Today on Good Morning America, Fred Thompson discussed Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances (Crown Forum, 978-0307460288, $25), which pubs today. Tomorrow, he visits The Brian Lehrer Show.
Authors on this morning’s Today show:
Criminal profiler Pat Brown discussed her memoir The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths (Voice, 978-1401341268, $24.99).
Don Van Ryn, Susie Van Ryn, Colleen Cerak, and Whitney Cerak, authors of Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope (Howard Books, 978-1439153550, $15.99; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $39.95). PW wrote “Readers who don't share the authors' faith may feel alienated, however much they admire the fortitude of the families.”
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Zoologist, conservationist, and journalist Matt Ridley, with The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Harper, 978-0061452055, $26.99; HarperAudio CD, $39.99), which pubs today. PW thought “An ambitious and sunny paean to human ingenuity, this is an argument for why 'ambitious optimism is morally mandatory.'”
Civil rights leader Andrew Young and his godson, Kabir Sehgal, authors of Walk in My Shoes: Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230623606, $24), which pubbed last week.
Meghan Daum described Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House (Knopf, 978-0307270665, $24.95). PW considered it “By turns disarming and tedious . . . but Daum's treading in the wake of the burst housing bubble is sweet and timely.”
On The Diane Rehm Show, Pulitzer-winning journalist Ian Johnson described A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0151014187, $27), which PW called “a troubling example of America's perennial cluelessness about the Muslim world and its religious politics.”
On The Bob Edwards Show, journalist Rose George analyzed The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (Holt, 978-0805090833, $15). PW’s starred review declared “George leads an intrepid, erudite and entertaining journey through the public consequences of this most private behavior.”
The Bonnie Hunt Show chatted with actress Carol Burnett, whose memoir is This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (Harmony, 978-0307461186, $25; RH Audio unabridged CD, $30).
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