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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of May 15, 1960

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I KID YOU NOT
Jack Paar
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I KID YOU NOT

by Jack Paar · Little, Brown and Company

4 wks on list

Includes autobiographical incidents, anecdotes, and sketches of other TV personalities.

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ACT ONE
Moss Hart
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ACT ONE

by Moss Hart · Random House

33 wks on list
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MEYER BERGER'S NEW YORK
Meyer Berger
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MEYER BERGER'S NEW YORK

by Meyer Berger · Random House

4 wks on list

Meyer ("Mike") Berger was one of the greatest journalists of this century. A reporter and columnist for The New York Times for thirty years, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his account of the murder of thirteen people by a deranged war veteran in Camden, New Jersey. Berger is best known for his "About New York" column, which appeared regularly in the Times from 1939 to 1940 and from 1953 until his death in 1959. Through lovingly detailed snapshots of ordinary New Yorkers and far corners of the city, Berger's writing deeply influenced the next generation of writers, including Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe. Originally published in 1960 and long out of print, Meyer Berger's New York is a rich collection of extraordinary journalism, selected by Berger himself, which captures the buzz, bravado, and heartbreak of New York in the fifties in the words of the best-loved reporter of his time. "Mike Berger was one of the great reporters of our day . . . he was a master of the color story, the descriptive narrative of sights and sounds-of a parade, an eclipse, a homicidal maniac running amok . . . or just a thunderstorm that broke a summer heat wave . . . ."-The New York Times, obituary, February 6, 1959 "Dip into Meyer Berger's New York, at any point, and you will find things you never knew or dreamed of knowing. . . . It has a heart, a soul, and a beauty all its own." -Phillip Hamburger, The New York Times Book Review

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THE EDGE OF DAY
Laurie Lee
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THE EDGE OF DAY

by Laurie Lee · William Morrow and Company

1 wks on list

The author writes of his childhood in a small Cotswold village, of his mother, his sisters, his boyhood companions, and his school days.

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