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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of March 1, 1992

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BACKLASH
Susan Faludi
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BACKLASH

by Susan Faludi · Crown

15 wks on list
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BROTHER EAGLE, SISTER SKY: A Message From Chief Seattle
Susan Jeffers

BROTHER EAGLE, SISTER SKY: A Message From Chief Seattle

by Susan Jeffers · Dial Press

"All races -- the red, black, yellow, and white -- were once believers in the beauty of the world. 'Brother Eagle, Sister Sky' brings to mind the possibility of a world that once was paradise". Jewell Praying Wolf James, Lineal nephew of Chief Seattle.

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THE WORLD IS MY HOME
James A. Michener
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THE WORLD IS MY HOME

by James A. Michener · Random House

11 wks on list

Account of the life and death of the Japanese art of print-making, the men who made it, and the lusty age in which they flourished.

12
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MAUS II
Art Spiegelman
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MAUS II

by Art Spiegelman · Pantheon

10 wks on list

An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont.

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UH-OH
Robert Fulghum
Cover of UH-OH

UH-OH

by Robert Fulghum · Villard

27 wks on list
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UNTO THE SONS
Gay Talese
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UNTO THE SONS

by Gay Talese · Knopf

1 wks on list

"An Italian ROOTS." —The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.

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