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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of May 14, 1967

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EVERYTHING BUT MONEY
Sam Levenson
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EVERYTHING BUT MONEY

by Sam Levenson · Simon & Schuster

34 wks on list

The well-known humorist tells of his early life.

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EDGAR CAYCE
Jess Stearn
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EDGAR CAYCE

by Jess Stearn · Doubleday

10 wks on list

THE STORY OF THE PROPHET EDGAR CAYCE.

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DIVISION STREET: AMERICA
Studs Terkel
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DIVISION STREET: AMERICA

by Studs Terkel · Pantheon

11 wks on list

Life stories, based on personal interviews, of some seventy selected residents of Chicago, Ill. intended to portray changes occurring in the U. S. A. during the past few decades.

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PAPER LION
George Plimpton
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PAPER LION

by George Plimpton · Harper & Row

20 wks on list

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.

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