Word: sellerdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honorable Peter Stirling started selling like wildfire in 1897 when rumor identified the chief character as President Cleveland. Alexander Woollcott boosted a short story about a retiring British schoolteacher called Goodbye, Mr. Chips out of the cloistered covers of the Atlantic Monthly and into the hurly-burly of best-sellerdom by announcing over the radio that it had sent him "quietly mad." But Americans, by & large, have read what they felt like reading, neglected many a worthy or highly touted volume. The only thing that U.S. best-sellers indisputably have in common is sales...