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Week of July 12, 1964

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A MOVEABLE FEAST
Ernest Hemingway
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A MOVEABLE FEAST

by Ernest Hemingway · Charles Scribner's Sons

19 wks at #1 · 8 on list

A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various personal accounts by Hemingway and involves many notable figures of the time, such as Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Pascin, Ezra Pound, Evan Shipman, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Hermann von Wedderkop. The work also references the addresses of specific locations such as bars, cafes, and hotels, many of which can still be found in Paris today.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Jim Bishop
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

by Jim Bishop · Random House

18 wks on list

An hour-by-hour record of a typical day in the White House for President Kennedy, his family, and the office and domestic staff.

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A TRIBUTE TO JOHN F. KENNEDY
Pierre Salinger and Sander Vanocur
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A TRIBUTE TO JOHN F. KENNEDY

by Pierre Salinger and Sander Vanocur · Encyclopedia Britannica

3 wks on list

He races the development of JFK's hands-on relationship with the armed forces - closer than any other post war president's - against the backdrop of the Bay of Pigs, through Laos, Vietnam, and the Berlin Wall, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the space program.

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THE NAKED SOCIETY
Vance Packard
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THE NAKED SOCIETY

by Vance Packard · David McKay

14 wks on list

Examines the invasion of privacy in the United States by government, business, and education. Describes surveillance techniques and tools of investigative experts

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THE BAY OF PIGS
Haynes Johnson
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THE BAY OF PIGS

by Haynes Johnson · W.W. Norton and Company

1 wks on list

The commanders of the invasion forces break their silence to reveal the whole truth aboutThe CIASecret plans to countermand White House decisionsFatally poor intelligenceSuperb dedication and training but inadequate planning and executionThe Joint Chiefs of StaffApproval of a suicidal battle plan, disastrous in detailThe Invasion of CubaAn operation that was a combination of individual and unit heroism, of hardship, betrayal, and SNAFU.

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