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 Morning Edition (Oct 4, 2011):
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir, by John Paul Stevens. Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $15.06. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices - Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts - that he interacted with. He reminisces of being a law clerk during Vinson's tenure; a practicing lawyer for Warren; a circuit judge and junior justice for Burger; a contemporary colleague of Rehnquist; and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts. Along the way, he will discuss his views of some the most significant cases that have been decided by the Court from Vinson, who became Chief Justice in 1946 when Truman was President, to Roberts, who became Chief Justice in 2005." - Publisher.
On MSNBC's Martin Bashir Show (Oct 4, 2011)
It's So Easy And Other Lies, by Duff McKagan. Touchstone, 2011. Print Length: 384 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (30 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.14. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In 1984, at the age of twenty, Duff McKagan left his native Seattle - partly to pursue music but mainly to get away from a host of heroin overdoses then decimating his closest group of friends in the local punk scene. In L.A. only a few weeks and still living in his car, he answered a want ad for a bass player placed by someone who identified himself only as 'Slash.' Soon after, the most dangerous band in the world was born. Guns N’ Roses went on to sell more than 100 million albums worldwide. In It's So Easy, Duff recounts GN’R’s unlikely trajectory to a string of multiplatinum albums, sold-out stadium concerts, and global acclaim. But that kind of glory can take its toll, and it did - ultimately - on Duff, as well as on the band itself. As GN’R began to splinter, Duff felt that he himself was done, too. But his near death as a direct result of alcoholism proved to be his watershed, the turning point that led to his unique path to sobriety and the unexpected choices he has made for himself since. Duff - one of rock’s smartest and most articulate personalities - takes readers on his harrowing journey through the dark heart of one of the most notorious bands in rock-and-roll history and out the other side." - Publisher.On NPR's Fresh Air (Oct 5, 2011)
Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals, by Ken Ballen. Foreword by Peter L. Bergen. Free Press, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $15.83. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Imagine a world where a boy’s dreams dictate the behavior of warriors in battle; where a young couple’s only release from forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind hatred, and endemic corruption combine to form a lethal ideology that can hijack a man’s life forever. This is the world of Terrorists in Love. A former federal prosecutor and congressional investigator, Ken Ballen spent five years as a pollster and a researcher with rare access - via local government officials, journalists, and clerics - interviewing more than a hundred Islamic radicals, asking them searching questions about their inner lives, deepest faith, and what it was that ultimately drove them to jihad. Intimate and enlightening, Terrorists in Love opens a fresh window into the realm of violent extremism as Ballen profiles six of these men - from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia - revealing a universe of militancy so strange that it seems suffused with magical realism." - Publisher.On NPR's All Things Considered (Oct 7, 2011)
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, by William Kennedy. Viking, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $13.98. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy's latest novel - a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. Quinn's epic journey carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on the day Robert Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968. The odyssey brings Quinn, and his exotic but unpredictable Cuban wife, Renata, a debutante revolutionary, face-to-face with the darkest facets of human nature and illuminates the power of love in the presence of death. Kennedy masterfully gathers together an unlikely cast of vivid characters in a breathtaking adventure full of music, mysticism, and murder-a homeless black alcoholic, a radical Catholic priest, a senile parent, a terminally ill jazz legend, the imperious mayor of Albany, Bing Crosby, Hemingway, Castro, and a ragtag ensemble of radicals, prostitutes, provocateurs, and underworld heavies..." - Publisher.On ABC's Nightline (Oct 10, 2011) and on NPR's Fresh Air (Oct 11, 2011:
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age, by Nathan Wolfe. Times Books, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.29. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"...award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic. Wolfe's research missions to the jungles of Africa and the rain forests of Borneo have earned him the nickname 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters,' and here Wolfe takes readers along on his groundbreaking and often dangerous research trips - to reveal the surprising origins of the most deadly diseases and to explain the role that viruses have played in human evolution." - Publisher.On NPR's Diane Rehm Show (Oct 11, 2011)
Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President, by Eli Saslow. Doubleday, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. To be released October 11, 2011. Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $15.92. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Every day, President Obama reads ten representative letters among the thousands he receives from citizens across the land. The letters come from people of all ages, walks of life, and political points of view. Some are heartbreaking, some angry, some hopeful. Indeed, Obama reads as many letters addressed 'Dear Jackass' as 'Dear Mr. President.' Eli Saslow, a young and rising star at the Washington Post, became fascinated by the power of these letters and set out to find the stories behind them. Through the lens of ten letters to which Obama responded personally, this exceptionally relevant and poignant book explores those individual stories, taking an in-depth look at the misfortunes, needs, opinions, and, yes, anger over the current state of the country that inspired ten people to put pen to paper." - Publisher._______________________
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