). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
4:45 p.m. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, author of The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It (Basic Books, $35, 9781541603196).
Sunday, January 12
8:40 a.m. A discussion of If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose by Refaat Alareer (OR Books, $24.99, 9781682196212), who was killed in Gaza in December 2023. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:40 p.m.)
10 a.m. Adam Chandler, author of 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life (Pantheon, $28, 9780593700570). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Josh Cowen, author of The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers (Harvard Education Press, $34, 9781682539101), at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Ariz.
3:10 p.m. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, author of What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (One World, $34, 9780593229361).
4:30 p.m. Mark L. Clifford, author of The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic (Free Press, $28.99, 9781668027691).
5:25 p.m. Michael Mandelbaum, author of The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made (Oxford University Press, $34.99, 9780197782477).
6:40 p.m. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering (Little, Brown, $32, 9780316575805).
