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Week of November 8, 1964

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REMINISCENCES
Douglas MacArthur
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REMINISCENCES

by Douglas MacArthur · McGraw-Hill

9 wks at #1 · 5 on list

These reminiscences are neither history, biography nor a diary. They are a recollection of events, refreshment of historical records made under my direction and supervision.

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A MOVEABLE FEAST
Ernest Hemingway
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A MOVEABLE FEAST

by Ernest Hemingway · Charles Scribner's Sons

25 wks 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 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

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