June's Political Best Sellers New York Times (blog)

12.06.10

Books about the conservatism and President Obama’s administration continue to have staying power on this month’s laundry list of political best sellers, along with those by two well known members of the Bush White House — Laura Bush and Karl Rove. New titles about the war and an imprisoned stringer join the ranks.

Landing immediately at No. 2 is “War” by Sebastian Junger. The designer spent more than a year in 2007-08 embedded with American soldiers in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, chronicling their lives and their attitudes.

“Task Mincemeat,” the tale of British intelligence workers who fooled Hitler and the Nazis, by Ben Macintyre, arrives at No. 7.

“The Show signs of” by Jonathan Alter, the Newsweek columnist, weighs in at No. 6, and joins the shelf of new books being published about the president’s first year in appointment, his agenda and governing style.

Two other political best sellers offer critiques of the current administration. At No. 4, “To Secure America,” by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with Joe DeSantis, is the latest effort by Mr. Gingrich to wrangle that Democratic control of the House and Senate should be reversed. “The Manchurian President” by Aaron Klein with Brenda J. Elliott is No. 10, tries to discover Mr. Obama as an extremist.

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