BOOK WORLD: May 9, 2010

1. The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency (Lyons, $22.95)
By Ken Blackwell & Ken Klukowski

2. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
(Norton, $27.95). By Michael Lewis

3. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
(Knopf, $29.95). By David Remnick

4. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
(Harper, $27.99). By John Heilemann & Mark Halperin

5. 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
(Pantheon, $26.95). By Simon Johnson & James Kwak

6. Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
(Ecco, $25.99). By Richard A. Clarke & Robert K. Knake

7. Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
(Princeton Univ., $24.95). By George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton

8. Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight (Threshold Editions, $30). By Karl Rove

9. 2010 Take Back America: A Battle Plan: The Stakes, the Targets, the Strategies ... And What You Can Do (Harper, $26.99)
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

10. The End of Wall Street
(Penguin Press, $27.95). By Roger Lowenstein

11. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff
(Bloomberg, $27.95). By Christine S. Richard

12. Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
(Random House, $26). By David M. Walker

13. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
(Crown Business, $26.99). By David Wessel

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