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Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America__ flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eager to accept integration, feminism, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, and the drug culture_ or to shoulder the blame for the existence of these problems_ but they were certainly willing to read about them.
Michael Korda Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999
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Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America__ flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eager to accept integration, feminism, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, and the drug culture_ or to shoulder the blame for the existence of these problems_ but they were certainly willing to read about them.
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Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999

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