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A look at Random House, Inc.'s bestselling nonfiction hardcovers across the country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM:
USA Today list dating from June 25, 2009
Barnes & Noble list dating from July 1, 2009
Book Sense list dating from July 2, 2009
New York Times list dating from July 5, 2009
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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $26.00
The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my...
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Renegade
The Making of a President
Written by Richard Wolffe
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize...
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Satchel
The Life and Times of an American Legend
Written by Larry Tye
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.00
He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through...
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The Last Best Hope
Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise
Written by Joe Scarborough
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this groundbreaking book, Joe Scarborough tells Republican Party bosses what they don’t want to hear, explains why Democrats are making matters so much worse, and then shows leaders of both parties the way forward. The Last Best Hope draws on the forgotten genius of conservatism to offer a road map for...
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The Yankee Years
Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen...
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Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance...
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House of Cards
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Written by William D. Cohan
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $27.95
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank: “In my book, they are insolvent.”
This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns...
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The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Written by David Grann
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $27.50
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy...
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Paul Newman
A Life
Written by Shawn Levy
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.99
Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s Fool. But Newman was also...
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