Hardcover Nonfiction

by Walter Lord · Henry Holt and Company

by Philip Wylie · Rinehart and Company

by Don Whitehead · Random House

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall, Inc

by Jim Bishop · Harper and Brothers

by Kathryn Hulme · Little, Brown and Company

by William H. Whyte Jr · Simon & Schuster

by Arthur Bryant · Doubleday and Co. Inc

The Turn of the Tide is build around the personal diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Churchill's closest military advisor. The author, Sir Arthur Bryant, terms Lord Alanbrooke's diaries "the most important of all contemporary personal records of the war". Extensive excerpts from the diaries are woven into the text together with comments on the diaries made by Lord Alanbrooke after the war.

by Diana Barrymore and Gerold Frank · Henry Holt and Company

by Ellin Berlin · Doubleday

Presents the life of Louise Mackay, wife of John Mackay, developer of silver mines in the Comstock Lode.

by Vance Packard · David McKay

by John F. Kennedy · Harper and Brothers

The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American. In this book Kennedy chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes, coming from different junctures in our nation’s history, include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Now, a half-century later, the book remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable national spirit and an unparalleled celebration of that most noble of human virtues. It resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. Profiles in Courage is as Robert Kennedy states in the foreword: “not just stories of the past but a book of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us." Along with vintage photographs and an extensive author biography, this book features Kennedy's correspondence about the writing project, contemporary reviews, a letter from Ernest Hemingway, and two rousing speeches from recipients of the Profile in Courage Award. Introduction by John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, forward by John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert F. Kennedy.

by A.H. Macmillan · Prentice-Hall, Inc

by Alger Hiss · Alfred A. Knopf

by S.J. Perelman · Simon & Schuster

by Gypsy Rose Lee · Harper and Brothers