Hardcover Nonfiction

by William Manchester · Harper & Row

by Sam Levenson · Simon & Schuster

The well-known humorist tells of his early life.

by Cornelia Otis Skinner · Houghton Mifflin

by Bertrand Russell · Little Brown and Company

by Jess Stearn · Doubleday

THE STORY OF THE PROPHET EDGAR CAYCE.

by Eric Berne · Grove Press

by Robert Blake · St. Martin's 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 Studs Terkel · Pantheon

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.

by John Gunther · Harper & Row