Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for English Historian Arnold J. Toynbee's massive summation of the world's experience, which is a best-seller in a one-volume condensation, most of the year's non-fiction was written by men stranded on shallow isles of postwar political journalism-and how often and how quickly the fleets of history passed them by! Others, more aware of present dilemmas tried to find answers in the American past. The year saw an extraordinary number of new books on American history, some of them solid scholarly achievements...
...year in which the flight into the past was accelerated in fiction and nonfiction. But current anxieties broke through. A book called Peace of Mind was the biggest non-fiction seller of the year, a reflection not so much of its own merit as of the numbers of Americans seeking the assurances and affirmations of religion...
...year in which lovers of history and biography could add a few books to their libraries, but good fiction, poetry and criticism were even rarer than in arid 1946. There was no U.S. novel as good as last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning All the King's Men, no new poet as gifted as Robert Lowell, whose Lord Weary's Castle had also won a Pulitzer Prize. Many publishers said frankly that they couldn't take chances with untried talent: their production costs were 75% higher than in 1941, and they needed surefire books. Quality, which...
...FICTION...
Worst off was fiction...