Word: glibbest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kings & Presidents. The year's outstanding biography was Englishwoman Cecil Woodham-Smith's story of the dedicated Florence Nightingale. The glibbest was Hesketh Pearson's quick look at Disraeli in Dizzy. The most unabashedly sensational was Ethel Waters' crudely effective His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Onetime Brigadier Desmond Young wrote an uncritically sympathetic life of his wartime enemy in Rommel, and sales proved that the Afrika Korps' brilliant commander still held a place in U.S. imagination. The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering was a much better book than Rommel, but fat Hermann seemed...