Stephen Colbert: Trash talkin’ about the Fall book lineup

From the CBS News Showbuzz:

Star-Studded Book Tour Honors Halberstam
Joan Didion, Seymour Hersh, And Other Pay Tribute To David Halberstam
NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2007

(CBS) This fall’s most star-studded book tour will feature Joan Didion, Seymour Hersh, Doris Kearns Goodwin and others reading coast to coast on behalf of an award-winning author they dearly wish could have discussed his work himself: David Halberstam.

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For those anxious about the economy, the big book will be Alan Greenspan’s “The Age of Turbulence,” for which the former Federal Reserve chair received a reported $8.5 million. For those who seek the country’s true pulse, a Mr. Stephen G. Colbert presents “I Am America (and So Can You).”

“I’m going to crush Greenspan,” the Comedy Central star told The Associated Press. “His publisher made a huge mistake putting out his book at the same time as mine, because he is going to be eating my dust.”

Colbert, incidentally, is now a “Bernanke” man, referring to Greenspan’s successor at the Fed, Ben Bernanke. Asked what Bernanke has that Greenspan doesn’t, Colbert quipped, “A job.”

“He’s helping this president. Greenspan, he chickened out.”

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Others confiding include Steve Martin, Alan Alda, Dorothy Hamill and a bunch of rock stars, including Eric Clapton, Slash, Tom Petty and Rolling Stone Ron Wood, whose self-titled book is perhaps a warm-up for band mate Keith Richards’ planned memoir in 2010.

“All of them will be on my night stand, stacked,” Colbert promised.

And which will be on top?

“Whichever one my drink is resting on.”

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Don’t forget to order your copy of I Am America (And So Can You!), if you haven’t already.

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