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John Kenneth Galbraith

Charting May 5, 1968Jun 30, 1968 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.64%
week of Jun 9, 1968
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
24
July 1967 – June 1968
Peak Five Years
24
June 1963 – June 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Jun 9, 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 · 24 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 Triumph#7524.3

At their peak

1967 in books

John Kenneth Galbraith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1967 to June 1968. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1William Styron412
  2. 2Leon Uris411
  3. 3Chaim Potok316
  4. 4Gore Vidal310
  5. 5Catherine Marshall284
  6. 6Elia Kazan274
  7. 7Mary Stewart239
  8. 8Ira Levin239
  9. 9Fletcher Knebel230
  10. 10Arthur Hailey193

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.