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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of September 15, 1957

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BARUCH: MY OWN STORY
Bernard M. Baruch

BARUCH: MY OWN STORY

by Bernard M. Baruch · Henry Holt and Company

2 wks on list

Baruch's autobiography relates the best and worst of his stock market experiences, gives a vivid glimpse of the days of the likes of J.P. Morgan and the Guggenheims and tells the details of his investment philosophy.

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SILVER PLATTER
Ellin Berlin
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SILVER PLATTER

by Ellin Berlin · Doubleday

15 wks on list

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

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TAKE MY LIFE
Eddie Cantor

TAKE MY LIFE

by Eddie Cantor · Doubleday

13 wks on list

A retelling, with additional material for the years since 1928, of the popular vaudeville, radio and TV comedian's life previously chronicled in "My life is in your hands."

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THE TURN OF THE TIDE
Arthur Bryant
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THE TURN OF THE TIDE

by Arthur Bryant · Doubleday and Co. Inc

16 wks on list

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.

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THE DOG WHO WOULDN'T BE
Farley Mowat
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THE DOG WHO WOULDN'T BE

by Farley Mowat · Little, Brown and Company

1 wks on list

Farely Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies. Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable. He climbed tress and ladders, rode passenger in an open car wearing goggles and displaying hunting skills that bordered on sheer genius. He was a marvelous dog, worthy of an unusual boy growing up a raw, untamed wilderness. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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