The top grossing movie of this weekend was 3:10 to Yuma, which raked in $14.1 million. The critically-acclaimed remake of the 1957 western is based on Elmore Leonard’s 15-page short story, contained in Three-Ten To Yuma and Other Stories (HarperTorch, $5.99; HarperAudio abridged CD, $29.95). This is the first Elmore Leonard western to be made as a theatrical film since his original screenplay for 1972's Joe Kidd with Clint Eastwood.

This morning on both Today and Good Morning America, television crime reporter Amanda Lamb explained Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years (Skirt, $14.95).

Ex—Nixon White House counsel and Watergate whistle-blower John Dean visited The Diane Rehm Show with Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches (Viking, $25.95; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $39.95), which PW found “a vigorous critique of the Republican machinery.”

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Tom Parker Bowles, stepson of Prince Charles, recalled The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes (St. Martin’s, $24.95). Tomorrow he’ll be on Good Morning America.

Law professor and former Yale Law School dean Anthony T. Kronman discussed Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life (Yale Univ. Press, $27.50).

Columnist Anne Kreamer recalled Going Gray: What I Learned About Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters (Little, Brown, $23.99).

On The Bob Edwards Show, historian Daniel Ford introduced Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 (Harper/Smithsonian, $15.95).

Bestseller Brad Thor makes the first of a four-day appearance on CNN’s Glenn Beck show. His new book is The First Commandment: A Thriller (Atria, $25.95; S&S Audio abridged CD, $29.95). PW found it “a long, violent, shoot-'em-up, blow-'em-up pulse-pounder that will leave Thor's fans cheering and begging for more.”

NPR's Fresh Air interviewed historian and journalist Burton Hersh, author of Bobby and J. Edgar: The Bitter Face-Off Between the Kennedys and Hoover (Carrol & Graf, $28.95). PW starred its review, deeming it an “excellent book… What Hersh brings to the party is important new research and intensive analysis revealing the complex background attendant to the confrontations of the 1960s.”

Tonight, The Colbert Report chats with Professor Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (Knopf, $21).

Authors on tonight’s Tavis Smiley re-broadcast:

Clinton administration Middle East envoy Dennis Ross, whose book is Statecraft: And How To Restore America's Standing in the World (FS&G, $26). PW’s opinion: “Ross makes the seemingly dreary, opaque processes of international diplomacy as coherent, absorbing and occasionally dramatic as a procedural thriller.”

Actress, math superstar and Math-A-Thon national spokesperson Danica McKellar, author of Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail (Hudson Street Press, $23.95).

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