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 19
9:30 a.m. Jay Hakes, author of The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush (LSU Press, $39.95, 9780807181904). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
3:30 p.m. Ana Minian, author of In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States (Viking, $32, 9780593654255), and Hidetaka Hirota, author of Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy (Oxford University Press, $36.99, 9780190055561).
4:45 p.m. George F. Will, author of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780061999819), and Kevin Baker, author of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City (Knopf, $35, 9780375421839).
Sunday, April 20
8 a.m. Elie Mystal, author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (The New Press, $26.99, 9781620978580), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Eric Schmidt, co-author of Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit (Little, Brown, $30, 9780316581295). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (Belknap Press, $26.95, 9780674298170). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Riley Black, author of When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250288998).
3 p.m. Bernadette Atuahene, author of Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (Little, Brown, $32.50, 9780316572217).
4:20 p.m. Daniel Stone, author of American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice (Dutton, $32, 9780593473627).
5:12 p.m. John Green, author of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059).
6:28 p.m. Meenakshi Ahamed, author of Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America (HarperCollins India, $40, 9789365692402).
7:30 p.m. Katie Mitchell, author of Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (Clarkson Potter, $26.99, 9780593581346).
