The Book Sense Political Bestseller List

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For the four-week period ending July 25, 2004, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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The Book Sense Political Bestseller List
1. Stupid White Men
Michael Moore, Regan Books, $13.95, 006098726X
2. The 9/11 Commission Report
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Staff), Norton, $10, 0393326713
3. Bushwhacked
Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose, Vintage, $12, 0375713115
4. Plan of Attack
Bob Woodward, S&S, $28, 074325547X
5. What's the Matter With Kansas?
Thomas Frank, Metropolitan, $24, 0805073396
6. Against All Enemies
Richard Clarke, Free Press, $27, 0743260244
7. Who Let the Dogs In?
Molly Ivins, Random House, $22.95, 1400062853
8. House of Bush, House of Saud
Craig Unger, Scribner, $26, 074325337X
9. Charlie Wilson's War
George Crile, Grove, $14, 0802141242
10. MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country
MoveOn.org (Eds.), Inner Ocean, $10.95, 193072229X
11. The Exception to the Rulers
Amy Goodman, David Goodman, Hyperion, $21.95, 1401301312
12. Worse Than Watergate
John Dean, Little, Brown, $22.95, 031600023X
13. Moyers on America
Bill Moyers, New Press, $24.95, 1565848926
14. Homegrown Democrat
Garrison Keillor, Viking, $19.95, 0670033650
15. Reason
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $24, 1400042216
16. A Pretext for War
James Bamford, Doubleday, $26.95, 0385506724
17. Running on Empty
Peter G. Peterson, FSG, $24, 0374252874
18. Imperial Hubris
Anonymous, Brassey's, $27.50, 1574888498
19. Sleeping With the Devil
Robert Baer, Three Rivers, $13.95, 1400052688
20. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Al Franken, Dutton, $24.95, 0525947647
21. Rewriting History
Dick Morris, Regan Books, $24.95, 0060736682
22. Imperial America
Gore Vidal, Nation, $18, 1560255854
23. Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
David T. Hardy, Jason Clarke, Regan Books, $22.95, 0060763957
24. The Politics of Truth
Joseph Wilson, Carroll & Graf, $26, 078671378X
25. Losing America
Robert C. Byrd, Norton, $23.95, 0393059421
26. Thieves in High Places
Jim Hightower, Plume, $14, 0452285658
27. Bush on the Couch
Justin A. Frank, Regan Books, $24.95, 0060736704
28. Why Lincoln Matters
Mario Matthew Cuomo, Harcourt, $24, 0151009996
29. Bush Must Go
Bill Press, Dutton, $21.95, 0525948406
30. Banana Republicans
Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber, Tarcher/Penguin, $11.95, 1585423424
31. Deliver Us From Evil
Sean Hannity, Regan Books, $26.95, 0060582510
32. The Crisis of Islam
Bernard Lewis, Random House, $12.95, 0812967852
33. The New Pearl Harbor
David R. Griffin, Interlink, $15, 1566565529
34. The 9/11 Investigations: Staff Reports of the 9/11 Commission
Steven Strasser (Ed.), PublicAffairs, $14.95, 1586482793
35. 50 Ways You Can Show George the Door in 2004
Ben Cohen, Jason Salzman, Westview Press, $9.95, 0813342821
36. The Connection: How Al Qaeda's Collaboration With Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America
Stephen F. Hayes, HarperCollins, $19.95, 0060746734
37. Who's Looking Out for You?
Bill O'Reilly, Broadway, $24.95, 0767913795
38. The Lies of George W. Bush
David Corn, Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400050677
39. The Future of Freedom
Fareed Zakaria, Norton, $14.95, 0393324877
40. The Good Fight
Ralph Nader, Regan Books, $25.95, 0060756047
41. The End of Oil
Paul Roberts, Houghton Mifflin, $26, 0618239774
42. The Three Little Pigs Buy the White House
Dan Piraro, Thomas Dunne, $12.95, 031233074X
43. The Pentagon's New Map
Thomas P.M. Barnett, Putnam, $26.95, 0399151753
44. Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Rev.)
Greg Palast, Plume, $14, 0452285674
45. Still More George W. Bushisms
Jacob Weisberg (Ed.), Fireside, $9.95, 0743251008
46. What Went Wrong?
Bernard Lewis, Perennial, $12.95, 0060516054
47. Bush Versus the Environment
Robert S. Devine, Anchor, $12, 1400075211
48. Longitudes and Attitudes
Thomas L. Friedman, Anchor, $14.95, 1400031257
49. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges, Anchor, $12.95, 1400034639
50. Let Freedom Ring
Sean Hannity, Regan Books, $14.95, 0060735651