This morning on Today, Denise Jackson, wife of country music superstar Alan Jackson, talked about her memoir It's All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life (Thomas Nelson, $24.95).

Both Good Morning America and The Leonard Lopate Show hosted tennis champion James Blake, whose memoir is Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life (HarperCollins, $25.95), which PW found “an inspirational account of overcoming the odds to return to competitive playing by 2004.”

Also on The Leonard Lopate Show:

Rainforest biologist Margaret Lowman and her son Edward Burgess, co-authors of It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops (Yale Univ. Press, $27.50). From PW’s review: “A single mother who studies the science of eaten leaves (herbivory), Lowman has traveled to distant tropical locations such as Peru, India and Samoa, often with her two sons in tow, and in this testament to her rarified approach to parenting, urges parents to get out there with their kids and let them get dirty. Lowman's spirited tale of science and single parenting is inspirational.”

Marking the 32nd anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, attorney Steven J. Harper, son of a silenced Hoffa-era Teamsters activist, discussed Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster's Story (Borealis Books, $24.95). He also appeared on USA Radio’s Daybreak USA.

Alan Weisman visited The Diane Rehm Show with The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne, $24.95; Audio Renaissance unabridged CD, $39.95). PW starred its review, calling it an “imaginative hybrid of solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Weisman's enthralling tour of the world of tomorrow explores what little will remain of ancient times while anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like.”

NPR’s On Point hosted social critic (and Scotsman) A.A. Gill, author of The Angry Island: Hunting the English (S&S, $24), which PW found a “provocatively perceptive dissection of English cultural mores. In 16 defiantly abrasive essays, Gill bristles with outrageous originality.”

The Bob Edwards Show interviewed economics professor Ken McCormick, author of Veblen in Plain English: A Complete Introduction to Thorstein Veblen's Economics (Cambria Press, $24.95).

Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart chats with Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former press secretary, whose book is The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries (Knopf, $35).

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