This morning, the Today show hosted J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Arthur A. Levine Books, $34.99; Listening Library unabridged CD, $79.95). From PW’s review: “We can’t think of anyone else who has sustained such an intricate, endlessly inventive plot over seven thick volumes and so constantly surprised us with twists, well-laid traps and Purloined Letter-style tricks.” She’ll return to the program tomorrow.
Original shock rocker Alice Cooper visited NPR’s Soundcheck with his first book, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict (Crown, $24.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $27.95). PW’s review had this to say: “Without golf, Cooper might no longer be alive-and not incidentally, the rock legend has since become one of the best players on the pro-am tournament circuit. While there's more here for fans of Alice Cooper's music than his fellow golfing nuts, the man deserves credit for finding a way to tell his life story that's as unconventional as the life itself.”
On The Diane Rehm Show, Eugene Drucker, violinist for the Emerson String Quartet, discussed The Savior (S&S, $23), which PW considered “a haunting novel of the waning days of WWII. … his morality tale has bite.”
Authors on The Leonard Lopate Show:
Tom Santopietro explained Considering Doris Day (Thomas Dunne, $25.95), which PW deemed “a sharp-eyed, carefully researched career evaluation that also convincingly rebukes many modern misconceptions about her pristine screen persona and status as a singer.”
Clinical psychologist Peter O. Whitmer, co-author of Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created The Sixties Counterculture That Changed America (Citadel, $13.95).
Bob Edwards interviewed curator Nicholas Fox Weber, author of The Clarks of Cooperstown (Knopf, $35). From PW’s review: “Weber tells the fascinating story of an art-obsessed family—especially Sterling and Stephen Clark, whose affinity with artists, says Weber, went beyond the usual collector's. Weber's delightfully written study includes much insightful psychological speculation about these larger-than-life men.” (An exhibit about Sterling and Stephen Clark and their collection is at the Metropolitan Musem of Art in New York City through Aug. 19.)
Tonight on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, bestseller Robert Dallek promotes Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (HarperCollins, $32.50; HarperAudio CD, $44.95). PW starred its review, predicting it “will quickly become recognized as a classic of modern history: the definitive analysis of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's complex, often troubled partnership in running American foreign policy from January 1969 through August 1974.”
The Colbert Report meets with campaign strategist Robert Shrum, author of No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner (S&S, $28). From PW’s review: “Casual judgments and frank disclosures along the way make this a provocative and entertaining behind-the-scenes look at American politics.”
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