Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tape recorder or writing with pen on paper or at a computer. The act of writing about our past, says Kate Hays, a Toronto clinical psychologist, offers valuable "self-reflection, exploration, continuity and discovery." Most important, memoirs are true; they tell what happened. Frank McCourt's 1996 best seller Angela's Ashes kindled interest in the memoirs of ordinary people. Says Adam Sexton, dean of New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop: "People read McCourt and think, 'I could do that.'" Maybe everyone won't equal his success, but to your family and friends the story you write will...
...beginning this Monday and ending on Saturday, April 10. Narrated by Peter Jennings, The Century served as the mother lode from which the anchorman's well-received companion volume of the same name was mined. The book, written with Todd Brewster, is perched on the New York Times best-seller list, 11 slots behind The Greatest Generation, a historical tome by another network-news anchor, Tom Brokaw...
...book, and all but the most self-serving of Carson's attackers were backing rapidly toward safer ground. In their ugly campaign to reduce a brave scientist's protest to a matter of public relations, the chemical interests had only increased public awareness. Silent Spring became a runaway best seller, with international reverberations. Nearly 40 years later, it is still regarded as the cornerstone of the new environmentalism. Carson was not a born crusader but an intelligent and dedicated woman who rose heroically to the occasion. She was rightly confident about her facts as well as her ability to present...
...surprisingly, the magic contraceptive bullet was an instant best seller. Within five years, 5 million women were taking it, a number that exploded over the next decade as baby boomers reached sexual maturity. Better formulations were soon developed to minimize the danger of blood clots and other worrisome side effects. But some health risks could not be foreseen, and as the 1980s dawned, bringing with it AIDS and a sharp increase in other sexually transmitted diseases, the smart new sexual freedom that the Pill permitted started to seem not so smart. As a result, the humble condom made a comeback...
...Brief History of Time, by British physicist Stephen Hawking, becomes a surprise best seller...