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2004
January
4 Brenda Wineapple
Hawthorne: A Life
11 Walter Mears
Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter’s Story
18 John Seigenthaler
James K. Polk
25 Nathaniel Philbrick
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
February
1 Abigail Thernstrom
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
8 Nikki Giovanni
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
15 Jon Meacham
Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
22 Kenneth Silverman
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse
29 George Soros
The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power
March
7 Richard Perle
An End to Evil
14 John Dean
Warren G. Harding
21 Constance Hays
The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company
28 Michael Dobbs
Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America
April
4 Nicholas Capaldi
John Stuart Mill: A Biography
11 Martin Marty
Martin Luther
18 David Cay Johnston
Perfectly Legal:The Covert Campaign to Rig our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich- and Cheat Everyone Else
25 Christopher Benson
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
May
2 Eric Lax
The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
9 Charles Ogletree
All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education
16 John Lewis Gaddis
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
23 Joseph Califano
Inside: A Public and Private Life
30 Thomas Barnett
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
June
6 Amy Goodman
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
13 Samuel Huntington
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity
20 Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Part 1)
27 Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Part 2)
July
4 Alyn Brodsky
Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician
11 Robert Kurson
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
18 Mark Perry
Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America
25 Mario Cuomo
Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever
August
1 John McCain
Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life
8 Maureen Dowd
Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk
15 Denny Hastert
Speaker: Lessons from 40 Years in Coaching and Politics
22 Dorie McCullough Lawson
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
29 James Chace
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs- The Election That Changed the Country”
September
5 Richard Viguerie
America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power
12 George McGovern
The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition
19 Bryan Burrough
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
26 Jack Matlock, Jr.
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
October
3 John Ferling
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800
10 Hendrik Hertzberg
Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004
17 John McCaslin
Inside the Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops and Shenanigans from Around the Nation's Capital
24 Antony Beevor
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova
31 Chris Wallace
Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
November
7 Winslow Wheeler
The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security
14 Stephen Greenblatt
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
21 Peter Charles Hoffer
Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin
28 Peter Wallner
Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son
December
5 Mark Edmundson
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