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, October 11
9:35 a.m. Kate Storey, author of White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port (Scribner, $30, 9781982159184). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:35 p.m.)
2 p.m. Calvin Schermerhorn, author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (Yale University Press, $30, 9780300258950).
2:50 p.m. Justene Hill Edwards, author of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W.W. Norton, $19.99, 9781324123484).
Sunday, October 12
8 a.m. Tom Johnson, author of Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN (University of Georgia Press, $34.95, 9780820374536), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
12:10 p.m. Cass R. Sunstein, author of On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom (The MIT Press, $29.95, 9780262049771), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
1:30 to 8 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss., which took place in September.
