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, June 20
2 p.m. Tom Zoellner, author of The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War (The New Press, $34.99, 9798893850086).
Sunday, June 21
9:10 a.m. Matthew Mehan, author of The American Book of Fables (Sophia Institute Press, $39.95, 9798889116912).
11:35 a.m. Virginia Richards, author of The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway (The MIT Press, $39.95, 9780262051712), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
12:30 p.m. Brooke N. Newman, author of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas (Mariner Books, $32.50, 9780063290976).
1:35 p.m. April Ryan, author of Black Women Will Save the World; Mary Frances Berry, author of Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present; Keith Boykin, author of Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away; and Michael Eric Dyson, author of Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote, at Politics & Prose.
2:55 p.m. Kimberlé Crenshaw, author Backtalker: An American Memoir (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982181000).
