Lisa Rogak, Author . Penguin/Chamberlain Bros. $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59609-038-5
This disappointing bio isn't sure if it's meant to dig up and reveal scandal or to study a business/diet plan/trend in American culture and the man behind it. Atkins (1930–2003) is the man behind the low-carb diet mania, of course: the
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Lisa Rogak, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $25.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-37732-8
Though critical studies of his vast oeuvre abound, King—the
bestselling author of the 20th century—has not been the subject of a book-length biography until this strictly serviceable study. Rogak (The Man Behind
The Da Vinci Code)...
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Lisa Rogak, Author Ten Speed Press $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58008-563-2
Whether it's because food helps survivors cope with loss or because people want to send their dead off with some nourishment for their journey or because""there's no better way to prove you're alive... than by eating,"" the practice of feasting...
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Lisa Rogak. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-61610-6
Rogak (who’s written bios of Shel Silverstein and Stephen King, among many others), traces the trajectory of political satirist Stephen Colbert. She takes her task seriously, having pored through the archives of the Medical University of South...
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Lisa Rogak. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $15.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-250-03540-0
This collection of tender stories and photos describes surprising interspecies relationships, many involving an adult predator suppressing its instinct to kill and taking on a parental role when exposed to an orphaned or abandoned baby animal that...
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Lisa Rogak. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-125-0-01444-3
In this pseudo-biography of Jon Stewart (né Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz), Rogak (Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words) packages a canned chronology of a figure's life and career. Starting from the very beginning, she tracks Stewart's childhood a short,...
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Lisa Rogak. Thomas Dunne, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-62055-2
Rogak (Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words) delivers a flattering if light biography of cable news anchor Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Rogak pieces together third-party interviews—with Maddow, her family, and her colleagues—to
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Edited Lisa Rogak. Seal (PGW, dist.), $14 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-58005-533-8
Rogak (Barak Obama in His Own Words) crafts a compact and concise tribute to Hillary Clinton through quotes taken from the politician during the course of career in this tiny book with big aspirations. Created as a "refresher course" on the...
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Lisa Rogak, Read by Cassandra Campbell. Tantor Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 6.5 hours, $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4945-0555-4
Cassandra Campbell brings a relaxed, casual tone to her narration of this unauthorized biography of political comedian Jon Stewart. It’s hard to imagine Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, born into an ordinary middle-class household in New Jersey, would...
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Lisa Rogak. Thomas Dunne, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-77366-1
Rogak (Rachel Maddow) doesn’t impress in her latest celebrity biography, a superficial look at game show host Alex Trebek that adds little to what’s been written before. Trebek was born in 1940 in Sudbury, Ontario, and had an unremarkable childhood...
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Lisa Rogak. St. Martin’s, $29.00 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-27559-2
Journalist Rogak (Angry Optimist) offers a riveting portrait of four women who worked as Allied propagandists during WWII. Recruited by the OSS department of Morale Operations, the women produced reams of “black propaganda” meant to pass as...
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