The Book Sense National Politics & Presidents Bestseller List

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Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country for the eight week period ended October 17, 2004.

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The Book Sense National Politics & Presidents Bestseller List
1. The 9/11 Commission Report
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Staff), Norton, $10, 0393326713
2. America (The Book)
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Staff, Warner, $24.95, 0446532681
3. Unfit for Command
John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi, Regnery, $27.95, 0895260174
4. The Family
Kitty Kelley, Doubleday, $29.95, 0385503245
5. Bushworld
Maureen Dowd, Putnam, $25.95, 039915258X
6. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Al Franken, Plume, $14, 0452285216
7. My Life
Bill Clinton, Knopf, $35, 0375414576
8. Homegrown Democrat
Garrison Keillor, Viking, $19.95, 0670033650
9. What's the Matter With Kansas?
Thomas Frank, Metropolitan, $24, 0805073396
10. Chain of Command
Seymour M. Hersh, HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060195916
11. Dude, Where's My Country?
Michael Moore, Warner, $14.95, 0446693790
12. Imperial Hubris
Anonymous, Brassey's, $27.50, 1574888498
13. Obliviously On He Sails
Calvin Trillin, Random House, $12.95, 1400062888
14. Running on Empty
Peter G. Peterson, FSG, $24, 0374252874
15. The Great Unraveling
Paul Krugman, Norton, $14.95, 0393326055
16. Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HarperCollins, $21.95, 0060746874
17. An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
Arundhati Roy, South End, $12, 0896087271
18. Bushwhacked
Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose, Vintage, $12, 0375713115
19. Stupid White Men
Michael Moore, Regan Books, $13.95, 006098726X
20. Hegemony or Survival
Noam Chomsky, Owl, $13, 0805076883
21. Who Let the Dogs In?
Molly Ivins, Random House, $22.95, 1400062853
22. How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
Ann Coulter, Crown, $26.95, 1400054184
23. Democracy Matters
Cornel West, Penguin, $24.95, 1594200297
24. Against All Enemies
Richard A. Clarke, Free Press, $14, 0743260457
25. Where the Right Went Wrong
Patrick J. Buchanan, Thomas Dunne, $24.95, 0312341156
26. A Matter of Character
Ronald Kessler, Sentinel, $24.95, 1595230009
27. Hey Rube
Hunter S. Thompson, S&S, $23, 0684873192
28.

Bushisms
Jacob Weisberg (Ed.), Fireside, $12.95, 0743262522

29. American Dynasty
Kevin P. Phillips, Penguin, $15, 0143034316
30. The Impossible Will Take a Little While
Paul Rogat Loeb (Ed.), Basic, $15.95, 0465041663
31. The Exception to the Rulers
Amy Goodman, David Goodman, Hyperion, $21.95, 1401301312
32. Treachery
Bill Gertz, Crown Forum, $25.95, 1400053153
33. Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Scribner, $16, 0743222253
34. Charlie Wilson's War
George Crile, Grove, $14, 0802141242
35. Bush on the Couch
Justin A. Frank, ReganBooks, $24.95, 0060736704
36. Worse Than Watergate
John Dean, Little Brown, $22.95, 031600023X
37. My Life
Bill Clinton, Random House Audio Publishing Group, $35, 0739317067
38. Plan of Attack
Bob Woodward, S&S, $28, 074325547X
39. John Adams
David McCullough, Touchstone, $18.95, 0743223136
40. Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush
Jim Hightower, Viking, $21.95, 0670033545
41. Moyers on America
Bill Moyers, New Press, $24.95, 1565848926
42. All the President's Spin
Ben Fritz, Touchstone, $14, 0743262514
43. A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America
John Kerry, Penguin, $12, 0143034987
44. Cruel and Unusual
Mark Crispin Miller, Norton, $24.95, 0393059170
45. Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back
Jim Hightower, Plume, $14, 0452285658
46. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges, Anchor, $12.95, 1400034639
47. Deliver Us From Evil
Sean Hannity, Regan Books, $26.95, 0060582510
48. The New Pearl Harbor
David R. Griffin, Interlink, $15, 1566565529
49. A National Party No More
Zell Miller, Stroud & Hall, $26, 0974537616
50. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country
MoveOn.org (Eds.), Inner Ocean, $10.95, 193072229X