As every publisher knows or thinks he knows, books sell poorly in the summertime, so new books are held off the market until Labor Day, then dumped into bookstores in a glut. This sales philosophy is at least debatableĀe.g., with close to 900 titles scheduled for publication in September alone, a good many are bound to be overlooked by readers. But the first fall outpourings do show what authors have been up to, and this week's list contains something for everybody. A sampling:
Harvard Historian Samuel Eliot Morison has taken a short leave of his...
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