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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of August 4, 1991

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CHUTZPAH
Alan M. Dershowitz
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CHUTZPAH

by Alan M. Dershowitz · Little, Brown

4 wks at #1 · 7 on list

The well-known attorney discusses what it is like to be Jewish today, examining such issues as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, the role of Jews in the U.S.S.R., and changes in Eastern Europe.

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IRON JOHN
Robert Bly
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IRON JOHN

by Robert Bly · Addison-Wesley

37 wks on list

On the role of the male mentor, the author seeks to discover the truths about masculinity that gets beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.

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WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR PASSPORT PHOTO, IT'S TIME TO GO HOME
Erma Bombeck
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WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR PASSPORT PHOTO, IT'S TIME TO GO HOME

by Erma Bombeck · HarperCollins

2 wks on list

The national #1 bestseller from "the wizard of the ordinary moment . . . always fun to read" (The New York Times Book Review). Bombeck is at her hilarious best in this tour de force of laughs, as she offers advice to world weary travelers. "Classic Bombeck".--Kirkus Reviews.

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TOUJOURS PROVENCE
Peter Mayle
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FIRE IN THE BELLY
Sam Keen
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FIRE IN THE BELLY

by Sam Keen · Bantam

12 wks on list

Offers a guide for men seeking new personal ideals of strength, potency, and warriorship in their lives.

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THE COMMANDERS
Bob Woodward
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THE COMMANDERS

by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster

12 wks on list

Bob Woodward, the best investigative reporter in the country, spent six years examining the CIA using hundreds of inside sources and secret documents to paint a picture of the world's largest espionage apparatus.

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ILLIBERAL EDUCATION
Dinesh D'Souza
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ILLIBERAL EDUCATION

by Dinesh D'Souza · Free Press

11 wks on list

As it "illuminates the crisis of liberal education and offers proposals for reform which deserve full debate" (Morton Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union), "Illiberal Education" "documents how the politics of race and gender in our universities are rapidly eating away traditions of scholarship and reward for individual achievement" (Robert H. Bork). (Education/Teaching)

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