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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of April 15, 1979

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SOPHIA, LIVING AND LOVING
A.E. Hotchner
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SOPHIA, LIVING AND LOVING

by A.E. Hotchner · Morrow

4 wks on list

Traces Sophia Loren's rise from slum urchin of Pozzuoli to reigning queen of the cinema world, highlighting her early poverty, illegitimacy, criminal prosecution for adultery, marriage, and fight to have a child and surveying the triumphs and tribulations of her filmmaking career.

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HOW TO PROSPER DURING THE COMING BAD YEARS
Howard J. Ruff
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HOW TO PROSPER DURING THE COMING BAD YEARS

by Howard J. Ruff · Times Books

7 wks on list

The author prescribes solid, easily understood, easily managed investment plan as hedges against inflation and details and where to acquire them safely, and even how to profit from the decisions when the economy eventually statilizes.

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MOMMIE DEAREST
Christina Crawford
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MOMMIE DEAREST

by Christina Crawford · Morrow

22 wks on list

The fortieth anniversary edition of the "shocking" #1 New York Times bestseller with a bonus story by the author, "Never Got to Say Goodbye" ( Los Angeles Times). When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the façade of Christina's relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford. Christina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate little princess. But at home, her lonely, controlling, even ruthless mother made her life a nightmare. A fierce battle of wills, their relationship could be characterized as an ultimately successful, for Christina, struggle for independence. She endured and survived, becoming the voice of so many other victims who suffered in silence, and giving them the courage to forge a productive life out of chaos. This book features an exclusive introduction by Christina Crawford, rare photographs from her personal collection, revealing material not found in the original manuscript, and her bonus story, "Never Got to Say Goodbye," which attempts to bring a healthy close her traumatic childhood.

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THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM
Christopher Lasch
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THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM

by Christopher Lasch · Norton

4 wks on list

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissim Revisited."

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IN SEARCH OF HISTORY
Theodore H. White

IN SEARCH OF HISTORY

by Theodore H. White · Harper & Row

28 wks on list

The memoirs of a political reporter and foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962.

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THE BRONX ZOO
Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock
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THE BRONX ZOO

by Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock · Crown

1 wks on list

The former "New York Times" bestseller is now available in trade paperback a quarter century after Golenbock's detailed examination of the 1979 New York Yankees World Series championship became hailed as one of the best baseball books written.

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