Best Books of 2008

Top 10 Books: Current Events

Best of 2008
Welcome to our Best of 2008 top 10 lists in Current Events. This year we've put our editors' picks and our year-end bestsellers for each category on the same page together, so you can easily compare. Click on "Editors' Picks" to see our editors' list of the best current events books of 2008, including our top pick, The Forever War, Dexter Filkins's poetic and unflinching report from a decade on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq. And click on "Customer Favorites" to find the bestselling current events books at Amazon.com during 2008. (Ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2008 are eligible.) See more editors' picks and customers' favorites in our Best of 2008 Store.


Editors' Picks |Customer Favorites
1. The Revolution: A Manifesto
The Revolution: A Manifesto
by Ron Paul
Avg. Customer Review:
4.2
Currently unavailable
Grand Central Publishing
April 1, 2008
Hardcover

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From Publishers Weekly
Congressman, Republican Presidential candidate and author Paul (A Foreign Policy of Freedom) says "Let the revolution begin" with this libertarian plea for a return to "the principles of our Founding Fathers: liberty, self-government, the Constitution, and... Read more

2. The Post-American World
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
Avg. Customer Review:
4.2
In Stock
W. W. Norton & Company
April 17, 2008
Hardcover

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Amazon.com Review
Book Description "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal ... Read more

3. What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
by Scott McClellan
Avg. Customer Review:
3.7
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PublicAffairs
May 28, 2008
Hardcover

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From Publishers Weekly
Some listeners may get to the end of this audiobook and still be asking "What happened?" for even in his own words, McClellan's book appears either woefully na... Read more

4. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
Avg. Customer Review:
3.9
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 8, 2008
Hardcover

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Amazon.com Review
Book Description Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America’s surprising ... Read more

5. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
by Jerome R. Corsi
Avg. Customer Review:
3.3
Out of Print--Limited Availability
Threshold Editions
August 1, 2008
Hardcover

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Product Description
From the Publisher: In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished and divided, ... Read more

6. Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It
Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It
by Dick Morris
Avg. Customer Review:
3.6
Out of Print--Limited Availability
Harper
June 24, 2008
Hardcover

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Product Description
With sharp, detail-filled style Morris and McGann are sure to stir up controversy with the hard facts laid out in this book. From claims about the slave state of Dubai - secretly buying everything from MGM to the Queen Mary to credit card companies abuse -... Read more

7. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
by A. J. Bacevich
Avg. Customer Review:
4.4
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Metropolitan Books
August 5, 2008
Hardcover

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Price:$24.00

From Publishers Weekly
In this caustic critique of the growing American penchant for empire and sense of entitlement, Bacevich (... Read more

8. FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
by Neal Boortz
Avg. Customer Review:
4.5
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William Morrow Paperbacks
February 12, 2008
Paperback

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Product Description
In 2005, firebrand radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Georgia congressman John Linder created The FairTax Book, presenting the American public with a bold new plan designed to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS, jump-start the U.S. economy, bring back lost industries and jobs, and recapture billions ... Read more

9. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer
Avg. Customer Review:
4.5
Currently unavailable
Doubleday
July 15, 2008
Hardcover

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From Publishers Weekly
This hard-hitting expose examines both the controversial excesses of the war on terror and the home-front struggle to circumvent legal obstacles to its prosecution. New Yorker correspondent Mayer (Strange Justice) details the battle within the Bush Adminis... Read more

10. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
by David Freddoso
Avg. Customer Review:
4.1
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Regnery Publishing
August 4, 2008
Hardcover

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Review
Obama a Lefty, Not a Reformer The first serious negative biography of Senator Barack Obama casts the Democratic nominee as a fake reformer and a real liberal. The Case Against Barack Obama by National Review's David Freddoso, blasts Obama for failing to take on the Chicago machine, ... Read more