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General Sir John Hackett

Charting May 6, 1979Mar 9, 1980 · 40 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
7.95%
week of Sep 2, 1979
Career Power
235
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
235
March 1979 – March 1980
Peak Five Years
235
December 1974 – March 1980
Top-five weeks
15
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jun 10, 1979
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 · 235 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 THIRD WORLD WAR: August 1985#340235.5

At their peak

1979 in books

General Sir John Hackett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum413
  2. 2William Styron347
  3. 3Kurt Vonnegut284
  4. 4Herman Wouk274
  5. 5Mary Stewart256
  6. 6Ken Follett255
  7. 7General Sir John Hackett235
  8. 8Howard Fast212
  9. 9Joseph Heller207
  10. 10Stephen King200

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.