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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of May 9, 1954

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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
Norman Vincent Peale
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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall, Inc

98 wks at #1 · 79 on list

This is a reprint of Norman Vincent Peale's classic self-help tract, read by millions in the last half century who were inspired by Peale's belief that faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
Heinrich Harrer
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SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET

by Heinrich Harrer · E.P. Dutton

8 wks on list

An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.

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THE TAFT STORY
William S. White
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THE TAFT STORY

by William S. White · Harper & Row

2 wks on list

The story of the Ohio senator.

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THE TWENTY-YEAR REVOLUTION
Chesly Manly
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THE TWENTY-YEAR REVOLUTION

by Chesly Manly · Henry Regnery Company

7 wks on list

In The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower, which was first published in 1954, author Chesly Manly, the United Nations Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, leaves practically no part of government operation untouched. He covers the advent of the New Deal; the first year of the Eisenhower administration, with revelations of "diplomatic relations with an implacable enemy; subversion of national policies by collectivist legal and economic 'experts'; willful toleration of communist infiltration into the government; active encouragement of such infiltration into the labor unions", and wilful toleration of communist infiltration into the government to active encouragement of such infiltration into the labor unions and "reliance upon the Communists for political support". A gripping read.

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