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Spiro T. Agnew portraitSpiro T. Agnew

Charting Jun 27, 1976Aug 1, 1976 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.09%
week of Aug 1, 1976
Career Power
25
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
25
August 1975 – August 1976
Peak Five Years
25
August 1971 – August 1976
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jun 27, 1976
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 · 25 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.

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At their peak

1975 in books

Spiro T. Agnew's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1975 to August 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1E. L. Doctorow449
  2. 2Agatha Christie400
  3. 3Judith Rossner295
  4. 4Joseph Wambaugh281
  5. 5Gore Vidal247
  6. 6Leon Uris245
  7. 7James Clavell212
  8. 8Irving Stone208
  9. 9Jack Higgins180
  10. 10Saul Bellow163

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.