Best Sellers and Our Times

One day as we sat philosophizing, we discussed the rapid increase in numbers of books published and their influence on the reading public. Since the best sellers reflected those books most read, we thought it would be interesting to try to discover if the books primarily mirrored our times and/or impacted our future. To effect a somewhat unbiased view, we decided to think of ourselves as Martians with no preconceived notions of American society who could relate impartially. This was a difficult task for us and we soon realized that our biases took over. This book which gives some insight into the past fifty years of a sampling of best sellers was researched through the reviews written about the books and compiled in the Book Review Digests. From these we were able to subjectively infer what was happening at the time and what might be implications for the future, giving full reign to our preconceptions and knowledge of the past.Jaffe, Bernette is the author of 'Best Sellers and Our Times' with ISBN 9781418477530 and ISBN 1418477532.