Lists hundreds of books that have made the famous list, and offers facts about the publishing industry, authors, and the list itself

Compiles lists of and commentary on best-selling books during each of the eighty years covered and briefly recounts the history of best sellers

Analyzes the best-sellers published between 1945 and 1975 to determine how American dreams of success have changed, and discusses the issues these novels raise about modern life

Product Description: The Publishers Weekly bestseller list started on May 3, 1919; the New York Times Book Review list began on October 6, 1935. Though the lists do not always reflect the best in American publishing, they do offer a myriad of insights into popular culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Using the annual hardcover best seller lists from 'The Bookman' and then 'Publishers Weekly,' examines twentieth-century American social, cultural, and historical trends through the lens of popular literature. (view table of contents)

Product Description: With reference to the works of contemporary fiction writers such as Judith Krantz and Barbara Taylor Bradford, Resa Dudovitz presents an analysis of women's best-sellers and the present-day myth of the superwoman.

Product Description: William Darby gives us a comprehensive and (mostly) sympathetic reading of over fifty novels and a few movies from the 1950s. He examines titles such as Mandingo, The Invisible Man, I the Jury, Catcher in the Rye, Battle Cry, The Caine Mutiny, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, The Manchurian Candidate, Hawaii, The Bramble Bush, Peyton Place, Ten North Frederick, A Stone for Danny Fisher, The Bad Seed, Not as a Stranger, The Blackboard Jungle, From Here to Eternity, and Compulsion...read more

Product Description: Book by Beacham, Walton

Product Description: In the twentieth century Marxism challenged laissez-faire economics, psychoanalysis reinterpreted the processes of thought, and evolution discredited the idea of creation. These changes profoundly affected American Protestantism. Ferré examines the belief system that underlies what middle-class Protestants chose to read...read more