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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of April 19, 1987

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A SEASON ON THE BRINK
John Feinstein
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A SEASON ON THE BRINK

by John Feinstein · Macmillan

14 wks at #1 · 16 on list

Recounts the 1985-1986 basketball season at Indiana University, describes the complex personality of coach Bob Knight, and examines the coaching methods which make him one of the best of all time

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THE FATAL SHORE
Robert Hughes
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THE FATAL SHORE

by Robert Hughes · Knopf

10 wks on list

An internationally bestselling and controversial study of the convict origins of the British settlement of Australia. Australian-born author is an internationally respected art critic whose other works include 'The Shock of the New' and 'Barcelona'.

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THE FITZGERALDS AND THE KENNEDYS
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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THE FITZGERALDS AND THE KENNEDYS

by Doris Kearns Goodwin · Simon & Schuster

9 wks on list

The noted biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson has written the story of three generations of the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, using records and letters never before made public to present a volume filled with new insights and information about two of America's most powerful families. Black-and-white photographs.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AMERICA
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AMERICA

by · Collins

The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we are easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing? I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century." Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, he weaves together stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream. Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, he traces the changes in modern life, in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more, that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, he gives us a book that is a vision of hopefulness in an age of diminished expectations.

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FATHERHOOD
Bill Cosby
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FATHERHOOD

by Bill Cosby · Dolphin/ Doubleday

50 wks on list

Bill Cosby's bestselling warm and humorous look at fatherhood now includes a warm Father's Day wish--a special card for "dear ol' dad". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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HOLD ON, MR. PRESIDENT!
Sam Donaldson
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HOLD ON, MR. PRESIDENT!

by Sam Donaldson · Random House

The nation's most celebrated and outspoken White House correspondent writes with candor, humor, and wisdom about covering Presidents, his colleagues at ABC News and the other networks, and the role of television news in the U.S. today. 16 pages of photographs.

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YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE!
Dr. Seuss
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YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE!

by Dr. Seuss · Random House

Dr. Seuss's elderly Everyman travels, in rhyme and illustrations, along the Golden Years Clinic's assembly line of medical tests and questions, meeting Miss Becker of Stethescope Row, Dr. Pollen, Dietician Van Eiffel, and others

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LOVE, MEDICINE & MIRACLES
Bernie S. Siegel
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LOVE, MEDICINE & MIRACLES

by Bernie S. Siegel · Harper & Row

2 wks on list

Surgeon Bernie S. Siegel gives an inspirational, first-hand account of how patients can participate in their own recovery. Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.

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THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
Jane Wagner
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THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

by Jane Wagner · Harper & Row

14 wks on list

This side-splitting yet dramatic tour-de-force features a dazzling parade of characters immediately familiar to the coast-to-coast Wagner/Tomlin fans. Enhanced with remarkable onstage photographs of Tomlin. 78 halftones. (Poetry/Plays)

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