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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of January 22, 1950

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THIS I REMEMBER
Eleanor Roosevelt

THIS I REMEMBER

by Eleanor Roosevelt · Harper

7 wks at #1 · 9 on list
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HOME SWEET ZOO
Clare Barnes
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MY THREE YEARS IN MOSCOW
Walter Bedell Smith

MY THREE YEARS IN MOSCOW

by Walter Bedell Smith · J. B. Lippincott

1 wks on list

An account of three years of the cold war in Russia, as viewed by the former United States ambassador to Moscow, in the period March 1946 to March 1949.

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A GUIDE TO CONFIDENT LIVING
Norman Vincent Peale
Cover of A GUIDE TO CONFIDENT LIVING

A GUIDE TO CONFIDENT LIVING

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall

68 wks on list

"Change your thoughts and change your life". Dr. Norman Vincent Peale demonstrates how you can think your way to success and happiness with his amazing time-tested techniques. Step-by-step, in clear readable language, Dr. Peale shows you how to release your inner powers to achieve confidence and contentment and to open the way to new energy that will actually revitalize your life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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HERE IS NEW YORK
E.B. White
Cover of HERE IS NEW YORK

HERE IS NEW YORK

by E.B. White · Harper and Brothers

1 wks on list

In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”

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W.C. FIELDS
Robert L. Taylor

W.C. FIELDS

by Robert L. Taylor · Doubleday

2 wks on list

A condensation ... appeared in the Saturday evening post.

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