Authors on the Air: Brooke Shields; Dick Morris; The Family
by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2008
Authors on this morning’s Today show:
Actress and mother Brooke Shields, whose Welcome to Your World, Baby (HarperCollins, $16.99) pubs today.
Political commentator Dick Morris, co-author of Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Government Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It (HarperCollins, $26.95).
Diane Rehm interviewed religion and journalism scholar Jeff Sharlet, whose book is The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (HarperCollins, $25.95). From PW’s review: “In the years since his first encounter, Sharlet has done extensive research, and his thorough account of the Family's life and times is a chilling expose.”
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Nicholas Dawidoff insisted The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball (Pantheon, $24.95), which PW’s starred review said “brilliantly takes the reader through his journey of childhood struggles in this moving memoir. It's the Red Sox — baseball's then longtime losers — that provide Dawidoff the most happiness, because of the parallels he draws with his own life.”
Variety editor Dade Hayes scheduled Anytime Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom, Or, How Television Became My Baby's Best Friend (Free Press, $25). PW explained “Hayes doggedly follows the paths of such heavy hitters as Dora the Explorer and Blues Clues, dissecting their appeal and pondering the merits of TV for the very young even while continuing to let his daughter tune in.”
Foreign policy analyst Derek Chollet and political science professor James Goldgeier, authors of America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berling Wall and the Start of the War on Terror (PublicAffairs, $26.95).
On The Bob Edwards Show, historian Thurston Clarke recalled The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (Holt, $25; HighBridge unabridged CD, $34.95).
Tonight, Tavis Smiley meets with journalist Peter Gosselin, author of High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families (Basic Books, $26.95).
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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