Foreign Affairs Bestsellers - September/October 2008

1. The Post-American World. Fareed Zakaria. Norton, $25.95. [Previous rank: 1]
2. Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History. Ted Sorensen. Harper, $27.95. [New Listing]
3. Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters. Richard A. Clarke. Ecco, $25.95. [New Listing]
4. War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq. Richard Engel. Simon & Schuster, $28.00. [New Listing]
5. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. Michael Dobbs. Knopf, $28.95. [New Listing]
6. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. Muhammad Yunus. PublicAffairs, $26.00. [Previous rank: 14]
7. Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid. Viking, $27.95 [New Listing]
8. Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, From Communism to al-Qaeda. Richard Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry Robert Schlesinger. Dutton, $29.95. [New Listing]
9. War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. Douglas J. Feith. Harper, $27.95. [Previous rank: 4]
10. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World. William J. Bernstein. Atlantic Monthly Press, $30.00. [Previous rank: 9]
11. Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad. Andrew C. McCarthy. Encounter Books, $25.95. [Previous rank: 7]
12. Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making. David Rothkopf. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.00. [Previous rank: 10]
13. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. Steve Coll. Penguin Press, $35.00. [Previous rank: 2]
14. Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy. Natan Sharansky. PublicAffairs, $26.95. [New Listing]
15. The Return of History and the End of Dreams. Robert Kagan. Knopf, $19.95. [New Listing]