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Tis the season for TV personalities-turned-authors! Today's gift guide looks at two: Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert and CNN Headline News personality Glenn Beck.
Colbert sparks laughter with this debut novel, an ode to truthiness, I Am America (And So Can You!). As a cable show (faux) right-wing pundit, Colbert takes satire to a new level. This book may not, however, be as funny to the cable-deprived as to a Colbert Report regular; Colbert's success rests as much on his on facial expressions as his dry wit. The publisher reports that Colbert dictated the book over a three-day weekend.
On a more serious note, the book also contains the text of Colbert's infamous 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner speech. Before launching The Colbert Report, he was a writer and correspondent on Comedy Central's Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show as well as a successful screenwriter.
Beck turns his attention to pressing issues domestically and abroad, in An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems. As the title implies, he kicks off the book with a tribute (of sorts) to former Vice President Al Gore and climate change. Other topics include Islam, education, immigration, mimimum wage: basic conservative topics. You'll either love it or hate it -- there is no in-between.
Buy Colbert's book! In-Print Editions: Hardcover; Kindle Book; Audio -- CD (Abridged Audiobook) or Amazon Download
Buy Beck's book! In-Print Editions: Hardcover; Kindle Book; Audio -- CD (Abridged Audiobook)