Foreign Affairs Bestsellers - March/April 2008

I should note that Foreign Affairs describes this list as "The top-selling hardcover books on American foreign policy and international affairs." That these are hardcovers explains the prices. You may want to watch for them at your local library, or wait until they appear in paperback.

1. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Naomi Klein. Metropolitan Books, $28.00. [#1 in the previous list.]

2. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Tim Weiner. Doubleday, $27.95. [6]

3. Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations. John Bolton. Threshold Editions, $27.00. [4]

4. The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future. Craig Unger. Scribner, $27.00. [New]

5. Condoleeza Rice: An American Life. Elisabeth Bumiller. Random House, $27.95. [New]

6. The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets ... and How We Could Have Stopped Him. Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. Twelve, $25.00. [New]

7. Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall. Amy Chua. Doubleday, $27.95. [9]

8. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.00. [3]

9. The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack. Ronald Kessler. Crown Forum, $26.95. [New]

10. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. Walter Russell Mead. Knopf, $27.95. [7]

11. Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century. David Reynolds. Basic Books, $35.00 [12]

12. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Fugure of Capitalism. Muhammad Yunus. PublicAffairs, $26.00. [New]

13. World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism. Norman Podhoretz. Doubleday, $24.95. [2]

14. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. Michael B. Oren. Norton, $35.00. [10]

15. The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea. Steve Levine. Random House, $27.95. [New]

Among the new books, I would think that Creating a World Without Poverty might be the most interesting. The biography of Condoleeza Rice may also be worthwhile.