Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES
The hard-partying macho author Tucker Max is back on the best-seller list with “Hilarity Ensues,” but off the page he’s taken to yoga, psychoanalysis and organic health drinks.
February 26, 2012
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The hard-partying macho author Tucker Max is back on the best-seller list with “Hilarity Ensues,” but off the page he’s taken to yoga, psychoanalysis and organic health drinks.
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
This Week | Last Week | Hardcover Nonfiction | Weeks on List |
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1 | 2 | AMERITOPIA, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $26.99.) A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the history of utopias and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty. | 4 | |
2 | HILARITY ENSUES, by Tucker Max. (Blue Heeler Books, $25.99.) More stories from a life of serial debauchery. | 1 | ||
3 | 1 | AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A member of the Navy Seals discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war. | 6 | |
4 | 3 | STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $35.) A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur who was the visionary of Apple. | 16 | |
5 | 4 | KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt, $28.) The heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. | 20 | |
6 | 5 | QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Crown, $26.) Introverts — one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society. | 3 | |
7 | ONCE UPON A SECRET, by Mimi Alford. (Random House, $25.) A former White House intern recounts her affair with John F. Kennedy. | 1 | ||
8 | * | BRINGING UP BÉBÉ, by Pamela Druckerman. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) An American mother discovers the principles of French parenting. | 1 | |
9 | BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, by Katherine Boo. (Random House, $27.) A journalist reports on families striving for better lives in a Mumbai slum. | 1 | ||
10 | 6 | UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. | 65 | |
11 | 7 | THROUGH MY EYES, by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. (HarperCollins, $26.99.) The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course. | 23 | |
12 | 8 | THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions. | 16 | |
13 | 9 | COMING APART, by Charles Murray. (Crown Forum, $27.) The author of "The Bell Curve" explores the state of white America, 1960-2010. | 2 | |
14 | THE SCIENCE OF YOGA, by William J. Broad. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A science reporter who practices the art himself weighs the risks and rewards. | 1 | ||
15 | ALI IN WONDERLAND, by Ali Wentworth. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) A memoir from the comedian and actress. | 1 | ||
16 | * | ALL THERE IS, by Dave Isay. (Penguin Press, $24.95.) Stories of love and marriage from the oral history project StoryCorps. | 1 | |