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Article: Korda misses transformation of American readers in best-seller tome.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2002
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Byline: Jerome Weeks
DALLAS_Michael Korda likes having things both ways, which may be a key to writing best sellers: Give readers what they want, even if you contradict yourself.
As the esteemed editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Korda has helped shape any number of blockbusters, and he's even penned a few himself, including "Queenie" and "Power!"
So Korda knows something about moving the merchandise. In his new book, "Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999," he takes a quick look, decade by decade, at what has sold and what all those sales might mean.
Scanning Publishers Weekly's lists of top ...