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Dr. Nortin Hadler’s Worried Sick prescribes an antidote for overmedicalized America.
Dr. Nortin Hadler's Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America was featured in the Science Times section of The New York Times on June 24. The book, already in its second printing, has received enthusiastic reviews from The New England Journal of Medicine, Library Journal, and Foreword Magazine. XM radio listeners can catch Dr. Hadler on "Dr. Oz's Oprah & Friends" in July, as well as on XM's "Reach MD" in August.
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On July 8, Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop will host a virtual signing with Rod Andrew, author of Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer. Gary Gallagher, author of Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War and Russell McClintock, author of Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession, have also appeared before the shop's virtual audience. Visit the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop for more information on virtual book signings.
"Hotter and slicker than a politician's handshake at a pig pickin' in July." That's how Raleigh News and Observer reviewer Marcy Smith described Rob Christensen's Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina, in a roundup of summer reading picks. Viewers of UNC-TV's "North Carolina Bookwatch" can find out why by tuning in to Christensen's conversation with D.G. Martin on Friday, July 18, and Sunday, July 20.
Southern Living's July issue announced the release of The North Carolina Birding Trail: Coastal Plain Trail Guide and The Piedmont Trail Guide, both of which promise to "lead both amateur and experienced birdwatchers through the high-flying terrain of North Carolina." Watch for The Mountains Trail Guide, available by the summer of 2009.
Melton McLaurin, author of The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines, will be interviewed on "The Greater Voice" with Susan Benjamin, which airs on the VoiceAmerica Radio Network.
Karey Harwood, author of The Infertility Treadmill: Feminist Ethics, Personal Choice, and the Use of Reproductive Technologies, was a panelist on WUNC's "The State of Things" in a program inspired by her book.
The Wall Street Journal said that Rod Andrew's Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer "describes Hampton's wartime experience with special vividness" and The Washington Times notes that "Andrew has succeeded in producing a Hampton biography that is not only definitive, but also entertaining."
Michael Taube reviewed Gary Gallagher's Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War, in The Weekly Standard, calling it "A superb analysis of a war that defined a nation—but that has lost its definition thanks to liberal amounts of creative license afforded to the celluloid and pen-and-ink crowds."
Nell Wise Wechter's beloved classic Taffy of Torpedo Junction is being introduced to a new generation of readers through serialization in the "Newspapers in Education" program. The book tells the thrilling story of a young girl who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating in Hatteras Island, North Carolina, during World War II. Learn more about Taffy and hear an audio clip from the book.
Taffymania continues with talks by the real-life inspiration for the spunky heroine, Carol Dillon, every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. during July, and August at Chicamacomico life-saving station historic site in Rodanthe, NC.
It's hurricane season! Visit hurricane historian Jay Barnes's website.
