This morning on Today, 1976 Olympic skating champion Dorothy Hamill recounted A Skating Life: My Story (Hyperion, $24.95), which PW deemed a “quietly charming book.” Tomorrow, she’ll appear on The Leonard Lopate Show.
Jenna Bush visited TheEarly Show with Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope (HarperCollins, $18.99; HarperChildrensAudio abridged CD, $21.95).
Making the second of two appearances on Good Morning America were:
Rosie O'Donnell, whose forthcoming (Oct. 8) memoir is Celebrity Detox: (the fame game) (Grand Central Publishing, $23.99).
Beth Holloway,with A Mother’s Testament of Hope and Faith: The True Story of the Aruba Kidnapping and its Aftermath (Harper One, $24.95).
Prolific writer and PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer visited The Diane Rehm Show with his 17th novel Eureka (Random House, $24.95). From PW’s review: “Calamity gives way to poignancy in this consistently fun story buoyed by an endearing protagonist readers will cheer for.”
Bob Edwards talked with Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, whose third book is The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books, $28; Audio Renaissance abridged CD, $29.95). PW wrote: “much of her critique hits home, as she demonstrates how free-market ideologues welcome, and provoke, the collapse of other people's economies. The result is a powerful populist indictment of economic orthodoxy.”
Talk show host Chris Matthews visited The Leonard Lopate Show with Life's A Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success (Random House, $24.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $29.95).
Tonight, Tavis Smiley interviews New York Times columnist Frank Rich, author of The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America (Penguin, $15; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $39.95), which PW’s starred review declared a “blistering j'accuse… a caustic, hard-hitting indictment of the Bush administration, timed to make a splash in the upcoming election campaign.”
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