The PW Morning Report, June 17, 2008

By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 6/17/2008 5:50:00 AM

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Presidential Politics; Prickly Vidal; Tony Schwartz Dead; Marian Keyes and Domestic Violence; Danielle Steel on Homelessness; Mockingbird Voted Greatest; Duke Lacrosse Book to HBO; and Jackie Collins Keeps Writing

If You’d Read This Week’s PW Feature, "Want Political Truth? Buy a Book" You’d Already Know:
Michael Moore’s New Book Set for August Publication by Grand Central, reports AP

and Pro Obama Book Coming From Bush’s Biographer and Thomas Nelson, reports Politico

Prickly Gore Vidal Sits for a New York Times Q&A
Now 82, Vidal has lost none of his acerbic wit nor his mordant view of life

Tony Schwartz, Author and Inventor of LBJ’s "Daisy Ad," Dead at 84, reports New York Times
A master manipulator of the media, Schwartz was also author of The Responsive Chord and Media: The Second God

Irish Author Marian Keyes Takes on Domestic Violence, reports Reuters
This Charming Man, is her ninth novel: "I felt it was very important I treat this issue with enormous respect"

Danielle Steel Writes About Helping the Homeless for Newsweek
Compassion for the homeless grew out of the suicide of her son, Nick

To Kill A Mockingbird Voted Greatest Novel of All Time, reports Daily Telegraph
Harper Lee’s tome is followed by Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Duke Lacrosse Book to HBO, reports UPI
It’s Not About the Truth (Threshold) by Mike Pressler, former Duke lacrosse coach., and veteran sportswriter Don Yaeger, grew out of a journal Pressler kept during the period of time three players were accused of gang-raping a stripper. Charges were later dropped

Jackie Collins Still Pumping Them Out 40 Years Later, reports Reuters
Her 26th novel, Married Lovers, has just been released by St. Martin's