Authors on the Air: Beck Is Back
by Staff, PW Daily for Booksellers -- Publishers Weekly, 3/9/2005
Martha Beck found her way to an appearance on Good Morning America yesterday to talk aboutLeaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith (Crown, $24.95; Random House Audio abridged cassette, $25, abridged CD, $27.50). Beck, who writes a monthly column for O: The Oprah Magazine, follows her bestselling spiritual memoir, Expecting Adam, with what PW called a "shocking accusation of sexual abuse and betrayal. The book is full of Beck's laugh-out-loud hyperbolic wit and exquisitely written insights, but it also has a hard, angry edge. She asserts that after returning to Utah in the early 1990s, she began to recall horrific memories of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father, well-known Mormon intellectual Hugh Nibley."
This morning on Good Morning America, Marcus Buckingham revealed The One Thing You Need to Know: . . . About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success (Free Press, $29.95; Simon & Schuster Audio abridged CD, $29.95). In his new book, the motivational speaker and author of the bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths shares what he believes is the secret to achieving success: stop doing the things you hate.
On the Today Show this morning, Milton Parker, the owner of one of New York's most famous eatery, dished out recipes and anecdotes from How to Feed Friends and Influence People: The Carnegie Deli . . . A Giant Sandwich, a Little Deli, a Huge Success (Wiley, $21.95).
Today on the Early Show, Elizabeth Warren, co-author of All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan (Free Press, $24.95; Simon & Schuster Audio abridged CD, $29.95), offered tips on getting out of debt and achieving financial stability.
Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Thomas Fenton is the bearer of Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All (ReganBooks, $25.95) PW had this to say about the retired CBS News correspondent's book: "What makes this discourse on the current state of broadcast news such a gripping read is not that it critiques the establishment--it's the specific nature of Fenton's complaint. The author, who's been reporting for CBS News for 34 years, accuses the industry not just of having a political bias, but of being supremely lazy and incompetent. Fenton shares his own opinions, but buttresses them with sharp interviews from the Big Three (Brokaw, Rather, Jennings) and elder statesman Cronkite, who, not surprisingly, is most forthcoming." Fenton appeared on the Diane Rehm Show yesterday.
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