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Media interviews are a popular way for writers to introduce new books they hope will catch the viewer's eye and generate interest in their work. Here's a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV and radio programs. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview.

ON NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (08 OCT 2010):
Our Kind of Traitor, by John Le Carré. Viking, 2010. Print Length: 320 p. Kindle edition: $14.99 (Hardcover: $15.09). Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In his last few novels, le Carré has exhibited a remarkable ability to turn multiple forms of international chicanery into gripping, incisive fiction, seemingly before the end of the news cycle... Now, it’s something a little different: international money-laundering. It starts when two idealistic young professionals, one an Oxford professor, the other a lawyer, take a tennis vacation in Antigua, where they meet an unsavory Russian who claims to be 'the world’s Number One money-launderer.' Dima wants Perry and Gail to help him defect to the West - not from Russia, in the cold war sense, but from the Russian underworld, whose leaders have decided he knows too much. One of the things Dima knows is which British 'vulture capitalists' have used Russian Mob money to survive the collapse of the banking industry. It is a complex but fascinating subject, and le Carré dissects it brilliantly..." - Bill Ott for Booklist.

ON CBS'S 60 MINUTES (10 OCT 2010):
Conversations with Myself, by Nelson Mandela. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Print Length: 352 p. Kindle edition: $14.99 (Hardcover: $18.48). Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on 18 July 1918. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison and then later moved to Pollsmoor Prison, during which his reputation as a potent symbol of resistance to the anti-apartheid movement grew steadily. Released from prison in 1990, Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was inaugurated as the first democratically-elected president of South Africa in 1994. Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela’s personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the postapartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency—a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together into a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandela’s first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage..." - Amazon.

ON CSPAN'S BOOK TV (10 OCT 2010):
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History, by Yunte Huang. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. Print Length: 354 p. Kindle edition: $14.82 (Hardcover: $17.79). Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"The Charlie Chan we know from the movies (played by Swedish actor Warner Oland) had two strands to his DNA: E. D. Biggers’ immensely popular Charlie Chan novels and the actual man on whom Biggers based his tales. The model for Biggers’ canny Honolulu detective was Chang Apana, who rose from Hawaiian paniolo (cowboy) in the 1890s to Humane Society officer to Honolulu cop and detective in the early twentieth century. Chang’s beat concentrated on the notorious gambling dens, scenes and seeds of drugs and violence in the labyrinth of Honolulu’s Chinatown. Huang, who was born in China and is a professor of English at the University of California, brings a wealth of perspective on the treatment of Chinese, both historically and in fiction, to this work. Readers will learn a great deal about how the Chinese fared as plantation workers in Hawaii, about Hawaiian history, about Chang, about Biggers, and about the meaning of the Chan oeuvre, both books and movies. Huang also works in his own story of immigrating to the U.S., which is both stirring and illuminating." - Connie Fletcher for Booklist.

ON NBC'S TODAY SHOW (11 OCT 2010):
Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, by Hugh Shelton with Ronald Levinson and Malcolm McConnell. St. Martin's Press, 2010. Print Length: 384 p. Kindle edition: $14.99 (Hardcover: $18.47). Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and tell it like it is. Shelton chronicles his incredible journey from a small farming community in North Carolina to the highest level of American military and political power at the Pentagon and White House. As one of the nation’s elite Special Forces soldiers, Shelton served twice in Vietnam, commanding a Green Beret unit and then an airborne infantry company. Shelton rose up the ranks and was assistant division commander of the 101st Airborne Division as they invaded Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, then led the 20,000 American troops tasked with restoring Haiti’s deposed President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power. Promoted to 4-star General, he became Commander in Chief of U.S. Special Operations Command (including Delta Force, Navy SEALS and other top secret Special Mission Units). But it was while serving as Chairman during both the Clinton and Bush administrations that he faced his biggest challenges, including his role as chief architect of the U.S. military response to 9/11. General Shelton speaks frankly of how decisions were made behind the scenes in the inner sanctum of the E-Ring and Oval Office...Yet it's Shelton’s amazing personal story that puts his military career in perspective." - Amazon.

ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (12 OCT 2010):
Late, Late at Night, by Rick Springfield. Touchstone, 2010. Print Length: 336 p. Kindle edition: $12.99 (Hardcover: $14.04). Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
In the 1980s, singer-songwriter and actor Rick Springfield seemed to have it all: a megahit single in 'Jessie’s Girl,' sold-out concert tours, follow-up hits that sold more than 17 million albums and became the pop soundtrack for an entire generation, and 12 million daily viewers who avidly tuned in to General Hospital to swoon over his portrayal of the handsome Dr. Noah Drake. Yet lurking behind his success as a pop star and soap opera heartthrob and his unstoppable drive was a moody, somber, and dark soul, one filled with depression and insecurity. In a searingly candid memoir which he authored himself, Grammy Award-winning pop icon Rick Springfield pulls back the curtain on his image as a bright, shiny, happy performer to share the startling story of his rise and fall and rise in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression. On one level, he reveals the inside story of his ride to the top of the entertainment world. On a second, deeper level, he recounts with unsparing candor the forces that have driven his life, including his longtime battle with depression and thoughts of suicide, the shattering death of his father, and his decision to drop out at the absolute peak of fame. Having finally found a more stable equilibrium, Rick’s story is ultimately a positive one, deeply informed by his passion for creative expression through his music, a deep love of his wife of twenty-six years and their two sons, and his life-long quest for spiritual peace." - Amazon.

ON COMEDY CENTRAL'S THE DAILY SHOW (12 OCT 2010):
Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, by Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy. Threshold Editions, 2010. Print Length: 224 p. Kindle edition: $9.99 (Paperback: 10.20). Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"A prescriptive call-to-action for the Republican party by three Congressmen. Eric Cantor (Virginia) is the Republican Whip who holds a seat on the House Ways and Means Committee and serves as chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. He chairs the House Economic Recovery Working Group, which developed the Republican alternative to the president’s stimulus package and crafted a range of solutions to get families and small-business people back to work. Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) is a sixth-term congressman, the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee. Kevin McCarthy (California), a two-term congressman and House Chief Deputy Republican Whip, was named one of the GOP’s 'most persuasive, compelling members' by Newsweek." - Amazon.

ON NPR'S THE DIANE REHM SHOW (12 OCT 2010):
The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, by Walter Mondale. Scribner, 2010. Print Length: 384 p. Kindle edition: $14.99 (Hardcover: $20.16). Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"For more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America’s movement for social change - in civil rights, environmentalism, consumer protection, and women’s rights - and helped to forge the modern Democratic Party. In The Good Fight, Mondale traces his evolution from a young Minnesota attorney general, whose mentor was Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, into a U.S. senator himself. ...Just as indispensably, he charts the evolution of Democratic liberalism from John F. Kennedy to Clinton to Obama while spelling out the principles required to restore the United States as a model of progressive government..." - Amazon.