Hardcover Nonfiction

by Sam Levenson · Simon & Schuster

The well-known humorist tells of his early life.

by Cornelia Otis Skinner · Houghton Mifflin

by Eric Berne · Grove Press

by George Plimpton · Harper & Row

In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions’ pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experience of a month practising and living with the team – getting to know the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks, taking behind the scenes snaps and capturing a host of American football rites and rituals. Plimpton might not have made it as a quarterback, but fifty years after its first publication, Paper Lion remains one of the most insightful and entertaining classics of sports literature.

by Louis Nizer · Doubleday

by John Gunther · Harper & Row

by Jess Stearn · Doubleday

THE STORY OF THE PROPHET EDGAR CAYCE.

by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr · Houghton Mifflin

An analysis of our present dilemma and a series of suggestions for a political rather than a military solution. The author assesses the wider implications of the Russo-Chinese split for American policy and the potential impact of the war in Vietnam on civil freedom in the U.S.

by Gerold Frank · New American Library

The New York Times–bestselling account of the serial killer's rampage and the ensuing manhunt. Now a Hulu true crime thriller starring Keira Knightley. On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother's apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. When he pushed his way inside, Juris found Anna Slesers dead on the kitchen floor, the cord of her housecoat knotted tightly around her neck. Over the next two years, twelve more bodies were discovered in and around Boston: all women, all sexually assaulted, and all strangled. None of the victims exhibited any signs of struggle, nothing was stolen from their homes, and there were no signs of forcible entry. The police could find no discernable motive or clues. Who was this madman? How was he entering women's homes? And what insanity was driving him? Drawn from hundreds of hours of personal interviews, as well as police, medical, and court documentation, this is a grisly, horrifying, and meticulously researched account of Albert DeSalvo—an American serial killer on par with Jack the Ripper.

by Mark Lane · Holt, Rinehart and Winston