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#	Answer	Count	Sample Clue
1	Carl Sagan	6	In 1973 this astronomer published his 1st book for general readership, "The Cosmic Connection"
2	Mount Everest	4	"Into Thin Air" was Jon Krakauer's personal account of a disaster during a summit attempt of this mountain
3	the Civil War	3	Shelby Foote is best known for his 3-volume history of this conflict
4	Silent Spring	3	Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing"
5	Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus	3	In 1992 John Gray published this out-of-this-world guide to understanding the opposite sex
6	Chicken Soup	3	In a series of inspirational books, this dish precedes "for the Bride's Soul" & "for the Pet Lover's Soul"
7	A Brief History of Time	3	One chapter in this book by Stephen Hawking is "The Origin & Fate of the Universe"
8	Churchill	3	In 1958 this former British P.M. completed a four-volume "History of the English-Speaking Peoples"
9	Wounded Knee	2	Dee Brown told how the expansion of the American West caused the slaughter of indigenous people in "Bury My Heart at" this place
10	Thomas Wolfe	2	David Herbert Donald won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for "Look Homeward: A Life of" this author
11	Theodore White	2	For his "The Making of the President 1960" he received the first Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
12	the sinking of the Titanic	2	Based on interviews with more than 50 survivors, Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember" details this tragedy
13	The Perfect Storm	2	Later a major motion picture, it was Sebastian Junger's "True Story of Men Against the Sea"
14	the Lusitania	2	"Dead Wake", about the 1915 sinking of this ship by a U-boat, appeared in 2015
15	the Dalai Lama	2	In "My Spiritual Journey", this exiled leader says, "I am no one special...I am just a human being"
16	the Cuban Missile Crisis	2	Robert Kennedy's book "Thirteen Days: A Memoir of" this "Crisis" was published posthumously in 1969
17	Studs Terkel	2	This journalist gave us "Hard Times" in 1970, "The Good War" in 1984 & "Race" in 1992
18	Profiles in Courage	2	In the 1960s both an inaugural edition & a memorial edition of this book by JFK were bestsellers
19	Nixon	2	( Hi. I'm Bob Woodward.) In 1976 Carl Bernstein & I published "The Final Days" about his last days in office
20	Mind	2	Deepak Chopra became a household name after publishing "Ageless Body, Timeless" this
21	Margaret Mead	2	She followed "Coming of Age in Samoa" with "Growing Up in New Guinea"
22	John Steinbeck	2	"Working Days" is a compilation of the journals he kept while writing "The Grapes of Wrath"
23	John Reed	2	"Ten Days That Shook The World" was his last book published during his lifetime
24	Joan Didion	2	Her "Blue Nights" tells of coping with the death of her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne
25	Jane Goodall	2	Don't laugh, but this expert on chimpanzees wrote a 1971 book about hyenas called "Innocent Killers"
26	J. Edgar Hoover	2	"Official and Confidential" is a controversial book about "The Secret Life of" this FBI director
27	Howard Stern	2	In 1993 this shock jock got down to the nitty gritty with his first book, "Private Parts"
28	Henry Kissinger	2	"Years of Upheaval" is his personal account of foreign affairs during President Nixon's 2nd term
29	Helter Skelter	2	Vincent Bugliosi wrote about prosecuting the Manson murders in this bestseller with a rhyming title
30	Gilda Radner	2	Sadly, this funny lady passed away in 1989 shortly before her memoir "It's Always Something" came out
31	French Cooking	2	Thanks to a 2009 film, Julia Child's 48-year-old "Mastering the Art of" this reentered the bestseller lists
32	Freakonomics	2	"Rogue economist" Steven D. Levitt ties Roe v. Wade to a drop in crime in this bestseller
33	Erma Bombeck	2	"When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home", at least according to a 1991 bestseller by this humorist
34	Ebola	2	Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone" examines "the terrifying true story of the origins of" this deadly African virus
35	David Halberstam	2	This author and historian was researching a book about the 1958 NFL championship when he was killed in a 2007 car crash
36	Darwin	2	A government grant enabled him to publish "The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"
37	Charles Kuralt	2	This news personality's "America" told of his 12 favorite places found "On the Road"
38	Betty Friedan	2	In "The Fountain of Age", this author of "The Feminine Mystique" tackles the age mystique
39	a cookbook	2	Len Deighton is famous for spy novels, but he also wrote "Ou Est Le Garlic", which is this kind of book
40	(Richard) Wright	2	Published posthumously in 1977, "American Hunger" is a continuation of his "Black Boy" autobiography
41	Noah Webster	2	"The American Spelling Book" was the first part of his "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language"
42	Theodore Roosevelt	2	Edited by H. Paul Jeffers, "The Bully Pulpit" is a collection of quotations by this president
43	Ted Kennedy	2	2009's "Last Lion" is subtitled "The Fall and Rise of" this political brother
44	Jackie Kennedy Onassis	2	A 2014 biography tells her "Untold Story" of dealing with flashbacks after her husband's 1963 assassination
45	John Krakauer	2	His work "Into the Wild" became a 2007 hit film directed by Sean Penn