Copperfield's Books Weekend TV Guide to Books

courtesy of Shelf-Awareness

This Weekend on Book TV:
Where Men Win Glory

Book TV airs on C-Span 2 from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Tuesday 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.

Sunday, September 27 to Friday, October 2:

America's Greatest Idea: National Park Series with Ken Burns. Series Broadcasts 9/27 and runs each night until Friday, October 2. PBS-TV National (USA)

Saturday, September 19:

3 p.m. Tom Coffman, author of Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i, talks about the U.S. annexation of what would become our 50th state and resistance by the native population. (Re-airs Sunday at 4 a.m.)

8 p.m. Johan Norberg discusses his Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis. (Re-airs Sunday at 1 p.m. and Monday at 6 a.m.)

10 p.m. After Words. Sean Naylor interviews Jon Krakauer, author of Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. Krakauer recounts the life of a pro football player turned U.S. Army Ranger who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004. (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m., and Monday 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)

Sunday, September 20:

7 a.m. Haleh Esfandiari, author of My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran, chronicles her detention by the Iranian government beginning on New Year's Eve of 2006. (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)

6 p.m. Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor-in-chief of Twelve Books, discusses his work with the late Senator Ted Kennedy on True Compass: A Memoir on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)

7 p.m. Representative Ron Paul, author of End the Fed, argues that the Federal Reserve should be held accountable for the current economic crisis. (Re-airs Monday at 4 a.m.)