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, April 18
9:30 a.m. Matthew Pinsker, author of Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln (W.W. Norton, $39.99, 9780393240788). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:30 p.m.)
7:50 p.m. Jon Meacham, discusses American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Random House, $25, 9780812973464).
Sunday, April 19
8 a.m. Ty Seidule and Connor Williams, authors of A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases (St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250330284). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Shyam Sankar, co-author of Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III (Bombardier Books, $30, 9798895655160). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
11 a.m. Richard Baum, author of Inside America's Opioid Crisis: 12 Hard Lessons for Today’s Drug War (Bloomsbury Academic, $32.95, 9781538186411). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
1:40 p.m. Francis Gorman, author of Confronting Bad History: How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial (Gateway Park Publishing, $24, 9798218516420).
2:55 p.m. Molly Beer, author of Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution (W.W. Norton, $31.99, 9781324050216).
3:55 p.m. Daniel Rood, author of In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America (W.W. Norton, $35.99, 9781631498374).
4:55 p.m. Leslie Stainton, author of Scarlett: Slavery's Enduring Legacy in an American Family (Potomac Books, $32.95, 9781640126756).
5:50 p.m. Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong, author of Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature (W.W. Norton, $28.99, 9781324105480).
