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Drew Pearson

Charting Sep 15, 1968Jan 12, 1969 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.14%
week of Dec 15, 1968
Career Power
105
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
105
January 1968 – January 1969
Peak Five Years
105
January 1964 – January 1969
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Nov 3, 1968
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

1 book · 105 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Senator#417104.9

At their peak

1968 in books

Drew Pearson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1968 to January 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Arthur Hailey558
  2. 2John Updike394
  3. 3Leon Uris330
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell298
  5. 5Fletcher Knebel288
  6. 6William Styron278
  7. 7Gore Vidal266
  8. 8Helen MacInnes216
  9. 9Catherine Marshall203
  10. 10Allen Drury176

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.