Media Heat: Jarhead Swofford

Good Morning America has a closeup with Anthony Swofford, whose Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Scribner, $14, 0743287215) is the basis for the movie of the same name opening on Friday.

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Who needs caffeine? This morning the Early Show features Jerry Lewis, author of Dean and Me: A Love Story (Doubleday, $26.95, 0767920864).

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This morning on the Today Show:

  • Martha Stewart presents the Martha Stewart Baking Handbook (Clarkson Potter, $40, 0307236722).
  • Bode Miller, author of Be Good, Be Fast, Have Fun (Villard, $24.95, 1400062357).

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Today's Diane Rehm Show on WAMU features:

  • John Hope Franklin, who looks at himself and the country in Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (FSG, $25, 0374299447).
  • Senator Barbara Boxer, whose new political thriller is A Time to Run (Chronicle, $24.95, 0811850439).

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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:

  • Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Random House, $24.95, 0375508015).
  • Kent Nerburn, author of Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060513012).
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: 10 minutes of Mike Wallace, author of Between You and Me (Hyperion, $26.95, 1401300294).

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Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show, the day after All Saints' Day: Anne Rice, author of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Knopf, $25.95, 0375412018).

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Yesterday on Fresh Air, more debate on our wars:

  • William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and author of The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny (Encounter Books, $25.95, 1893554694).
  • Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, co-authors of The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right (Times Books, $26, 0805079416).
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