Michael A. Smerconish, Author Lyons Press $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-59921-517-4
In this memoir-cum-mission statement, radio talker Smerconish delivers a wrap-up of his punditry career mapped to a 15-point ""Suburban Manifesto"" he first published in a 2006 Philadelphia Daily News column. A long-time Republican upset by his...
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Michael A. Smerconish, Author, Arlen Specter, Foreword by ; foreword by Sen. Arlen Specter. Running Press $18.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-7624-2376-7
Flying with his family, Smerconish, a radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist based in Philadelphia, twice had his eight-year-old son chosen for "secondary screening"—and was twice able to substitute himself without incident,...
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Michael A. Smerconish, Author, Kurt A. Schreyer, With Lyons Press $19.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-59921-516-7
At the center of this dramatic true story is Mohammed al Kahtani, allegedly meant to serve as the 20th 9/11 hijacker, whose denial of entry to the U.S. by an Orlando customs officer may have provided just the edge that the passengers of United...
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Maureen Faulkner, Author, Michael A. Smerconish, Author Lyons Press $24.95 (349p) ISBN 978-1-59921-376-7
In this moving if ultimately unsuccessful memoir, Faulkner continues her fight for the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the man convicted for the 1981 killing of her husband, police officer Danny Faulkner. On the strength of eyewitness testimony,...
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