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...following is a compilation of bestsellers reported by Barnes & Noble, the Harvard Cooperative Society, the Paperback Booksmith and Phillips Book Store...
...should become one of the best-thumbed books since the Bible. The New York Times printed the entire text in 48 pages of this Monday's newspaper; the Times also joined with Bantam Books to publish a $1 paperback edition, hopes to rush out the first of 500,000 copies by this Wednesday. The Associated Press will publish a hard-cover edition to retail at $1.50, and Doubleday & Co. plans within a month to get out a hardcover edition that will retail for about $4. "To any objective observer, this report will settle the matter," said Hale Boggs. "But anyone...
...PLACE, by William Brammer. Hardly noticed when it was first published in 1961, this first novel by a sometime aide to Lyndon Johnson has become a top-selling paperback and a political conversation piece. Deservedly, for despite fictional camouflage it is an adroitly written roman a clef about L.B.J. in the days when he was ringmaster of the U.S. Senate...
Born. To Harold Robbins, 48, best-selling author of paperback panty raids (The Carpetbaggers), and Grace Robbins, fortyish, his third or possibly his fourth wife ("It doesn't make any difference," he says): their first child, a daughter; in Cannes, France...
...amused by the politickin', manipulatin', connivin' chief character who was all too plainly modeled after himself. He told Bill Brammer, 35-a sometime speechwriter for Johnson when he was a Senator-that the book was not worth reading. Now that the novel is out in paperback, the President might take another look at it. It is a lampoon on Texas politics, but the book's L.B.J. character, Governor Arthur Fenstemaker, is warmly portrayed. Fenstemaker is a little cruder than the real-life Lyndon, maybe kindlier; and he stands head, shoulders and ten-gallon hat above...