Authors on the Air: Fleeing Hitler; Beating Cancer; Documenting Palestine

Compiled by Diane Patrick, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 10/19/2006

Today on Good Morning America, journalist and bestselling author Kati Marton described The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World (S&S, $27). PW’s starred review declared “Marton writes beautifully, balancing sharply defined character studies of each man with insights into their shared cultural traits and uprootedness.”

Senator Barack Obama visited Today with The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Crown, $25; Random House abridged audio CD, $29.95). Tomorrow, he’ll be on The Diane Rehm Show.

Authors on The Early Show:

Physician and breast cancer survivor Dr. Julie Silver, author of After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger (The Johns Hopkins University Press, $16.95).

Globe and Mail columnist Barbara Moses discussed Women Confidential: Midlife Women Explode the Myths of Having It All (Marlowe & Co., $15.95).

On The Diane Rehm Show, Bill Bryson chronicled The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir (Broadway, $25). PW’s review: “The book is held together by sheer force of personality—but when you've got a personality as big as Bryson's, sometimes that's enough.”

Morning Edition hosted part-time emergency medical technician Michael Perry, who unlocked Truck: A Love Story (HarperCollins, $24.95), which PW said “displays the storytelling and observational skills that made his first book, Population: 485, such a success.”

On The Bob Edwards Show: Historian Rashid Khalidi--a leading expert on the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--rattled The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon Press, $24.95). PW declared that it “brings vital perspective to Palestinian attempts to achieve independence and statehood. … his first-rate and up-to-date historical and political analysis of the Palestinian predicament remains illuminating.”

The Colbert Report chatted with Matthew Dowd, co-author of Applebee's America: How Successful Political, Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community (S&S, $26). PW’s review described it as “solid answers in this analysis by a former Clinton aide, one of the masterminds behind the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign and a senior Associated Press political correspondent.”

Tonight on Tavis Smiley, William Cope Moyers–son of exemplary broadcast journalist Bill Moyers–discusses Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption (Viking, $25.95, Penguin Audio unabridged audio CD, $39.95). PW’s review explained that he “wrecked a bright career at CNN and deserted his family in 1994, hitting bottom as a ‘thirty-five-year-old crack addict.’ Moyers hits his stride in evocations of his muddled, though quasi-methodical, mindset: the vertiginous pull of addiction, the powerful delusions of denial and the double-edged sword of legacy, which proves a potent enabler.”

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