The People's Almanac

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David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace
Doubleday, 1975 - Reference - 1478 pages
A books of facts and figures on a variety of subjects, including the United States, world history, people, health, war, disasters, the arts, science and technology, honors, religion, and the curious.

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Contents

PLUGGING IN AND SHEDDING LIGHTSPECIAL ARTICLES
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P T Barnum Was Right by Edward A Merlis The MafiaMenace
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lechinsky Dr Freud Visits America by Irving Wallace Upton Sinclair
48
Copyright

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About the author (1975)

Renowned Olympic historian David Wallechinsky is NBC's radio commentator on the Olympics and the author of many best-selling reference books. He has appeared on a number of television shows. He currently splits his time between Santa Monica, California, and the South of France. Irving Wallace was born March 19, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing for various magazines at age 15 and worked as a screenwriter for a number of Hollywood studios---Columbia, Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal, and MGM from 1950 to 1959, then he turned solely to writing books. His first major bestseller was The Chapman Report in 1960, a fictional account of a sexual research team's investigations of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Among other fictional works by Wallace are The Prize and The Word. His meticulously researched fiction often has the flavor of spicy journalism. A great deal of research goes into his novels, which cover a wide variety of subjects, from the presentation of the Nobel Prize to political scenarios. With their recurring dramatic confrontations, his novels lend themselves well to screenplay adaptation, and most of them have been filmed, including The Chapman Report and The Prize. Wallace has also compiled several nonfiction works with his family, including The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, both of which have spawned sequels. Irving Wallace died June 29, 1990 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe People's Almanac
EditorsDavid Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace
Editionillustrated
PublisherDoubleday, 1975
ISBN0385041861, 9780385041867
Length1478 pages
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