Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Ethan Hawke, writer, director, and co-star of the upcoming film (opening tomorrow) based on his novel The Hottest State (Vintage, $13.95). PW wrote “Hawke's emotionally raw account of a world inescapably contracted is oddly affecting and sure to make many a teenage heart go pit-a-pat.”
Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas Ricks described Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin, $16). From PW’s review: “The main points of this hard-hitting indictment of the Iraq war have been made before, but seldom with such compelling specificity. Ricks's solid reporting, deep knowledge of the American military and willingness to name names make this perhaps the most complete, incisive analysis yet of the Iraq quagmire.”
On The Brian Lehrer Show: New York Times sports columnist WIlliam C. Rhoden, whose Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete (Three Rivers Press, $14.95) is recently out in paperback. PW found it “an insightful look at the role of blacks in sports they dominate but hardly control.”
Diane Rehm met with teacher Dan Brown, author of The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle (Arcade, $25.95).
On The Bob EdwardsShow: Reverend John Buehrens shared Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals (Becaon Press, $14).
This evening, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart hosts Lt. Col. John Nagl, who explains The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Univ. of Chicago Press, $15).
The Colbert Report’s guest is Joe Klein, author of Politics Lost: From RFK To W: How Politicians Have Become Less Courageous and More Interested In Keeping Power Than In Doing What's Right For America (Broadway, $12.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $27.95).
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