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, September 19
9:20 a.m. Nancy Beck Young, author of Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady (University Press of Kansas, $29.99, 9780700622771). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:20 p.m.)
12 p.m. Scott Reich, author of One Day in September: Baseball, Brotherhood, and the Birth of the All-Star Game (Compass Rose Publishing, $32.50, 9798994195888).
Sunday, September 20
8 a.m. Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America (W.W. Norton, $33.25, 9781324074441), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
9 a.m. Luke Burgis, author of The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion (St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250373038), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
12:28 p.m. Jonathan Weber, author of City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco (Atria, $32, 9781668074916).
2:40 p.m. Julian Hattem, author of Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration (The New Press, $29.99, 9781620978474), at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids, Mich.
3:23 p.m. Thomas Levenson, author of A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines (Random House, $28, 9798217155002), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
5 p.m. Melvin Patrick Ely, author of A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South (Holt, $31.99, 9781250381118).
