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, April 12
9:30 a.m. Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration (Dutton, $35, 9780451489012).
10:27 a.m. Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (W.W. Norton, $21.99, 9780393354768).
11:20 a.m. Leonne M. Hudson, author of Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, $24.95, 9780809339549).
2 p.m. Jon Grinspan, author of Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Bloomsbury, $32, 9781639730643).
3 p.m. Nigel Hamilton, author of Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents (Little, Brown, $38, 9780316564632).
Sunday, April 13
9 a.m. Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater, authors of Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress (Random House, $32, 9780593731260), at the Strand in New York City. (Re-airs Sunday ay 9 p.m.)
2 p.m. Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope (Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9781954118683).
2:50 p.m. David A. Mindell, author of The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution (The MIT Press, $32.95, 9780262049528).
4:10 p.m. Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria/One Signal, $28.99, 9781668083505).
5:15 p.m. Meg Stone, author of The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence (Beacon Press, $26.95, 9780807016220).
6 p.m. Loretta J. Ross, author of Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel (Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781982190798).
7 p.m. Michael Wolff, author of All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America (Crown, $32, 9780593735381), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
