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Just found out that our book, CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER, just reached the New York Times Bestsellers list, and will be posted in the March 2 edition of the Book Review section.

I'm on my way home from our book tour, first in Virginia, then Southern California, where Johnny and I did a number of book signings and radio and print interviews. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us, especially the crowd at Bay Books in Coronado, California.

Heading off to New York City to do a ton of publicity on a new military memoir , CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER. Hope to see friends and fans at our Book Party (a discussion/booksigning which is going to be taped for C-SPAN’s “Book TV” show) on Monday, Feb. 10th from 7-9 p.m. at the Half King Bar and Restaurant on 505 West 23rd Street in Manhattan.
My co-author Johnny Walker was an Iraqi interpreter working with American forces and especially Navy SEALS, including Chris Kyle, to apprehend Iraqi insurgents and terrorists. Writing this book with Johnny was an amazing and exciting journey, and I’ll always be grateful to Chris Kyle for telling me about Johnny and convincing our editor Peter Hubbard to publish his story – and to Peter for asking me to write it. Kirkus Reviews got it right, calling it “a fiery, insightful memoir” and “a harrowing personal journey of courageous self-empowerment during wartime.”
You can catch us on some of the TV and radio shows Johnny and I will be appearing on starting this weekend through Tuesday:
MSNBC – THE CYCLE
FOX NEWS CHANNEL – HUCKABEE, FOX & FRIENDS
FOX NEWS RADIO – KILMEAD & FRIENDS,
SIRIUS XM – FREEWHEELIN’ ROAD DOG and the MAGGIE LINTON SHOW

I'm reading Bill Bryson's "One Summer" and I just finished August: the Anarchists, which has just enough on Sacco and Vanzetti to make me want to read more about the case. While Bryson pretty obviously thinks they were guilty of murder, his brief description of events points in the other direction.

It’s always been clear that the pair were anarchists, but it’s also clear that they didn’t get anything near a fair trial on the charges of robbery and murder.
I’m wondering if any of the many, many books on the subject deal directly with the fact that neither robbery nor murder of working men was a hallmark of the anarchist movement. (Blowing up buildings and people, with the occasional political assassination thrown in for spice, was a different story.)
Can anyone out there recommend a few good books on the case?