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Cathy Wilkerson "Flying Close to the Sun"
It was the spring of 1970. A young woman named Cathy Wilkerson survived a bomb blast at a townhouse in Manhattan. Three other people were killed. It was, in fact, a bomb being built in the basement of that house by her colleagues with the Weather Underground, the radical leftist student group. For the next ten years Wilkerson was a fugitive, before turning herself in. She pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of dynamite, and served a brief prison sentence. Now she tells her story, and the story...

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[ Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:47:06 EST ]


Brock Clarke "An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes in New England"
When the homes of famous authors begin burning down, suspicion immediately falls on one Sam Pulsifer, who just did ten years in prison for torching the Emily Dickinson homestead. As the narrator of Brock Clarke's new novel, Sam sees the new life he's trying to maintain crumble around him as more houses burn. Clarke's novel is called "An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes in New England." ...

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[ Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:10:15 EST ]


Mark Z. Danielewski "Only Revolutions"
There are two sides to every story. Especially in Mark Z. Danielewski's unique story of the journey taken by teen lovers Hailey and Sam, called "Only Revolutions." But is it a road trip, or an extended metaphor? One story, or two? We get Hailey's version .. then Sam's. Or is it vice versa? Danielewski carefully -- and literally -- dispenses the narrative measure by measure, in a design that Publishers Weekly says "is a marvel" and "a feat of Pynchonesque puzzlebookdom." [Interview taped at Bord...

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[ Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:22:44 EST ]


John Elder Robison "Look Me In the Eye"
As early as nursery school, it was apparent that John Elder Robison was not like the other kids. But it wasn't until he was 40 that a therapist finally diagnosed what it was about him that was different: he has a high-functioning form of autism called Asperger Syndrome. Now, in a new memoir, Robison describes his painful childhood -- and life with his brother. You may have heard of him, too -- he changed his name to Augusten Burroughs, and wrote "Running With Scissors." John Elder Robison's boo...

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[ Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:53:00 EST ]


Ann Packer "Songs Without Words"
Two women, friends since childhood, have their friendship severely tested when one faces a family crisis, in Ann Packer's novel "Songs Without Words." The challenge to Liz and Sarabeth's relationship comes when Liz's teenage daughter nearly loses her life. This is the second novel for the acclaimed author of "The Dive From Clausen's Pier." ...

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[ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:36:05 EST ]


Chris Matthews "Life's a Campaign"
He's a former newspaperman, Peace Corps volunteer, U.S. Capitol policeman, and top aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Today, Chris Matthews is best known for his cable TV news and interview show "Hardball." And in his new book "Life's a Campaign" Matthews tells the lessons he's learned over the last 40 years, and how they apply to life-in-general ...

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[ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:05:31 EDT ]


Glenn Kessler "The Confidante"
From an academic post at Stanford University to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice has become the most powerful woman in America. Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler dissects Rice's close relationship with George W. Bush, and how it has shaped U.S. foreign policy, in a new book called "The Confidante." ...

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[ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:00:41 EDT ]


Naomi Wolf "The End of America"
If it's axiomatic that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it, Americans may be in deep peril, indeed. In a stark and startling new book, writer and political consultant Naomi Wolf illuminates the history we had better start familiarizing ourselves with, before it's too late. Her call to action is called "The End of America." ...

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[ Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:04:41 EDT ]


Dave Barry "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)"
Here we are, well into the new millennium -- seven years into it! -- and doggone it, it's high time someone wrote a history of it. Luckily for all of us, esteemed historian and retired humor columnist Dave Barry gamely volunteered for the task, taking valuable time away from his golf game to do so. His new book is called "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)." [Interview taped at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC] ...

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[ Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:03:15 EDT ]


Wesley Clark "A Time to Lead"
From segregated Little Rock in the '50s, to West Point and Vietnam in the '60s, and ultimately to the 2004 presidential race, retired General Wesley Clark has learned a lifetime of lessons. Lessons of loyalty, of leadership, and of principle. Now Clark shares what he's learned, in an autobiography called "A Time to Lead." ...

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[ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:49:14 EDT ]


Carl Bernstein "A Woman in Charge"
She stands a good chance of becoming our 44th president, and the first woman to hold that office. So how much do we know about who Hillary Rodham Clinton really is? Liberal? Feminist? Dutiful wife who insists she doesn't bake cookies? Now famed investigative journalist Carl Bernstein goes in search of what motivates the Senator from New York. His book is called "A Woman in Charge." ...

