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By dave, on September 14th, 2010%
On the September 14 episode of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, the intervew guest was former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. His new book is a political memoir of his time as a politician through his recent time with his tumultuous time leading Great Britain.
Buy A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on September 14th, 2010%
On the September 13 episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was author Lisa Birnbach. She is best known for authoring the popular tongue-in-cheek Preppy Handbook in 1980. Her new book is a humourous revisiting of the topic of preppies, 30 years on from the original book.
Buy True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World by Chip Kidd and Lisa Birnbach from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.
By dave, on September 8th, 2010%
On the September 7 episode of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, a guest was fashion consultant and reality show host Tim Gunn. His newest book broadens out from the fashion world he is known for and examines ways in which you can live your life to achieve greater success, have greater satisfaction and generally be a better person to be around.
Buy Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work by Tim Gunn from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on September 2nd, 2010%
The Colbert Report sometimes has guests in the opening segments as well as the designated interview segment, and I sometimes miss those. Here is one that I missed at the time but just ran across. On the August 25th episode of The Colbert Report, a guest was professor and critic of the educational system Andrew Hacker. He appeared as part of a segment about online universities that appear to be scamming students.
Buy Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It by Andrew Hacker from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on August 26th, 2010%
On the August 25 episode of The Colbert Report, a guest was climatologist Heidi Cullen. Her new book is an examination of possible scenarios of changes in landscape in a warming world.
Buy The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet by Heidi Cullen from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 24th, 2010%
Here’s one that I missed from last week because it was in the first segment, not the main interview. On the August 16th episode of The Colbert Report in a segment on the large number of intelligence agencies and over 800,000 people with Top Secret clearance, Stephen talked with security expert and author Richard Clarke. Clarke is currently Chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, and has been a long time public servant in the State Department across many presidential administrations. His newest book examines the current USA state of preparation for cyber attacks.
Buy Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 24th, 2010%
On the August 23th episode of The Colbert Report the interview guest was journalist and broadcaster Leslie Kean. Her newest book is a serious examination of the phenomenon of UFO sightings.
Buy UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 24th, 2010%
On the August 23 episode of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, the interview guest was former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich. At the time of this writing, Blagojevich was recently convicted of one count of lying to the government in his corruption trial with 23 counts ending in deadlock.
Buy The Governor by Rod Blagojevich from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 20th, 2010%
On the August 19th episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen’s interview guest was mountaineer and author Jon Krakauer. He is most known for his book about his participation in an ill-fated climb of Mt. Everest and his new book is about the life and death of football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Buy Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.
Buy Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on August 19th, 2010%
On the August 18th episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was journalist and professor Thomas French. His newest book is a behind-the-scenes look at the operation of Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa Florida and examination of what the keeping of animals in zoos does to the culture around it.
Buy Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on August 18th, 2010%
On the August 17 episode of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, the interview guest was former professor and congressman Dick Armey. His newest book is a detailed explantion of Tea Party politics.
Buy Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 12th, 2010%
On the August 11th episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was journalist David Finkel. He is a staff writer for The Washington Post and in 2006 won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting he did in Yemen. His new book is an account of the Iraq surge, reported while he was embedded with the 2-16 Rangers battalion.
Buy The Good Soldiers by David Finkel from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 10th, 2010%
I’m not sure how I missed blogging this, but I just caught this episode on the DVR and realized it was never a post so here we go. On the August 2nd episode of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, the interview guest was Mary Roach. Her new book is an examination of the engineering required for a manned mission to Mars. This book does not shy away from the scatalogical (the interview is nothing but!).
Buy Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 6th, 2010%
On August 5th, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Jon interviewed Ambassador Akbar Ahmed. Mr. Ahmed is currently the chair of the Islamic Studies departments at American University in Washington DC. His most recent book is an examination of the lives of American Muslims with research gathered during a year where he and his research team visited more than seventy-five cities across the United States.
Buy Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 5th, 2010%
On the August 4th episode of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, the interview guest was Bruce Henderson. Henderson is a former newspaper reporter, private investigator, magazine writer, and field producer for television news as well as the author of more than twenty books. His most recent book is the story of U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler and his escape from a P.O.W camp behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War.
Buy Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by Bruce Henderson from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 4th, 2010%
On the August 3 episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham. Her newest book is a satirical parody of the First Family as written in their diaries.
Buy The Obama Diaries by Laura Ingraham from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 29th, 2010%
On July 28th, Robert O’Connell was a guest onThe Daily Show With Jon Stewart. O’Connell was an analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center and has recently been a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. His new book is an examination Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C.
Buy The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic by O’Connell, Robert L. from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.
By dave, on July 27th, 2010%
On the July 26th episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen interviewed editor, broadcaster and author Hephzibah Anderson. Her new book is a chronicle of her experience of swearing off sex for a year and the effects that had on her life and her interpersonal relationships.
Buy Chastened; The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex by Hephzibah Anderson from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 26th, 2010%
On the July 26th, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart returned from a few weeks of reruns with guest William Rosen. Rosen was an editor and publisher at several of the large New York publishers, and now is concentrating his time as a full-time author. His newest book is an examination of how steam power helped usher in industrialization and changed the world of technology.
Buy The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by Rosen, William from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 8th, 2010%
On July 8th, Daily Show featured an interview with Marilynne Robinson. Robinson is a novelist and essayist, and her new book is a collection of essays on the subject of science and religion and the role of humanism in that debate.
Buy Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Marilynne Robinson from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
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