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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of June 16, 1991

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THE COMMANDERS
Bob Woodward
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THE COMMANDERS

by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster

5 wks at #1 · 5 on list

Bob Woodward, the best investigative reporter in the country, spent six years examining the CIA using hundreds of inside sources and secret documents to paint a picture of the world's largest espionage apparatus.

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IRON JOHN
Robert Bly
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IRON JOHN

by Robert Bly · Addison-Wesley

30 wks on list

On the role of the male mentor, the author seeks to discover the truths about masculinity that gets beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.

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IF YOU REALLY LOVED ME
Ann Rule
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IF YOU REALLY LOVED ME

by Ann Rule · Simon & Schuster

3 wks on list

A shocking chronicle of greed, sexual obsession, manipulation, and murder--from the bestselling author of Small Sacrifices. Computer wizard David Brown convinced his own daughter to prove her love by killing his new wife. Brown then collected a large insurance policy and married his dead wife's teenage sister, whom he had secretly taught to perform sex acts since she was eleven years old. Photographs.

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YOU'LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN
Julia Phillips
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YOU'LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN

by Julia Phillips · Random House

12 wks on list

The first woman producer to win a Best Picture Academy Award describes her rise in the motion picture industry and reveals behind-the-scenes gossip about some of Hollywood's hottest stars. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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FIRE IN THE BELLY
Sam Keen
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FIRE IN THE BELLY

by Sam Keen · Bantam

5 wks on list

Offers a guide for men seeking new personal ideals of strength, potency, and warriorship in their lives.

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BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS
Stephen Jay Gould
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BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS

by Stephen Jay Gould · Norton

1 wks on list

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review

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THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE
Alex Kotlowitz
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THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE

by Alex Kotlowitz · Talese/Doubleday

8 wks on list

This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

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ILLIBERAL EDUCATION
Dinesh D'Souza
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ILLIBERAL EDUCATION

by Dinesh D'Souza · Free Press

5 wks on list

As it "illuminates the crisis of liberal education and offers proposals for reform which deserve full debate" (Morton Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union), "Illiberal Education" "documents how the politics of race and gender in our universities are rapidly eating away traditions of scholarship and reward for individual achievement" (Robert H. Bork). (Education/Teaching)

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SLEEPWALKING THROUGH HISTORY
Haynes Johnson
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SLEEPWALKING THROUGH HISTORY

by Haynes Johnson · Norton

11 wks on list

National bestseller: In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and when optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and living case histories, Haynes Johnson captures the drama and tragedy of an era nurtured by greed and a morality that found virtue in not getting caught. "It is morning again in America," Reagan's campaign commercials told us, and for too long we embraced that convenient lie. Indeed, the problems that came to plague us in that decade are with us even more today, as Johnson memorably demonstrates in--his afterword, "Notes on an Era," written especially for this new paperback reissue. This book will remain a signature work of political analysis for years to come.

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