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[ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:14:56 EDT ]


Alek Wek "Alek"
Alek Wek was born in the southern Sudan town of Wau in 1977. Six years later her country was plunged into a long and brutal civil war, and in 1991 her family fled to Britain. It was in London, in 1995, that Alek's life was dramatically changed. A scout for a modeling agency spotted Alek, and has since become one of the world's top supermodels. She has also created her own line of handbags, Wek 1933. Her new memoir is called "Alek." ...

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[ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:25:04 EDT ]


Randall Robinson "An Unbroken Agony"
Just before he was overthrown in a coup in February 2004, former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was in contact with his old friend Randall Robinson, the activist founder of TransAfrica. When Aristide and his wife were whisked away to exile in the Central African Republic, it was a U.S. delegation led by Robinson and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters that carried out what amounted to a rescue mission. They brought the Aristides back to Jamaica. Now, in a new book, Robinson tells t...

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[ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:56:27 EDT ]


Col. Randall Larsen "Our Own Worst Enemy"
What will you do, when the next terrorist strike happens in your city? Retired Air Force Colonel Randall Larsen, the founding director of the Institute for Homeland Security, says we better not count on the government for all of our needs. In fact, he says, as a nation we're asking the wrong questions about our security. He tells us what the right questions are - and the answers - in his book "Our Own Worst Enemy." ...

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[ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:54:20 EDT ]


Michael Korda "Ike: An American Hero"
They once dubbed him "The People's General," so popular was Dwight David Eisenhower. In these difficult times, with America mired in an unpopular war, recalling a singular figure like Ike is somehow reassuring, and his latest biographer, Michael Korda, doesn't disappoint. His book "Ike: An American Hero" centers on Eisenhower's World War II tenure as commander of Allied armies in Europe. ...

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[ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:51:49 EDT ]


James Gaines "For Liberty and Glory"
George Washington is revered as the father of his country. He never had a son, but that hasn't stopped many an historian from speculating that that's why General Washington became so attached to France's Marquis de Lafayette, a fellow patriot-citizen who played a key role in both the American and French revolutions. Now historian James Gaines shows, in his book "For Liberty and Glory" why the notion of a father-son relationship is so off-the-mark. ...

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[ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:50:56 EDT ]


Report from the 2007 National Book Festival
Just months after coming to Washington, D.C. as the nation's new First Lady, former librarian Laura Bush launched the National Book Festival. In the years since the first Festival in 2001, it has grown to become one of the nation's foremost venues for authors and readers. Last weekend, more than 100,000 people from all over the country came to Washington for the seventh National Book Festival. Today we take you there! (The website mentioned in today's program is: www.marcberniershow.com) ...

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[ Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:23:37 EDT ]


John Dean "Broken Government"
We've all heard of President George Bush's abysmal approval rating; the outrage over the abridgement of civil liberties; the "cone of silence" over the administration's actions; the erosion of constitutional checks and balances. It's so bad, some people yearn for the "good old days" of Richard Nixon. His onetime White House counsel, John Dean, warns of what the Republican Party he has now abandoned is doing to the country, in a new book called "Broken Government." ...

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[ Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:04:20 EDT ]


Stephenie Meyer "Eclipse"
This past summer, it seemed like no book could match the popularity of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" -- except one. Harry was knocked out of the number one spot on several bestseller lists by the third volume in "Twilight," a series of vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer, who is fast becoming America's J.K. Rowling. In "Eclipse," her still-human teenage heroine Bella will have to choose between her love of Edward, a vampire, and her friendship with Jacob, a fledgling werewolf. ...

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[ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:39:33 EDT ]


Wendell Jamieson "Father Knows Less"
Every parent knows how inquisitive young children are. Questions, questions, questions, all day every day. And the best thing about kids' questions is, they're perfectly honest, innocent, and transparent -- why DO cops like donuts so much? How does a whip make that noise, if it doesn't hit anything? Wendell Jamieson, the city editor for the New York Times, has spent his professional life finding answers to bigger, more adult questions. But when his seven-year-old son, Dean, started asking kid q...

