Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Fortune magazine editor Cait Murphy recalled Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Collins, $24). PW’s starred review wrote “what really makes Murphy's book an addictive pleasure is the joy the author takes in the colorful asides where she fills in the chaotic blanks of an America discovering not just the joy of its national pastime but its very character.”

Baseball veteran Gary Sheffield discussed his memoir Inside Power (Crown, $25).

Acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson with his best-selling Einstein: His Life and Universe (S&S, $32; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $49.95; abridged, $29.95). PW noted that “Isaacson reminds us why Einstein (1879—1955) remains one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th century.”

Surgeon and MacArthur fellow Atul Gawande, author of Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Metropolitan, $24; Audio Renaissance unabridged CD, $29.95). In a starred review, PW said “one suspects that once we cure the ills of the health care system, we'll look back and see that Gawande's writings were part of the story.”

This morning on The Bob Edwards Show: poet Brian Gilmore insisted Elvis Presley Is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem (Third World Press, $8).

On The McLaughlin Group, attorney Scott Gant promised We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age (Free Press, $26).

This weekend on Book TV:

Vanity Fair contributing editor Christopher Hitchens, whose latest is God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hachette/Twelve, $24.99; Twelve unabridged CD, $39.98).

Michael Duffy, co-author of The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House (Center Street, $26.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $39.98).

Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter argues Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement (Nation Books, $13.95).

Nancy Isenberg, author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (Viking, $29.95), which PW called a “striking biography.”

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