Best political books of 2010

It's getting to be that time of year, the time when newspaper and magazine book editors turn up on radio and TV to talk about the "best books" of the year. I've got my first such show coming up next week – a discussion of the year's best political books on Minnesota Public Radio.

So I sat down to make my list of 2010 political books. There've been a lot, that's for sure. There have been high-profile tell-alls like "Game Change" by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin and "The Politician" by Andrew Young. There have been the inevitable analyses of Obama ("The Bridge" by David Remnick, "The Promise" by Jonathan Alter, and "Young Mr. Obama" by Edward McClelland).

There have also been a truckload of memoirs ("Courage and Consequence" by Karl Rove, "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin, "White House Diary" by Jimmy Carter, "A Journey" by Tony Blair, "Spoken from the Heart" by Laura Bush, "No Apology" by Mitt Romney, with George W. Bush's "Decision Points" still to come) and biographies ("Jimmy Carter" by Julian E. Zelizer, "Lyndon B. Johnson," by Charles Peters, "Joe Biden" by Jules Witcover, and "A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Knew Him" by Michael Takiff due out later this month).

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