Tavis Smiley, Compiled by, Tavis Smiley, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-50214-6
Exhorting black Americans to respect themselves and support their community, BET talk show host Smiley opens with 10 ""challenges,"" focusing on education, health and money. These themes are underscored in the second section of the book, which...
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Tavis Smiley, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-48404-6
Smiley, a liberal black TV and nationally syndicated radio commentator, comes out swinging at the Republicans and their ""Contract on America"" in this partisan, thoughtful political statement. He bypasses virtually no one as he skewers politicians...
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Tavis Smiley, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-50514-7
Author (How to Make Black America Better), NPR talk-show host and PrimeTime correspondent Smiley assembled this collection of essays to celebrate the inner strength of black Americans. There are testimonials from the famous, including Cornel West,...
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Tavis Smiley, with David Ritz, read by Tavis Smiley. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-1-4789-2868-3
Smiley, a veteran public broadcasting host and prolific author, chronicles the last year in the life of the civil rights leader, highlighting the more difficult facets of King’s political and personal journey that contemporary audiences may not...
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Tavis Smiley, Author, David Ritz, With as told to David Ritz. Doubleday $23.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-385-50516-1
Talk show host, force behind The Covenant with Black America
and entrepreneur, Smiley begins his life story in self-improvement and moves through self-empowerment into self-aggrandizement. After a Pentecostal upbringing in an Indiana trailer park...
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Tavis Smiley with David Ritz . Little, Brown, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-33276-7
"In his last year, what kind of man had Martin Luther King, Jr. become?" is the question Smiley (What I Know for Sure) raises, asserting that he has "come to firmly believe that, in a critical way, [King] is misunderstood." The book focuses for the...
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Tavis Smiley, with David Ritz. Little, Brown, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-34175-2
This salute to the legendary Maya Angelou by PBS talk host Smiley is occasionally over-adoring, but it's totally respectful of the special achievements of the recently deceased cultural icon of black arts and history. A friendship between Angelou...
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Tavis Smiley and David Ritz. Little, Brown, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-25909-5
Frequent collaborators Smiley and Ritz (My Life with Maya) trace the roller-coaster weeks leading up to the unexpected 2009 death of music icon Michael Jackson in this sympathetic, if not entirely revelatory, tale of musical highs and personal lows.
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Tavis Smiley, Author, Tavis Smiley, Read by, Stephanie Robinson, With with Stephanie Robinson, read by the author. Audioworks $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-8208-7
Bestselling author and television host Smiley picks up where he left off in his previous book to offer a critical look at the problems facing America and to grade the government (and society at large) on its efforts to substantively confront them....
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