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Alice Payne Hackett surveys sixty years of American best sellers, combining annual lists with an account of the reading interests and publishing patterns they reveal. The book distinguishes commercial popularity from literary judgment and asks what widely purchased books can tell us about their readers.
Separate sections organize the material by subjects, years and historical background. Fiction, practical guides, biography and other forms appear alongside changing fashions in the book trade. This complete 1956 reference work retains Frederic G. Melcher’s foreword, the annual records and the full title and author index.