Alistair Horne media blitz

It appears that Amazon.com is temporarily out of stock of A Savage War of Peace. As luck would have it, the NYRB store still has copies in stock. It looks like copies may still be ordered from Powell's. Booksense is also a good source for locating local bookshops. And the big chains should have plenty of copies in hand as well.

1/17/07: Maureen Dowd column:

Mr. Horne recalled that Dr. Kissinger told him: “The president’s one of my best students. He reads all the books I send him.” The author asked the president’s foreign affairs adviser if W. ever wrote any essays on the books. “Henry just laughed,” Mr. Horne said.

1/17/07: Interview with Mr. Horne on PRI's The World
1/14/07: President Bush hints that he's reading A Savage War on 60 Minutes. I found this bit of the transcript on a Marxist listserve:

PELLEY: (Voiceover) Mr. Bush, realizing he'd never had a TV camera on-board, urged us to catch the Washington Monument going by. He'd been reading a book on the history of the city and pointed out landmarks along Pennsylvania Avenue. He told us he's reading another book, a historical parallel to Iraq about France's long, losing fight against insurgents in Algeria. Henry Kissinger had recommended it. Within minutes, we had reached Andrews Air Force Base and Air Force One.

1/10/07: Sir Alistair appears on a panel entitled "How Do You Leave a Country?" that aired on Christopher Lydon's show Open Source

10/31/06: Leonard Lopate interviews Alistair Horne