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, March 28
9:30 a.m. Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, author of The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History (Harvard University Press, $22.95, 9780674303201). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
2 p.m. Tim McGrath, author of Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation (Dutton Caliber, $39, 9780593184394).
4:15 p.m. Sylvester Allen, Jr., and Belle Boggs, authors of The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter (The University of North Carolina Press, $30, 9781469689999).
6:35 p.m. Bob Crawford, author of America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick (Zando, $28, 9781638932604).
Sunday, March 29
9 a.m. Oliver James, author of Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok (Union Square & Co., $28, 9781454959403), at Copperfield's Books in Petaluma, Calif. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:16 p.m.)
10 a.m. Nicholas Boggs, author of Baldwin: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:10 p.m.)
11 a.m. Andrew S. Curran, author of Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson (Other Press, $39.99, 9781635422245), at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 11:08 p.m.)
1:10 p.m. Khameer Kidia, author of Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone (Crown, $32, 9780593594285), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5:40 p.m. Gavin Newsom, author of Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery (Penguin Press, $30, 9781984881939).
