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.

Saturday, May 3

6 p.m. Encore Book Notes. For a segment first aired in 2003, Mona Charen talked about her book, Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (Harper, $13.95, 9780060579418/0060579412).
 
7 p.m. At an event at Hattie's Books, Brunswick, Ga., Bob Dart, author of Down Home: Dispatches from Dixie (Southern Lion Books, $30, 9780979420337/0979420334), discussed his collection of stories about Southern culture, society and politics. (Re-airs Sunday at 2:30 a.m. and Saturday, May 17, at 11 a.m.)
 
10 p.m. After Words. Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist Clarence Page interviews Bruce Bartlett, author of Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past (Palgrave Macmillan, $26.95, 9780230600621/023060062X). (Re-airs Sunday 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday at 3 a.m. and Sunday, May 11, at 12 p.m.)

Sunday, May 4

8:30 a.m. Lincoln Chafee, author of Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President (Thomas Dunne, $24.95, 9780312383046/0312383045), draws upon his experience as the Republican senator from Rhode Island from 1999 to 2007. (Re-airs Sunday at 5 p.m. and Monday at 6 a.m.)
     
9:30 a.m. David Horowitz, author of Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America's War on Terror Before and After 9-11 (Spence Publishing, $22.95, 9781890626747/1890626740), criticizes Democrats he believes are undermining U.S. efforts in Iraq. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)

12 p.m. In Depth. Alice Walker, author of more than 25 books, joins BookTV for a live interview from her home in Berkeley, Calif. Viewers can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program or e-mailing questions to booktv@c-span.org. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m. and Saturday, May 10, at 9 a.m.)

10 p.m. A discussion about writing with authors Stephen, Tabitha and Owen King, who read from their latest works and take questions from students during an event sponsored by PEN/Faulkner's "Writers in Schools" program and the Center for the Book. (Re-airs Saturday, May 17, at 8 a.m.)