May 18: HuffPost Books
Area 51: What REALLY Goes On At This Top Secret Military Installation (PHOTOS).
Continue reading...May 18: FoxNews.com, Book Excerpt
Read an excerpt from Area 51, Chapter Four, “Seeds of a Conspiracy” in the Military Tech section of FoxNews.com.
Continue reading...May 18: CNN American Morning
“Area 51 has captured the American imagination for decades. In her new book ‘Area 51,’ author Annie Jacobsen draws on recently declassified documents and interviews with those who lived and served on America’s top secret military base to reveal the truth about Area 51. CNN’s American Morning speaks with the…
Continue reading...May 17: Jon Stewart “Read this book from page 1. It will blow your mind!”
If you didn’t catch Annie Jacobsen on Comedy Central’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart late night, last night, it rebroadcasts on May 18th, prime time.
Continue reading...May 17: At NPR Area 51 is “Most Popular”
Annie Jacobsen’s interview with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross is the #2 “Most Popular” item at NPR.
Continue reading...May 17: NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Fresh Air is one of America’s most popular public radio programs, with nearly 4.5 million listeners tuning in each week. Listen to Annie Jacobsen discuss her new book today on NPR, or download the podcast of the program available at the Fresh Air Website or through through iTunes.
Continue reading...May 16: Publishers Weekly: “A cross between The Right Stuff and The X Files.”
“A cross between The Right Stuff and The X Files, her absorbing history of the site shows us brilliant engineering, harrowing test-flights and crashes, paranoid security protocols, and vicious Air Force-vs.-CIA turf battles.”
Continue reading...May 16: New York Times applauds book, calls it “cauldron-stirring.”
BOOKS OF THE TIMES ‘Area 51’ By ANNIE JACOBSEN, Reviewed by JANET MASLIN. Annie Jacobsen’s exhaustively researched book asserts that its title subject was a cold war site, not a home to little green men. At the start of “Area 51,” Annie Jacobsen’s cauldron-stirring book about America’s most mysterious military installation, Ms. Jacobsen…
Continue reading...May 15: New York Post: “Behind the Curtain of the United States’ most secretive military base, Area 51.”
The NY Post reprints Jacobsen’s Los Angeles Times Magazine article from 2009. The Post’s editors ask, why is it called Area 51? and write: “Area 51 has gone by many names. It was called ‘Groom Lake’ because of the dry lake bed there; ‘Watertown,’ after CIA Director Allen Dulles’ birthplace…
Continue reading...May 13: The Atlantic Wire: Jacobsen’s book is “mind-boggling”
“Annie Jacobsen, the author of an upcoming book on Area 51 and the so-called ‘Roswell Incident.’ According to The Telegraph, Jacobsen puts forth a radical theory about what really happened in New Mexico, one simultaneously both more mind-boggling and more believable than any number of theories about aliens…” Read it…
Continue reading...May 13: In Newsweek/Daily Beast, Annie Jacobsen explains how she got the scoop
The investigative journalist explains how she uncovered the real story in “The Truth About Area 51 Revealed in Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen.”
Continue reading...May 13: Exclusive! Book Excerpt at Newsweek/Daily Beast
In this exclusive excerpt from Annie Jacobsen’s new book, read about a catastrophic “dirty bomb” test at Area 51 — today in The Daily Beast. And you thought the meltdown at the Japanese nuclear reactor was scary?
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National Media:
May 13: Exclusive! Newsweek/Daily Beast
May 13: The Atlantic Wire: Quote of the Day
May 16: New York Times, Review
May 16: Publishers Weekly, Review
May 17: NPR Fresh Air
May 17: Comedy Central Daily Show
May 18: Bloomberg, Review
May 18: CNN American Morning
May 18: CBS Radio Weekend Round Up
May 19: MSNBC-TV Morning Joe
May 19: Fox News Radio, Alan Colmes Show
May 20: Fox News Happening Now
May 21: Fox News, Fox & Friends
May 22: NatGeo Documentary, "Area 51 Declassified," Nat Geo Channel Premiere
May 23: Popular Mechanics
May 24: Slate Magazines
May 25: io9
May 26: NPR Will-AM
May 27: NPR Nevada Public Radio
May 29: Coast to Coast AM
May 29: New York Times, Sunday Book Review
May 30: Los Angeles Times, Review
June 1: Westwood One Jim Bohannon Show
June 1: Jalopnik
June 2: NPR Radio West
June 2: Science Fantastic with Michio Kaku
June 2: America in the Morning Radio
June 3: The Michael Medved Show
June 3: Kirkus Book Reviews
June 3: The Week Magazine
June 4: WABC Radio with John Batchelor
June 5: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
June 5: New York Times Best Sellers List
June 5: Wall Street Journal Spotlight
June 8: Slate Magazine
June 9: Democracy Now
June 9: USA Today Best-Selling Books
June 12: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
June 12: New York Times Best Sellers List
June 13: The Mancow Radio Experience
June 13: CBS The Early Show
June 13: The Washington Post
June 16: USA Today Best-Selling Books
June 19: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
June 19: New York Times Best Sellers List
June 22: MSNBC
June 24: Publishers Weekly, PW Daily
June 24: PBS Tavis Smiley
June 26: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
June 26: New York Times Best Sellers List
June 27: Wall Street Journal Radio Network
June 28: International Business Times
June 29: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
July 1: New York Times June's Political Best Sellers
July 3: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
July 3: New York Times Best Sellers List
July 5: The Independent, UK
July 5: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
July 6: The Glenn Beck Show
July 10: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
July 10: New York Times Best Sellers List
July 13: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
July 17: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
July 17: New York Times Best Sellers List
July 19: Google Author Series
July 20: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
July 24: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
July 24: New York Times Best Sellers List
July 27: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
July 31: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
July 31: New York Times Best Sellers List
Aug 1: Maholo Author Series
Aug 3: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
Aug 5: New York Times July's Political Best Sellers
Aug 7: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
Aug 7: New York Times Best Sellers List
Aug 8: NY Daily News
Aug 10: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
Aug 14: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
Aug 14: New York Times Best Sellers List (Extended List)
Aug 17: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List
Aug 21: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List (Extended List)
Aug 21: New York Times Best Sellers List (Extended List)
Aug 24: Indie Bound National Bestsellers List (Extended List)
Aug 28: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List (Extended List)
Aug 28: New York Times Best Sellers List (Extended List)
Aug 30: PRI's The World, BBC Moscow
Sept 4: New York Times Best Sellers List (Extended List)
Nov 16: Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List (Extended List)
Dec 7: National Public Radio
Jan 12, 2012: Il Venerdi di Republica Magazine (Cover Story)
May 11, 2012: NPR Best Paperbacks of the Wee
May 13, 2012 Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
Events and Book Signings:
May 18: Washington, DC/Spy Museum
May 23: San Francisco/Commonwealth Club
May 24: Dallas, TX/World Affairs Council
May 25: Los Angeles, CA/Google, Lunch Event
May 26: Las Vegas, NV/Paseo Verde Library
June 2: Santa Monica Public Library
July 26: Los Angeles Public Library, Mark Taper Auditorium
July 30: Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA
Sept 26: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ, Daytona Beach, FLA
Oct 2: Caltech Univ, Pasadena, CA
***See the National Geographic Channel documentary based on several chapters in Jacobsen's book***