NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) On call: a doctor's journey in public service

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents"--

2) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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Haidt, Jonathan

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...

3) The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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Larson, Erik

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES Los Angeles Times “Perhaps no other historian has ever rendered the struggle for Sumter in such authoritative detail as Larson does here.”—The Washington Post “Even history buffs will find much that is new here.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying...

4) What this comedian said will shock you

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Maher, Bill

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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Inspired by the "editorial" he delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time, this hilarious work of commentary about American life speaks exactly to the moment we're in, covering free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, cancel culture, the media, show biz, romance, health and more.

5) The Friday afternoon club: a family memoir

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Dunne, Griffin

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of Dunne and his multigenerational family of larger-than-life characters"-- At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding...

6) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder

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Grann, David

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 61 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

7) The situation room: the inside story of presidents in crisis

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Stephanopoulos, George

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy...

8) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 63 week(s).

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Drawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert presents a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving physical, cognitive, and emotional health.

9) An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-07-07. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.