Eugene Robinson, author of Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385526548), is on The Colbert Report tonight. PW called the book a “clear-eyed and compassionate study” in which Robinson “marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority ‘with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction's end.’ "
The Today Show visits with Whoopi Goldberg, author of Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There? (Hyperion, ISBN 978-1401323844), and with Walter F. Mondale, author of The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics (Scribner, ISBN 978-1439158661).
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart talks to Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Free Press, ISBN 978-1439171219).
Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen are on Good Morning America talking about their latest book, You: Raising Your Child: The Owner's Manual from First Breath to First Grade (Free Press, ISBN 978-1439109489).
Gina Maisano, two-time breast cancer survivor and author of Intimacy After Breast Cancer: Dealing With Your Body, Relationships, and Sex (Square One, ISBN 978-0-7570-0324-0), talks about her book on ABC’s Good Morning America Health.
Roy Blount Jr. talks about his latest, Hail, Hail, Euphoria! Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made (It Books, ISBN 978-0061808166) is on NPR’s On Point.
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