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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of May 21, 1944

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GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE
Gene Fowler

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

by Gene Fowler · Viking Press

18 wks at #1 · 17 on list

The story, sometimes gay, sometimes sad of the greatest actor of our time, the most flamboyant member of the theatre's royal family, John Barrymore.

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UNDER COVER
John Roy Carlton
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"THAT MAN" IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Frank Kingdon

"THAT MAN" IN THE WHITE HOUSE

by Frank Kingdon · Arco Publishing

3 wks on list

This book was written in preparation for the 1944 U.S. presidential election. It was intended to help readers decide who to put at the helm in that historic year. In the text, the author framed the then upcoming 1944 election against the background of world events to establish its crucial meaning for the struggle of democracy against fascism, Nazism, and Japanese imperialism.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.