Best Seller: A Century of America's Favorite Books

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2019
Author
Author: Robert McParland
Language
English
Number of Pages
305 pp.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
City
Lanham, MD
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Region
United States
Chronological Period
1900-1949
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9781538109991
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Contents: 

  • Reaching the top of the shelf: discovering a century of bestsellers
  • Birth of the bestseller: The 1890s to the 1930s
  • The 1940s: All the books fit to sell
  • The 1950s: Cold War anxiety: from Holden Caulfield to James Bond
  • The 1960s: New frontiers: from Harper Lee to Kurt Vonnegut
  • The 1970s: The age of narcissism
  • The 1980s: The rise of the superstar author
  • The 1990s: Means of ascent: publisher consolidation, superstores, and the Internet
  • The 2000s: E-books and the new millennium
  • The 2010s: James Patterson Inc. and the soul of America