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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of June 30, 1996

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BAD AS I WANNA BE
Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown
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BAD AS I WANNA BE

by Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown · Delacorte Press

8 wks at #1 · 7 on list

Autobiography from one of the most popular and eccentric basketballers currently playing in the US.

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OUTRAGE
Vincent Bugliosi
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OUTRAGE

by Vincent Bugliosi · Norton

2 wks on list

A best-selling account by the author of Helter Skelter outlines the main reasons O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, from the jury's makeup to the incompetence of the prosecutors. Reprint.

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I LIVED TO TELL IT ALL
George Jones with Tom Carter
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I LIVED TO TELL IT ALL

by George Jones with Tom Carter · Villard

6 wks on list

Finally, George Jones opens up and writes candidly and intimately about his failures and successes, his losses and loves.

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BLOOD SPORT
James B. Stewart
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BLOOD SPORT

by James B. Stewart · Simon & Schuster

14 wks on list

Drawing on scores of interviews with highly placed sources, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter--author of Den of Thieves and The Prosecutors--cuts through the rumors and innuendos surrounding the First Family to get to the facts about the Whitewater land deal, Vince Foster's suicide, and other alleged scandals plaguing the Clinton White House.

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HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?!
Laura Schlessinger
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HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?!

by Laura Schlessinger · HarperCollins

In her hard-hitting new book, Dr. Laura Schlessinger delivers a witty, wise, and workable moral philosophy - based on the principle of personal responsibility. How Could You Do That?! argues passionately against the self-indulgent subjective morality used in our society to excuse all sorts of bad behavior. In her lively, pull-no-punches style, Dr. Laura takes on the moral dilemmas of our time: from the mindless pursuit of pleasure and immediate gratification to taking the easy way out when those actions produce ugly or uncomfortable life-altering consequences. She demonstrates in no uncertain terms that personal values are never someone else's responsibility, but our own, and why choosing not to honor them actually compounds unhappiness. Finally, she explains that by disciplining self-indulgence and rising above temptation we can discover the infinite pleasures, the true happiness, of the moral high ground.

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THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Thomas Moore
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THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF EVERYDAY LIFE

by Thomas Moore · HarperCollins

3 wks on list

When he introduced the idea that soul is an essential ingredient of life, the author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates changed the way millions of readers think about psychology and spirituality. Now, with The Reenchantment of Everyday Life, Moore takes another radical step, applying care of the soul to our surroundings and the concrete particulars of how we live.

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HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen · Knopf

11 wks on list

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. "Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer

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