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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of July 4, 1954

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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
Norman Vincent Peale
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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall, Inc

98 wks at #1 · 87 on list

This is a reprint of Norman Vincent Peale's classic self-help tract, read by millions in the last half century who were inspired by Peale's belief that faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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I'LL CRY TOMORROW
Lillian Roth
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I'LL CRY TOMORROW

by Lillian Roth · Frederick Fell, Inc

4 wks on list

Autobiography of the famous actress who became an alcoholic but came back.

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THE REASON WHY
Cecil Woodham-Smith
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THE REASON WHY

by Cecil Woodham-Smith · McGraw-Hill

7 wks on list

Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.

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SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
Heinrich Harrer
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SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET

by Heinrich Harrer · E.P. Dutton

15 wks on list

An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.

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