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 MAY 6, 2004			Last month
1		Plan of Attack Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, $28.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	--
2		Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror Richard A. Clarke Free Press, $27.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	1
3		House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties Craig Unger Scribner, $26.00 Purchase at B&N.com	3
4		Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll The Penguin Press, $29.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	2
5		Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror Thomas McInerney & Paul E. Vallely Regnery Publishing, $27.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--
6		Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet James Mann Viking Press, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	4
7		The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic Chalmers Johnson Henry Holt, $25.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	6
8		The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership Zbigniew Brzezinski Basic Books, $25.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	7
9		Disarming Iraq Hans Blix Pantheon Books, $24.00 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	5
10		From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East Bernard Lewis Oxford University Press, $28.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--
11		The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Barnett Putnam Publishing Group, $26.95 Purchase at B&N.com	--
12		Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Noam Chomsky Henry Holt, $22.00 Purchase at B&N.com	8
13		Colossus: The Price of America's Empire Niall Ferguson The Penguin Press, $25.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	--
14		Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies Ian Buruma The Penguin Press, $21.95 Purchase at B&N.com | Read review	--
15		Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror Mahmood Mamdani Pantheon Books, $24.00 Purchase at B&N.com	--

The bestseller list is published monthly by Foreign Affairs magazine. Rankings are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com in April 2004.

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