BOOK WORLD - August 29, 2010

As August draws to a close, the only major addition to the slate of political titles selling briskly across the region is Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe's analysis of the Tea Party movement and its significance. And at # 1 to boot ...

1. Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto
(Morrow, $19.99). By Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe

2. If We Can Put a Man on the Moon ... : Getting Big Things Done in Government
(Harvard Business School, $24.95). By William D. Eggers & John O'Leary

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

4. More Davids Than Goliaths: A Political Education
(Crown, $25.99). By Harold Ford Jr.

5. The Obama Diaries (Threshold Editions, $25)
By Laura Ingraham

6. War (Twelve, $26.99). By Sebastian Junger

7. Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
(Metropolitan, $25). By Andrew J. Bacevich

8. Spoken from the Heart
(Scribner, $30). By Laura Bush

Drawn from Book World's bestseller data supplied by Nielsen BookScan for the week ending August 15 (culled from the top 50 titles sold). The chart may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2010 by Nielsen BookScan.