Left, right and write

Half of the team at KCRW's Friday afternoon staple Left, Right & Center have sold new books. Matt Miller, author of The Two Percent Solution, placed The Tyranny of Dead Ideas with Times Books for publication in winter 2009. It will "lay bare the conventional wisdom that prevents business and political leaders from addressing grave threats now looming for American workers and the economy -- and presenting the solutions destined to emerge from the crucible ahead," says the Publisher's Marketplace blurbage. And Robert Scheer, the former Los Angeles Times columnist and current founding editor of Truthdig.com, sold The Pornography of Power: How the Military-Industrial Complex Ruins America and Endangers the World to Twelve.