Authors on the Air: Ukra’s Ultimate Tea Diet; Scieszka’s Smash! Crash!; McGinn’s House Lust
by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2008
Authors on today’s The View:
Tea expert Mark Ukra served up The Ultimate Tea Diet: How Tea Can Boost Your Metabolism, Shrink Your Appetite, and Kick-Start Remarkable Weight Loss (Collins, $24.99).
Bestseller Dr. Dean Ornish, author of The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health (Ballantine, $27; RH Audio abridged CD, $24.95).
Authors on The Bob Edwards Show:
Jon Scieszka, recently named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, whose latest is Smash! Crash! (S&S Children's, $16.99) the first in his Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series.
Newsweek correspondent Daniel McGinn catches House Lust: America's Obsession with Our Homes (Random House, $24.95; CD, $34.99). PW explained: “It is this ability to get inside the actual lives of the housing-obsessed rather than relying purely on statistics to prove his point that makes this book as enjoyable as an episode of Flip This House, another popular housing reality show that McGinn cites in a book that is, at heart, all 'about behavior, not economics.’”
Saturday on NBC’s Weekend Today, Stephen King discusses Duma Key (Scribner, $28; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $49.95). PW called it a “well-crafted tale of possession and redemption… those few who haven't read King should appreciate his ability to create fully realized characters and conjure horrors that are purely manmade.”
This weekend on BookTV:
Franklin Foer looks at Election 2008: A Voter's Guide (Yale Univ. Press, $12). PW wrote “This collection offers up a handy set of sketches for each 2008 presidential candidate from the two major parties. These brief, usually perceptive profiles prove handiest with lesser-known candidates, offering solid introductions with insights into larger political trends.”
Syndicated columnist L. Brent Bozell, author of Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, But Conservatives Will (Crown Forum, $25.95).
Veteran Washington Post political reporter Dana Milbank analyzes Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government (Doubleday, $26; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99). PW said “Milbank knows where the fossils are buried and offers a canny, entertaining field guide to the manners and misdeeds of the political species.”
David Frum, former speechwriter to President Bush, whose new book is Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (Doubleday, $26; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $29.99), which PW’s review said “takes a provocative, politically challenging stance. The book rebukes the president Frum once called the right man and sets a challenging new course of action for the GOP.”
Journalist and medical ethicist Harriet Washington, whose Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Harlem Moon, $15.95), is just out in paperback. PW starred its review, saying “Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on ‘scientific racism,’ the book, even at its most distressing, is compulsively readable… and paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex and the abuse of power.”
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Authors on the Air is compiled by Diane Patrick. To be included in the compilation, email DPatrickPW@aol.com
