The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – Book List
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central is a nightly Emmy and Peabody Award-winning half-hour series hosted by Jon Stewart
As part of the alternative look at news and popular culture Jon Stewart interviews guests about important and sometimes not so important news stories and events of the day.
This book list is an attempt to list all the books, movies etc that Jon mentions during The Daily Show and provide a resource for those of you like me who are enthralled by the interview and promptly forget the name of the book or movie that he has mentioned.
The most recent week of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart mentioned the following ::
Week of September 22, 2008
The Dark Knight arrived with tremendous hype (best superhero movie ever? posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger?), and incredibly, it lives up to all of it. But calling it the best superhero movie ever seems like faint praise, since part of what makes the movie great–in addition to pitch-perfect casting, outstanding writing, and a compelling vision–is that it bypasses the normal fantasy element of the superhero genre and makes it all terrifyingly real.
Bob Schieffer’s America
by Bob Schieffer
With his critically acclaimed bestselling memoir, This Just In, Bob Schieffer proved a natural storyteller, a gifted writer able to capture current affairs, television news—and himself—with remarkable wit and insight. It is a gift he has also been able to bring to his awardwinning commentaries for Face the Nation.
No one had done commentaries for CBS since Eric Sevareid’s retirement in 1977, when, in April 1994, Schieffer decided his show that week on the death of Richard Nixon needed a few closing words to put the subject into context. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive, and he has been doing them ever since.
Bob Schieffer’s America brings together 168 of his best essays, pieces that cover a broad range: from the hard issues of today to the human stories that show us who we are; from politics and presidents and tragedy to the things that touch us, make us laugh, or reveal the small shifts in our culture that sometimes just creep up on us.
Week of September 15, 2008
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
by Barton Gellman
Gellman’s embargoed and highly explosive book, is a work of careful, concrete, and original reporting backed by hundreds of interviews with close Cheney allies as well as rivals, many speaking candidly on the record for the first time. On the signature issues of war and peace, Angler takes readers behind the scenes as Cheney maneuvers for dominance on what he calls the iron issues from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea to executive supremacy, interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects, and domestic espionage.
Week of August 11, 2008
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind
A Sense of Belonging: From Castro’s Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man’s Pursuit of the American Dream
by Mel Martinez
Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
by Philip P. Pan
The full list for The Daily Show in 2008 is available here.