Today, four-star general Wesley Clark appears on both The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Diane Rehm Show with A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country (Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95; Audio Renaissance unabridged CD, $34.95).

On The Early Show: teen actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse, stars of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and authors of The Showdown (Simon Spotlight, $5.99), the latest in their Sprouse Bros. 47 R.O.N.I.N series.

Joy Behar visited Good Morning America with When You Need a Lift: But Don't Want to Eat Chocolate, Pay a Shrink, or Drink a Bottle of Gin (Crown, $19.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $49.99).

On The Diane Rehm Show, animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell discussed For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend (Ballantine, $15.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $69.99). PW found it “a compelling combination of stories, science and practical advice to show how understanding emotions in both people and dogs can improve owners' relationships with their pets. Her discussion of the meaning of a dog's ‘tongue flicks’ is alone worth the price of the book.

Authors on today’s Book Report:

Cleo Scott Brown, author of Witness to the Truth: John H. Scott's Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana (University of South Carolina Press, $29.95). It’s the story of her father, a grassroots human rights leader, and his campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana. (Tomorrow, in a simliar grassroots vein, thousands of Americans will peacefully demonstrate in Jena, Louisiana to protest the unjust incarceration of “the Jena 6,” six African-American students charged last year, as adults, with attempted murder for punching a white classmate in a schoolyard scuffle.)

Robert Sharenow, a v-p at A&E Network and author of My Mother the Cheerleader (HarperTeen, $16.95).

Authors on The Leonard Lopate Show:

Football star Tiki Barber introduced Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond (Simon Spotlight, $25).

Veteran journalist Mike O'Connor, author of Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe: A Memoir of Life on the Run (Random House, $24.95).

This evening on The Colbert Report: bestseller Naomi Wolf, whose latest is The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot (Chelsea Green, $13.95).

Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas Ricks, author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin, $16; Penguin Audio, $39.95). 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.”

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