Hardcover Nonfiction

by William Manchester · Harper & Row

by Cornelia Otis Skinner · Houghton Mifflin

by Sam Levenson · Simon & Schuster

The well-known humorist tells of his early life.

by Jess Stearn · Doubleday

THE STORY OF THE PROPHET EDGAR CAYCE.

by Bertrand Russell · Little Brown and Company

by Eric Berne · Grove Press

by Mao Tse-Tung · Foreign Language Press, Peking, Peoples Republic of China

by John Gunther · Harper & Row

by Fred W. Friendly · Random House

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.