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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of July 22, 1962

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THE ROTHSCHILDS
Frederic Morton
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THE ROTHSCHILDS

by Frederic Morton · Atheneum

17 wks at #1 · 20 on list
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THE GUNS OF AUGUST
Barbara W. Tuchman
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THE GUNS OF AUGUST

by Barbara W. Tuchman · Charles Scribner's Sons

23 wks on list

"More dramtatic than fiction ... THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained ... The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.

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ONE MAN'S FREEDOM
Edward Bennett Williams
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ONE MAN'S FREEDOM

by Edward Bennett Williams · Atheneum

3 wks on list

Includes Williams' opinions on congressional investigations, electronic eavesdropping, the Fifth Amendment, due process, capital punishment, insanity defense, censorship, and the Civil Rights Movement.

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SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL
Helen Gurley Brown
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SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL

by Helen Gurley Brown · Bernard Geis Associates

4 wks on list

Provides single women with advice on such topics as dealing with men, sex, career success, becoming sexy, making money, and staying healthy.

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SIX CRISES
Richard Nixon
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SIX CRISES

by Richard Nixon · Doubleday

16 wks on list

His personal reactions to such political events as the Hiss case and the campaign of 1960. For contents, see Author Catalog.

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THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960
Theodore H. White

THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960

by Theodore H. White · Atheneum

54 wks on list

Analyses the 1960 election when John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States.

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