Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 6, 1959

How I TURNED $1,000 INTO A MILLION IN REAL ESTATE—IN MY SPARE TIME (497 pp.)—William Nickerson—Simon & Schuster ($4.95).

No book has enlarged the fantasy life of Americans more dramatically this season than an ex-telephone company engineer's do-it-yourself account of How I Turned $1,000 into a Million in Real Estate—in My Spare Time. More than 100,000 readers have broken open this fortune cookie, and it is currently being snapped up at the rate of 10,000 copies a week. To back up its brilliant come-on title, the book offers would-be spare-time millionaires a sophisticated circus barker's spiel plus evangelistic free-enterprise fervor, shovelfuls of...

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