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 25
9:30 a.m. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, author of Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic (Oxford University Press, $34.99, 9780197653845). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
11 a.m. Cecilia Márquez, author of Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (The University of North Carolina Press, $27.95, 9781469676050). (Re-airs Saturday at 11 p.m.)
3:35 p.m. Alex Beringer, author of Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip (Ohio State University Press, $36.95, 9780814258965).
Sunday, January 26
8:45 a.m. Helena Cobban and Rami Khouri, authors of Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters (OR Books, $19.95, 9781682196342). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:45 p.m.)
2 p.m. Peter Phillips, author of Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity (Seven Stories Press, $18.95, 9781644214336), at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Calif.
4 p.m. Gary Marcus, author of Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us (The MIT Press, $18.95, 9780262551069).
5:10 p.m. Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, authors of Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future (The New Press, $27.99, 9781620978740).
7:30 p.m. Publishing industry analyst Brenna Connor discusses sales trends and bestsellers for 2024.
