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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 broadcasts. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview.

On CBS's 60 MINUTES (20 Feb 11) AND NBC's Today Show (21 Feb 11):

Against All Odds: A Life from Hardship to Hope, by Scott Brown. Harper Collins, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.79. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Scott Brown's greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. For nearly two decades' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school's history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan magazine's "America's Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man's dream and his determination to fight for a better future." - Amazon.

On C-SPAN2's Book TV (20 Feb 2011):

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, by Evgeny Morozov. Public Affairs, 2011. Print Length: 432 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition: $9.99; Hardcover $18.45. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"'The revolution will be Twittered!' declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. Could the recent Western obsession with promoting democracy by digital means backfire? In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder - not easier - to promote democracy. ...Morozov is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and Boston Review and a Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation." - Amazon.

On ABC's Good Morning America (21 Feb 2011), on ABC's Nightline (21 Feb 2011), and on Comedy Central (24 Feb 2011):

A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don't!), by Mike Huckabee. Sentinel, 2011. Print Length: 240 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.20. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Armed with little money but a lot of common sense, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee surprised the nation by coming in second during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. He connected with millions of voters by calling for a smaller, simpler government that would get out of the way when appropriate. ...Huckabee has continued to be the voice of common sense conservatism, through his television talk show, his radio commentaries, and his lectures around the country. Now he's written a book that sums up the twelve things we really need from Washington to get the country back on the right track. These twelve essential truths will have you nodding in agreement, whether you're a Republican, an Independent, or even an open-minded Democrat. They can help us put aside our differences, tone down the partisan rancor, and return to the simple principles of the Founding Fathers: liberty, justice, personal freedom, and civic virtue. And they can help us tackle even the most seemingly complicated of today's problems." - Amazon.

On the CBS Late Show with David Letterman (21 Feb 2011):

Known and Unknown: A Memoir, by Donald Rumsfeld. Publisher. Print Length: 832 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (47 reviews). Please note: many of the 1 star reviews are based on the fact that the publisher is asking more for the Kindle edition than for the hardcover version. Proceeds from the sale of the book, however, will go to veterans charities supported by the Rumsfeld Foundation. Kindle edition $19.99; Hardcover $18.73. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history: his experiences growing up during the Depression and World War II, his time as a Naval aviator; his service in Congress starting at age 30; his cabinet level positions in the Nixon and Ford White Houses; his assignments in the Reagan administration; and his years as a successful business executive in the private sector. Rumsfeld addresses the challenges and controversies of his illustrious career, from the unseating of the entrenched House Republican leader in 1965, to helping the Ford administration steer the country away from Watergate and Vietnam, to bruising battles over transforming the military for the 21st century, to the war in Iraq, to confronting abuse at Abu Ghraib and allegations of torture at Guantanamo Bay. Along the way, he offers his plainspoken, first-hand views and often humorous and surprising anecdotes about some of the world's best known figures, from Margaret Thatcher to Saddam Hussein, from Henry Kissinger to Colin Powell, from Elvis Presley to Dick Cheney, and each American president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush." - Amazon.

On NPR's Diane Rehm Show (21 Feb 2011):

Wild Bill Donovan, by Douglas Waller. Free Press, 2011. Print Length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $16.08. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence agency) and the father of today’s CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan’s relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage." - Amazon.

On C-SPAN2's Book TV (22 Feb 2011):

Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters, by James Zogby. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Print Length: 256 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (11 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover: $16.50. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Using comprehensive polling date from eight Arab countries, James Zogby presents the thoughts and feelings of Muslims about stereotypes of their culture and religion, the 9-11 attacks, the War on Terror and the Iraq War. With this data, Mr. Zogby says he hopes to clarify Arab culture and beliefs to the Western world. James Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute and writes a weekly column that appears in 20 Arab newspapers. He's a member of the Democratic National Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a senior advisor to the polling firm Zogby International." - C-SPAN2.

On NPR's Diane Rehm Show (24 Feb 2011):

33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners, by Jonathan Franklin. Putnam, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (7 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.40. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...the riveting and authoritative account of the 2010 San José mine rescue in Chile - after one of the longest human entrapments in history. For eight weeks, Franklin conducted interviews with families, rescue workers, the mine psychologist, drill operators, scientists, and the architects of the rescue operation. He reported from an improvised office on the mountainside that was the nerve center of the rescue operation, in a makeshift container. Far below, families and loved ones lived in a cluster of tents known as Camp Hope. While the men were still underground, Franklin interviewed them via a crude telephone; he helped send vital supplies to them via the "paloma" (pigeon). And when the first miners were rescued on October 13, Mr. Franklin had the first media contact with the recently freed men in a series of interviews from inside the field hospital. In captivating and never-before-revealed detail, Franklin tells a spellbinding story of the improbable survival of the miners, trapped some 2,200 feet underground for sixty-nine days. Based on more than 110 interviews with the miners, their families, and the rescue team, Franklin's account combines an expert eye for detail and dialogue with the remarkable human interest story of these miners struggling to survive in a savage environment." - Amazon.