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Best Selling Nonfiction
Hardcover from the New York Times List
8/31/2008
| 1 |
THE OBAMA NATION, by
Jerome R. Corsi. (Threshold, $28.) The
Democratic candidate as an extreme leftist,
from a co-author of “Unfit for Command:
Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John
Kerry.” |
328.73 COR |
| 2 |
STORI TELLING, by
Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon
Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.) A memoir. |
B SPELLING |
| 3 |
THE WAY OF THE
WORLD, by Ron Suskind. (Harper, 27.95.) How
the Bush administration ignored evidence
about Iraq in its rush to war. |
306.7 HAN |
| 4 |
ARE YOU THERE,
VODKA? IT’S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler.
(Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $24.95.)
Humorous personal essays from the stand-up
comedian. |
306.7 HAN |
| 5 |
WHEN YOU ARE
ENGULFED IN FLAMES, by David Sedaris.
(Little, Brown, $25.99.) The humorist’s
latest essays. |
814 SED |
| 6 |
THE CASE AGAINST
BARACK OBAMA, by David Freddoso. (Regnery,
$27.95.) The Democratic candidate as a
calculating extreme leftist. |
PINES |
| 7 |
FLEECED, by Dick
Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper, $26.95.)
Americans are fleeced by government,
business, labor unions and lobbyists. |
320.973 MOR |
| 8 |
THE DARK SIDE, by
Jane Mayer. (Doubleday, $27.50.) How the
Bush administration embraced the practice of
torture. |
973.931 MAY |
| 9 |
THE LIMITS OF POWER,
by Andrew Bacevich. (Metropolitan/Holt,
$24.) A retired Army colonel argues that
American citizens are ultimately responsible
for the country’s military and economic
woes. |
PINES |
| 10 |
TRAFFIC, by Tom
Vanderbilt. (Knopf, $24.95.) Why we drive
the way we do. |
629.28 VANDE |
| 11 |
THE WRECKING CREW,
by Thomas Frank. (Metropolitan/Holt, $25.)
The deliberate mismanagement of Republican
rule. |
973.92 FRA |
| 12 |
THE NIGHT OF THE
GUN, by David Carr. (Simon & Schuster, $26.)
A New York Times media columnist and culture
reporter recounts his former life as a crack
addict, cokehead and alcoholic, and how he
got back on track. |
on order |
| 13 |
THE POST-AMERICAN
WORLD, by Fareed Zakaria. (Norton, $25.95.)
The rise of China and India. |
303.49 ZAK |
| 14 |
HAVANA NOCTURNE, by
T. J. English. (Morrow, $27.95.) When
American gangsters controlled Cuba’s
casinos. |
on order |
| 15 |
LIFE WITH MY SISTER
MADONNA, by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy
Leigh. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $26.)
What she’s really like. |
780.92 MADONNA |
| 16 |
WAITER RANT, by the
Waiter. (Ecco, $24.95.) An anonymous New
York waiter on customers’ outrageous
behavior. |
PINES |
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