This morning, the Today show hosted John Grisham, whose Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (Dutton Children's Books, 978-0525423843, $16.99; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $19.95) pubbed yesterday.
On The Early Show: journalist Batt Humphreys, with his debut novel Dead Weight (Joggling Board Press, 978-0984107346, $14.95).
Authors on today’s Brian Lehrer Show:
Former Shell Oil president John Hofmeister explained Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230102088, $27), which pubbed yesterday.
The New Yorker editor David Remnick discussed The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Knopf, 978-1400043606, $29.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $50).
On The Leonard Lopate Show: history and science studies professor Naomi Oreskes and science writer Erik M. Conway, whose Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury, 978-1596916104, $27) pubbed yesterday. In a starred review, PW declared “This book deserves serious attention for the lessons it provides about the misuse of science for political and commercial ends.”
Tonight on Tavis Smiley, bestseller Robert Kuttner looks at A Presidency in Peril: The Inside Story of Obama's Promise, Wall Street's Power, and the Struggle to Control our Economic Future (Chelsea Green, 978-1603582704, $25).
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