Authors on the Air: Tearing Down the Gates; Shoot the Widow; Helping ADHD Adults

Compiled by Diane Patrick, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 6/28/2007

Today on The Bob Edwards Show:

Peter Sacks began Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (Univ. of California Press, $24.95).

CBS correspondent Bill Geist, author of Way Off the Road: The Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America (Broadway, $23.95).

On The Leonard Lopate Show, career biographer Meryle Secrest described Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject (Wiley, $24.95).

This evening, The Colbert Report sits with former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Basic, $26.95).

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams will air a special report highlighting Anne Ford, coauthor of On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child with Learning Disabilities and ADHD (Newmarket, $16.95).

Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change. For more detailed information about author appearances on these shows and others as well as listings of book mentions and book reviews, see TitleSmart.

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"Authors on the Air" is compiled by Diane Patrick. To be included in the compilation, e-mail DPatrickPW@aol.com.

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