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[ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:56:32 EDT ]


Leslie Sanchez "Los Republicanos"
For a long time now, it's been assumed that America's Hispanic voters are Democrats. Republicans have assumed that, Democrats have assumed that, even many Hispanics have assumed that. But entrepeneur and Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez argues in her new book "Los Republicanos" that Hispanics and the GOP may have a lot more in common than they thought. In fact, she says, they need each other. ...

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[ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:17:43 EDT ]


Diana Gabaldon "Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade"
Lord John Grey is an English aristocrat, soldier, and gentleman, fighting in the Seven Years' war in the mid-18th century in Europe. He is also gay. And in the new Diana Gabaldon novel "Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade," there is a truth to be uncovered: the real story behind the death of Lord John's father 17 years ago. Oh, and did we mention that Lord John also has a new love interest? One who could put his very life in danger? ...

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[ Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:34:09 EDT ]


Junot Diaz "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
Meet Oscar Wao, a chubby fanboy nerd who lives in New Jersey with his mother and his sister. Oscar's a first-generation Dominican-American, dreaming of being a sci-fi author but dealing in the meantime with the challenges of youth, including the longing for a romance. In the debut novel by Junot Diaz, called "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," we come to understand Oscar not by meeting him or hearing directly from him, but through those who know him. ...

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[ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:49:41 EDT ]


Kiron Skinner & Serhiy Kudelia "The Strategy of Campaigning"
In the waning days of the Cold War, two political figures emerged -- one on each side of the long standoff -- who changed the entire conversation, and remade the world. Ronald Reagan is one of those leaders. But the other is not Mikhail Gorbachev, it's Boris Yeltsin. Now scholars Kiron Skinner and Serhiy Kudelia, along with co-authors who include Condoleezza Rice, show us what Reagan and Yeltsin did, and why it was so significant, in their book called "The Strategy of Campaigning." ...

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[ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:04:44 EDT ]


Kris Carr "Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips"
In 2003 actress and photographer Kris Carr was diagnosed with cancer. Not just any cancer, either -- the rare and incurable kind. As she puts it, "I thought my life was over, I had no idea it was just getting started!" Carr has made it her mission to give cancer a kick in the rear, and a makeover at the same time. First she made a documentary about her own medical journey. And now she has a book, filled with encouragement, advice, guidance and humor -- her own, and that of over a dozen members...

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[ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:06:19 EDT ]


Mike O'Connor "Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe"
An old cigar box, filled with the miscellany of a life, provides the inspiration and the jumping-off point for one journalist's mission to find the truth about his own family. All that Mike O'Connor had at the outset was obscure memories from the 1950s of his mother and father taking Mike and his sisters, loading up the car, and heading to Mexico, leaving everything and everyone behind. His book is called "Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe." ...

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[ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:01:59 EDT ]


Dr. Leonard Sax "Boys Adrift"
What's happening to America's boys? When fully one third of men as old as age 34 are still living at home with Mom and Dad, something is wrong. Aren't they ambitious any more? Don't they have plans? What happened to career, marriage, and family? And why aren't girls facing similar challenges? Dr. Leonard Sax, a family physician and research psychologist with a practice in suburban Washington, DC went looking for answers. What he found, is in his new book "Boys Adrift." ...

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[ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:41:57 EDT ]


Kathy Reichs "Bones to Ashes"
It's always very tough for a professional in either the law enforcement or medical fields to take on a case involving someone close to them. But sometimes they have little choice in the matter, as in the new Kathy Reichs thriller "Bones to Ashes." Her series heroine, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, is called on to examine the bones of a teenage girl -- and realizes the remains are those of a beloved, and long-disappeared childhood friend. ...

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[ Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:19:14 EDT ]


Ellen Crosby "The Chardonnay Charade"
When a late spring frost places Virginia vintner Lucie Montgomery's grapes in jeopardy, she takes steps to protect the vines -- and uncovers a murder, in Ellen Crosby's new mystery "The Chardonnay Charade." It's the second in her fledgling but already-acclaimed series of Virginia wine country mysteries. ...

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[ Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:16:20 EDT ]


Peter Yarrow "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a musical icon. Written by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton in 1959, and first recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1963, it has become one of the best-known and best-loved songs of our time. But there has never been a children's picture book adaptation of the song -- until now. ...

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[ Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:00:45 EDT ]

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