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.
Sunday, July 6
8 a.m. Mark Skousen, author of The Greatest American: Benjamin Franklin, History's Most Versatile Genius (Republic Book Publishers, $29.99, 9781645721000). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
9 a.m. Ron Chernow, author of Mark Twain (Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
2 p.m. Joan C. Williams, author of Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250368966).
3:15 p.m. Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Basic Books, $32, 9781541619593).
4:25 p.m. Peniel E. Joseph, author of Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution (Basic Books, $34, 9781541675896), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5:40 p.m. Michael Walsh, author of A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History (St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250281364).
6:45 p.m. James Patterson and Bill Clinton, authors of The First Gentleman: A Thriller (Little, Brown, $32, 9780316565103).
