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THE WASFI;GTON POST
BOOK WORLD
24-March 1968
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The list below ?la based on reports received weekly from leading book.
nelltrs and wholesalers around the nation. Because all such Information
is approximate, the list should be considered merely an Indication of
current popularity. Books deemed by Book World's editors and critics -
to bo of special literary' social or historic Interest are marked tbes
Week's
Score
2.4
FICTION
Weeks
Listed
GENERAL
Vanished, by Flcte'her Knebel
Intrigue and scandal.on the eve of
a presidential election
Tire Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris
A pop anthropological study of man as primate
Between Parent and Child, by Dr. Haim G. Ginott
14
The Confessions of Nat Turner,
by William Styron
The story of the only effective, sustained revolt in the
22
2 A new approach to talking with children
Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert K. Massie
3`4 The last years of Imperial Russia
27
The Tower of Babel, by Morris West
Tolstoy, by Henri Troyat
tormented Russian novelist
reat
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4-4
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11
Middle East on the brink of the six-day war
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A biograp
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Topaz, by Leon Uris 23
A novel about international diplomatic maneuverings
Christy, by Catherine Marshall
A young schoolteacher in the Tennessee of 1912
Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal
A man and a woman
The President's Plane Is Missing,
7 by Robert J. Serling 13
Adventure and suspense on a routine flight over Arizona
The Exhibitionist, by Henry Sutton,
Show Biz
The Gabriel Hounds, by Mary Stewart
9 A tale of suspense in the Middle East based on the 24
life of Lady Hester Stanhope
10-
The Nice and the Good, by Iris Murdoch
A happy middle-aged married couple
dominate this thriller
8'4
Rickenbacker, by Edward V. Rickenbaeker
The autobiography of World War I's American ace
"Our Crowd," by Stephen Birmingham
How New York's Jewish "One Hundred"
rose to fabulous wealth and financial power
The Way Things Work: An Illustrated
Encyclopedia of Technology
Everything from atomic clocks to zippers
Memoirs 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan
..An account of Kennan's years of diplomacy
Thomas Wolfe, by Andrew Turnbull
A biography of the writer who lived the
great American novel
At EaseI Stories I Tell to Friends,
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
personal, political and military anecdotes
22 '
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