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, December 14
8 a.m. Piers Morgan, author of Woke Is Dead (HarperCollins, $32, 9780008555498). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:04 p.m.)
9:10 a.m. Matthew Davis, author of A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250285102), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:09 p.m.)
10:43 a.m. Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 9781324106234), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:41 p.m.)
11:52 a.m. Eileen Flanagan, author of Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation (Seven Stories Press, $21.95, 9781644214787).
1:55 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Book Festival. Highlights include:
- 1:55 p.m. Julia Ioffe, author of Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, and Fatemeh Jamalpour, co-author of For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising.
- 2:52 p.m. Jonathan D. Cohen, author of Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling, and Johnisha Matthews Levi, author of Number's Up: Cracking the Code of an American Family.
- 3:54 p.m. Tracie Canada, author of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, Giri Nathan, author of Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis, and S.L. Price, author of The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse.
- 4:57 p.m. Aymann Ismail, author of Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America, Steve Majors, author of Man Made: Searching for Dads, Daddies, Father Figures, and Fatherhood, and Michael Thomas, author of The Broken King.
- 5:57 p.m. Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs, and Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.