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, May 16
3:05 p.m. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War (W.W. Norton, $38.99, 9780393541090), at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Sunday, May 17
8 a.m. Eyck Freymann, author of Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China (Oxford University Press, $29.99, 9780197823842). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:25 p.m.)
9 a.m. Gal Beckerman, author of How to Be a Dissident (Crown, $19, 9798217089215), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:25 p.m.)
11 a.m. Richard Carwardine, author of Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Knopf, $35, 9781400044573) receives the 2026 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
12 p.m. Emilie Connolly, author of Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (Princeton University Press, $35, 9780691240121), and Beth Lew-Williams, author of John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law (Belknap Press, $35, 9780674294110) receive the 2026 Bancroft Prize for History at Columbia University.
2:46 p.m. Julian Zelizer, editor of The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, $29.95, 9780691274799).
3:45 p.m. Cindy Cohn, author of Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (The MIT Press, $29.95, 9780262051248), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
4:55 p.m. Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, author of The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America's Lawsuit Factory (Atria/One Signal, $30, 9781668068861).
5:45 p.m. Andrés Martinez, author of The Great Game: A Tale of Two Footballs and America's Quest to Conquer Global Sport (Bloomsbury Academic, $32, 9798881801823).
