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 C-SPAN2's BookTV (June 5, 2011):
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation , by Andrea Wulf. Random House, 2011. Print Length: 352 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (7 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $17.85. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary generation. She describes how, even as British ships gathered off Staten Island, George Washington wrote his estate manager about the garden at Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartram’s garden helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress break their deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of American environmentalism. These and other stories reveal a guiding but previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution."
On NPR's Diane Rehm Show (June 5, 2011):
Sister, by Rosamund Lupton. Crown, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (48 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99, Hardcover $13.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When the body of Beatrice’s beloved younger sister, Tess, is discovered in an abandoned building in Hyde Park and ruled a suicide, Beatrice knows the police have made a mistake. She’s certain her sister was murdered. Determined to uncover the truth, Beatrice impulsively begins to hunt for clues on her own. So begins Rosamund Lupton’s stunning debut, Sister, at once an engrossing thriller and a powerful meditation on the bonds of family. Writing her story as a letter to Tess, Beatrice gradually connects the strange, varied occurrences leading up to Tess’s death..." - Lynette Mong for Amazon.com Review.
On ABC's Good Morning America (June 6, 2011):
Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, by Ann Coulter. Crown Forum, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (37 reviews). Kindle edition $14.99; Hardcover $15.65. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In her most provocative book to date, Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a mob...As the heirs of the French Revolution, Democrats have a history that consists of pandering to mobs, time and again, while Republicans, heirs to the American Revolution, have regularly stood for peaceable order. Hoping to muddy this horrifying truth, liberals slanderously accuse conservatives of their own crimes - assassination plots, conspiracy theorizing, political violence, embrace of the Ku Klux Klan. Coulter shows that the truth is the opposite: Political violence - mob violence - is always a Democratic affair. Surveying two centuries of mob movements, Coulter demonstrates that the mob is always destructive. And yet, she argues, beginning with the civil rights movement in the sixties, Americans have lost their natural, inherited aversion to mobs. Indeed, most Americans have no idea what they are even dealing with..." - from the hardcover edition.
On Comedy Central's Colbert Report (June 7, 2011):
The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring, by Sugar Ray Leonard, with Michael Arkush. Viking, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $16.04. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Coming from a tumultuous, impoverished household and a dangerous neighborhood on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, Sugar Ray Leonard rose swiftly and skillfully through the ranks of amateur boxing - and eventually went on to win a gold medal in the 1976 Olympics. With an extremely ill father and no endorsement deals, Leonard decided to go pro. The Big Fight takes readers behind the scenes of a notoriously corrupt sport and chronicles the evolution of a champion, as Leonard prepares for the greatest fights of his life - against Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns, and Wilfred Benitez. At the same time Leonard fearlessly reveals his own contradictions and compulsions, his infidelity, and alcohol and cocaine abuse." - Amazon.
On NPR's Fresh Air (June 9, 2011):
License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver, by Rick Harrison. Hyperion, 2011. Print Length: 272 p Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Hardcover $14.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In Las Vegas, there’ s a family-owned business called the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, run by three generations of the Harrison family: Rick; his son, Big Hoss; and Rick’ s dad, the Old Man. Now License to Pawn takes readers behind the scenes of the hit History show Pawn Stars and shares the fascinating life story of its star, Rick Harrison, and the equally intriguing story behind the shop, the customers, and the items for sale. Rick hasn’t had it easy. He was a math whiz at an early age, but developed a similarly uncanny ability to find ever-deepening trouble that nearly ruined his life. With the birth of his son, he sobered up, reconnected with his dad, and they started their booming business together. License to Pawn also offers an entertaining walk through the pawn shop’s history...a captivating look into how the Gold & Silver works, with incredible stories about the crazy customers and the one-of-a-kind items that the shop sells." - Amazon.On NPR's Diane Rehm Show (June 15, 2011):
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, by Juliet Eilperin. Pantheon, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (15 reviews). Kindle edition $13.99; Hardcover $17.25. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species can survive. In this eye-opening adventure that spans the globe, Juliet Eilperin investigates the fascinating ways different individuals and cultures relate to the ocean’s top predator. From Belize to South Africa, from Shanghai to Bimini, we see that sharks are still the object of an obsession that may eventually lead to their extinction. With a reporter’s instinct for a good story and a scientist’s curiosity, Eilperin offers us an up-close understanding of these extraordinary, mysterious creatures in the most entertaining and illuminating shark encounter you’re likely to find outside a steel cage." - Amazon.
On NPR's Diane Rehm Show (June 16, 2011):
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, by John A. Farrell. Doubleday, 2011. Print Length: 400 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $15.99; Hardcover $21.45. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer during the tumultuous Gilded Age in order to champion poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts against big business, Jim Crow, and corrupt officials. He became famous defending union leader Eugene Debs in the landmark Pullman Strike case and went from one headline case to the next - until he was nearly crushed by an indictment for bribing a jury. He redeemed himself in Dayton, Tennessee, defending schoolteacher John Scopes in the 'Monkey Trial,' cementing his place in history. Now, John A. Farrell draws on previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs to offer a candid account of Darrow’s divorce, affairs, and disastrous finances; new details of his feud with his law partner, the famous poet Edgar Lee Masters; a shocking disclosure about one of his most controversial cases; and explosive revelations of shady tactics he used in his own trial for bribery." - Amazon.
On NPR's Weekend Edition (June 19, 2011):
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared, by Alice Ozma. Grand Central Publishing, 2011. Print Length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $15.26. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"When Alice Ozma was nine years old, her father made a promise: to read to her every night, without missing a night, for one-hundred nights. But once the pair met their goal, they couldn't stop. 100 became 1,000, and eventually, they decided to read as long as they possibly could. The Reading Streak, as they called it, ultimately lasted 3,218, finally ending on Alice's first day of college. The story of their amazing commitment to reading, and to each other, is chronicled in Alice Ozma's book..." - author's web site_______________________
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