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What Were People Reading in the Summer of 1972?

July 14, 2022

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Fifty years ago, the book dotting every beach towel was Richard Bach’s best-selling novel, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.”

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What Were People Reading in the Summer of 1972?

Fifty years ago, the book dotting every beach towel was Richard Bach’s best-selling novel, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.”

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