Jim Lehrer. Random, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6917-0
In 1960, when Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy took part in the first televised debate between presidential candidates, they ushered in a new age of media politics. In this history-cum-memoir of serving as the longtime moderator of the debates,...
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Jim Lehrer, Author . Random $23.95 (207p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6486-1
The uncharacteristically impulsive online purchase of a Silver Star medal once belonging to a marine lieutenant sets Hugo Marder, a successful middle-aged suit salesman at an upmarket Washington, D.C., store, on the path to his 15 minutes of fame in
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Jim Lehrer, Author . Random $24.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6487-8
Spurred on by the sight of a toy he never received as a child, a restless, aging Eureka, Kans., insurance executive relives his youth with disastrous (and hilarious) results in the 17th novel by Lehrer, prolific writer and PBS NewsHour
anchor. Otis
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Jim Lehrer, Author . Univ. of Oklahoma $24.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-8061-3915-9
Though billed as a mystery, the broadly satiric eighth entry in PBS news anchor Lehrer's One-Eyed Mack series (Kick the Can
, etc.) contains no crimes as such—unless one counts the antics of zany Oklahoma governor Joe Hayman (aka Buffalo...
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Jim Lehrer, Author . Random $25 (209p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6763-3
Those expecting an Agatha Christie homage from TV journalist Lehrer (Mack to the Rescue
) will be disappointed by this subpar crime novel set in 1956 almost entirely aboard the Super Chief, the train that ran for years between Chicago and Los...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-399-13350-3
One should not look for deep implications in this diverting tale by TV anchor Lehrer. We are back in 1949, in Kansas, with ""One-Eyed Mack,'' son of the best highway patrolman in the whole state and an incurable romantic in the vein of Tom Sawyer....
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Jim Lehrer. Random House, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6916-3
Lehrer (formerly the anchor of PBS’s NewsHour) draws upon his experiences as a reporter in Dallas on November 22, 1963, for this unusual take on the Kennedy assassination. His fictional alter ego in the novel, Dallas Tribune reporter Jack Gilmore,...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Random House (NY) $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-45236-2
This 10th novel from renowned anchorman Lehrer (The Last Debate; The Sooner Spy) trades journalism and Washington politics for the flat highways of 1950s Texas, where Jack T. ""On Time"" Oliver drives a Trailways bus between Houston and Corpus...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Random House (NY) $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-679-45237-9
PBS newsman and veteran novelist Lehrer (White Widow) neatly interweaves ruthlessness, hypocrisy and CIA intrigue in this disarming political thriller. Ex-CIA operative Charlie Henderson comes out of retirement to clear the name of his friend and...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Random House (NY) $20 (207p) ISBN 978-0-679-42823-7
Lehrer's gabby, smartass characters, who are also possessed of depth and originality, will continue to delight those who've read the PBS newscaster's earlier One-eyed Mack mysteries. The pleasure of readers new to the series may be enhanced by...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Plume Books $11 (272p) ISBN 978-0-452-27071-8
In this warm, unaffected autobiography, a BOMC alternate in cloth, news anchor Lehrer writes of life in the Marine Corps, of his 10 years as a reporter in Dallas and of his current endeavors. Photos. Author tour. (Aug.)
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Random House (NY) $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42216-7
The co-anchor of The MacNeil/Leh rer NewsHour is a Washington observer who knows the world he portrays in this brisk, breezy spy story, the kind Company men might tell each other around a fireplace on a cold winter night. Charlie Henderson, owner of
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Random House (NY) $23 (318p) ISBN 978-0-679-44159-5
Taking journalistic activism to unprecedented new heights, the media figures at the heart of this ingratiating post-Clinton political satire overtly change the course of a presidential election. At Williamsburg, Va., a few weeks before election day,
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-399-13765-5
When Lehrer was 12 years old, his family's inter-city bus company in Kansas went bankrupt, so as an adult the TV commentator and novelist has become an ardent collector of bus memorabilia, and he recently bought a 1946 bus. In this warm, unaffected...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-399-13536-1
Mack, the one-eyed lieutenant governor of Oklahoma who swashbuckled through Lehrer's Crown Oklahoma and Kick the Can , mixes it up with Russian spies in this wacky takeoff on the espionage genre. It seems that the president of a local Rotary club is
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Atheneum Books $6.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-689-70710-0
Coanchor of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, the author recounts the doomed attempt by his family to found a bus line in Kansas in the late 1940s. PW wrote: ""The material is slim and repetitious, and Lehrer lacks the tragicomic touch to give it added...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author Random House Inc $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-50371-9
As in his previous novel, White Widow, the plot of newscaster-writer Lehrer's newest book turns on a chance encounter. In this case the pivotal meeting is between retired Methodist Bishop John Quincy Watson of San Antonio, Tex., an elderly ex-B-29...
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Jim Lehrer, Author, James Lehrer, Author . Random $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6198-3
In his 15th novel, PBS news anchor Lehrer turns to the high-stakes world of founding fathers biography for a tale of academic intrigue. His hero is Benjamin Franklin scholar "R" Taylor, who sits on a committee investigating plagiarism...
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James Lehrer, Author, Jim Lehrer, Author . Random $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-50372-6
In his 13th novel, PBS NewsHour
anchor Lehrer delivers a clever forensic mystery. This effort does not quite pack the emotional and dramatic wallop of his last book, The Special Prisoner, but it does raise powerful questions about the ethics of...
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James Lehrer, Author, Jim Lehrer, Author . Random $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6762-6
PBS NewsHour
anchor Lehrer mixes baseball, WWII and romance in his 19th novel to mostly pleasant results. Even though Johnny Wrigley, from smalltown Lafayette, Md., is being scouted by the Detroit Tigers, he enlists in the Marines in April 1944 to &
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James Lehrer, Author, Jim Lehrer, Author . Random $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6197-6
A Kansas City police detective tries to untangle the curious pasts of two asylum patients in this touching novel about lost souls, loneliness and life's small triumphs. Lt. Randy Benton, assigned to make the final sweep of the city's long-shu
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