Book TV

Book TV airs on C-Span 2 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.

 


By John Yoo
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9781607145554
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Kaplan Publishing, 12/01/2009
Book TV Featured Programs

After Words: John Yoo, Crisis and Command interviewed by Victoria Toensing

John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (2001-2003), talks about his book Crisis and Command, which looks at the history of executive power going back to President George Washington.

Prof. Yoo discusses his book with Victoria Toensing, former assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division (1984-1988) and founding partner at diGenova & Toensing, LLP.

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By Shoshana Johnson, M. L Doyle
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9781416567486
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Touchstone, 02/01/2010
Saturday, February 27th

8:00 a.m. Shoshana Johnson, author of I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home , served with the U.S. Army from 1998 to 2003 and was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals.

(Re-airs Saturday at 11 p.m. and Monday at 4 a.m.)


By Michael Wolff
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780385526128
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Broadway, 12/01/2008

Saturday, February 27th

5:00 p.m. For an event hosted by the Strand Bookstore in New York City, James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, and Michael Wolff, author of The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, discuss their biographical subjects

(Re-airs Sunday at 7:30 p.m.)


By Jonathan R. Cole
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9781586484088
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: PublicAffairs, 01/01/2010

Saturday, February 27th

10:45 a.m. Former provost at Columbia University Jonathan Cole talks about his book The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence Its Indispensable National Role Why It Must be Protected

(Re-airs Sunday at 7 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.)


By James Mcgrath Morris
$29.99
ISBN-13: 9780060798697
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper, 02/01/2010

Saturday, February 27th

5:00 p.m. For an event hosted by the Strand Bookstore in New York City, James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, and Michael Wolff, author of The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, discuss their biographical subjects

(Re-airs Sunday at 7:30 p.m.)


By George Orwell, George Packer, Keith Gessen
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780156033077
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mariner Books, 10/01/2009

Saturday, February 27th

10:00 p.m. After Words. Christopher Hitchens interviews George Packer, editor of George Orwell's Facing Unpleasant Facts and All Art Is Propaganda

(Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)


By John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt
$27.99
ISBN-13: 9780061859441
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperBusiness, 01/01/2010

Saturday, February 27th

8:30 p.m. Doris Naisbitt and John Naisbitt, co-authors of China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society , talk about the future of China and its impact on us.

(Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m.)


By George Orwell, George Packer
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780156033138
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mariner Books, 10/01/2009

Saturday, February 27th

10:00 p.m. After Words. Christopher Hitchens interviews George Packer, editor of George Orwell's Facing Unpleasant Facts and All Art Is Propaganda

(Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)


By Jon Jeter, Robert Pierre
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780470520666
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Wiley, 12/01/2009

Sunday, February 28th

3:30 a.m. Co-authors Jon Jeter and Robert Pierre discuss their book, A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America

(Re-airs Sunday at 9:30 a.m)


By Kathryn Allamong Jacob
$40.00
ISBN-13: 9780801893971
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press, 12/01/2009
Sunday, February 28th

5:00 a.m.. Kathryn Jacob, author of King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward--Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age, recalls Washington's most powerful lobbyist during the mid-19th century

(Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)


By Jesse J. Holland
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780762745364
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Globe Pequot Press, 09/01/2007

Sunday, February 28th

6:00 a.m. Jesse Holland, author of Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C., presents a history of the slave labor used to complete the construction of the U.S. Capitol and White House

(Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)