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Pierre Salinger

Charting Jul 11, 1971 → Sep 26, 1971 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.02%
week of Sep 26, 1971
Career Power
57
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
57
October 1970 – September 1971
Peak Five Years
57
October 1966 – September 1971
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Aug 1, 1971
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 · 57 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
On Instructions of My Government#5956.6

At their peak

1970 in books →

Pierre Salinger's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1970 to September 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Leon Uris434
  2. 2Erich Segal388
  3. 3Irving Stone333
  4. 4Joseph Wambaugh261
  5. 5Ernest Hemingway260
  6. 6Irwin Shaw252
  7. 7Mary Stewart211
  8. 8William Peter Blatty196
  9. 9Agatha Christie186
  10. 10Victoria Holt175

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.