On today’s Leonard Lopate Show, Eric Jaffe traveled The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America (Scribner, 978-1416586142, $27.50). PW wrote “Jaffe's concluding personal journey along the historic way lends color to his light work of popular history.”
On the Today show, journalist and TV host Rita Cosby introduced Quiet Hero: Secrets from My Father's Past (Threshold Editions, 978-1439165508, $26).
NPR’s On Point hosted David Herlihy, author of The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547195575, $26).
This evening on The Colbert Report, Manny Howard describes My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm (Scribner, 978-1416585169, $25). PW thought “his reminder of the fundamental necessity of hard work is worth heeding.”
The Daily Show interviews reporter Jere Van Dyk, whose book is Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban (Times Books, 978-0805088274, $25; Macmillan Audio unabridged CD, $39.99), which PW called a “harrowing memoir... a gripping tale of endurance and a vivid evocation of Afghanistan's grim realities.”
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