Thomas P.M. Barnett

Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 6 February 2005

The FA list has been active since the month of March 2004, for a total of 11 lists. Nineteen books have appeared once, 8 books have appeared twice, 11 books have appeared three times, and 7 books have appeared four times.

The books that have appeared the most:

ï Three books (Foer, Hersh, and Norton version of 9/11 Commission) have appeared five times
ï Four books (Rifkin, Coll, Woodward, Clarke) have appeared six times

ï Three books (Petersen, Anonymous, Unger) have appeared seven times

ï No books have appeared eight times

ï The Pentagon's New Map has appeared nine times

ï No books have appeared for 10 times or for all 11 lists.

That's pretty good seeing that FA has gone out of its way to ignore PNM.

Here's the list for the month of January 2005. You'll see that PNM held onto the 9th spot:

Foreign Affairs Bestseller List
The top-selling hardcover books on American foreign policy and international affairs. Rankings are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com.

POSTED FEBRUARY 2, 2005

1) Collapse by Jared Diamond (Viking), new to list

2) The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky (PublicAffairs), #4 last month

3) The United States of Europe by T. R. Reid (Penguin Press), #2

4) 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Norton), #3

5) Imperial Hubris by Anonymous (Brassey's), #1

6) America's Secret War by George Friedman (Doubleday), #6

7) Our Oldest Enemy by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky (Doubleday), #10

8) The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack (Random House), #5

9) The Pentagon's New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett (Putnam), #9

10) Chain of Command by Seymour M. Hersh (HarperCollins), #7

11) Tower of Babble by Dore Gold (Crown Forum), new

12) The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin (Tarcher), #13

13) Running on Empty by Peter G. Peterson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), #8

14) The Debt Threat by Noreena Hertz (HarperCollins), new

15) How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer (HarperCollins), #14