The Indie Politics & Current Events Bestsellers List

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For the eight-week period ending November 4, 2008, and based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.

1.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- And How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.95, 9780374166854

2.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307237705

3.

The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006 - 2008
Bob Woodward, S&S, $32, 9781416558972

4.

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
Andrew J. Bacevich, Metropolitan, $24, 9780805088151

5.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein, Picador, $16, 9780312427993

6.

The Forever War
Dexter Filkins, Knopf, $25, 9780307266392

7.

Mike's Election Guide 2008
Michael Moore, Grand Central, $13.99, 9780446546270

8.

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Kevin Phillips, Viking, $25.95, 9780670019076

9.

Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise
Obama for America, Barack Obama (Intro.), Three Rivers, $13.95, 9780307460455

10.

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Barton Gellman, Penguin Press, $27.95, 9781594201868

11.

Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It
Dick Morris, Eileen McGann, Harper, $26.95, 9780061547751

12.

The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $25.95, 9780393062359

13.

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Naomi Wolf, S&S, $13.95, 9781416590569

14.

Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down
Kaylene Johnson, Tyndale House, $15.95, 9781414330501

15.

Promises to Keep
Joe Biden, Random House, $15, 9780812976212

16.

The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, Picador, $16, 9780312425074

17.

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Ron Suskind, Harper, $27.95, 9780061430626

18.

The Wrecking Crew
Thomas Frank, Metropolitan, $25, 9780805079883

19.

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Jane Mayer, Doubleday, $27.50, 9780385526395

20.

The Devil We Know: Dealing With the New Iranian Superpower
Robert Baer, Crown, $25.95, 9780307408648

21.

Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War
Joe Bageant, Three Rivers, $13.95, 9780307339379

22.

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
Scott McClellan, PublicAffairs, $27.95, 9781586485566

23.

Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
Peggy Noonan, Collins, $19.95, 9780061735820

24.

The End of America
Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green, $13.95, 9781933392790

25.

The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
David Freddoso, Regnery, $27.95, 9781596985667

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