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, April 5
8 a.m. Anand Gopal, author of Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution (Simon & Schuster, $33, 9781668062173). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:30 p.m.)
11:50 a.m. D. Graham Burnett, Alyssa Loh, and Peter Schmidt, authors of Attensity!: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement (Crown, $30, 9798217086153).
2:38 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books, which took place in March at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz.
- 2:28 p.m. A discussion on investigative reporting with Jonathan Karl, author of Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America, Carol Leonnig, author of Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department, and Jacob Soboroff, author of Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster.
- 3:32 p.m. A discussion on the Middle East with Loubna Mrie, author of Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria, Mimi Nichter, author of Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience, and Daniel Zoughbie, author of Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump.
- 5:06 p.m. A discussion on the American Revolution with Kostya Kennedy, author of The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America, Edward Larson, author of Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters, and Jonathan Turley, author of Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.
- 6:01 p.m. A discussion on misinformation and society with David Blumenthal, author of Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science, John Fugelsang, author of Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds, and Christopher Mathias, author of To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right.