This morning, The Diane Rehm Show hosted Pat Shipman, author of Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari (William Morrow, $25.95). PW thought “Shipman offers an engrossing biography of an unusual woman for whom, she says, the truth was whatever she wanted it to be.”

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Sports columnist Joe Posnanski bared The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (William Morrow, $24.95). PW’s review explained: “Posnanski spent a year on the road with the iconic Negro Leagues player and manager Buck O'Neil (1911—2006), recording the magnanimous 94-year-old's encounters with scores of fans and his vast repertoire of entertaining stories.”

Sportswriter Frank Deford talked about The Entitled (Sourcebooks; $24.95), which PW’s review deemed “another hit with this novel of athletes behaving badly. Deford tackles timely and provocative issues without flinching.”

Tony Blair’s former press secretary Alastair Campbell continued promoting The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries (Knopf, $35).

Authors on The Bob Edwards Show:

Kentucky's newest poet laureate Jane Gentry, author of Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig: Poems (Louisiana State Univ. Press, $17.95).

Essayist Sanford Horwitt introduced Feingold: A New Democratic Party (S&S, $26), which PW deemed a “light, one-sided polit-bio.”

Polly Horvath visited The Book Report with The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane (FS & G Books for Young Readers, $17).

This evening on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Jed Babbin, author of In the Words of Our Enemies (Regnery, $24.95).

On The Colbert Report, historian Michael Beschloss imparts Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 (S&S, $28; S&S Audio abridged CD, $29.95).

Tavis Smiley re-airs an interview with former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, author of The New American Story (Random House, $25.95), which PW said “puts forward a tough, plainspoken indictment of the Republicans and a vigorous and substantive Democratic reform program that deserves to be read and debated.”

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