INVESTIGATIVE BOOKS OF 2003

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Jan/Feb 2004 by Weinberg, Steve

Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall

(Norton)

* Meier, Barry

Pain Killer: The True Story of a Prescription Drug Disaster

(Rodale)

* Menn, Joseph

All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster

(Crown Business)

* Meyer, Karl E.

The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland

(PublicAffairs)

* Moore, James, and Wayne Slater

Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential

(Wiley)

* Morris, Mark, and Paul Janczewski

Fatal Error

(Pinnacle)

* Morris, Roger

A Land We Never Knew

(Knopf)

* Mowbray, Joel

Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America's Security

(Regnery)

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* Nace, Ted

Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

(Berrett-Koehler)

* Newhouse, John

Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order

(Knopf)

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* Oppenheimer, Todd

The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved

(Random House)

* Owen, Frank

Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture

(St. Martin's)

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* Penenberg, Adam L.

Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Danger of SUVs

(HarperBusiness)

* Perlstein, Linda

Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

* Phelps, M. William

Perfect Poison

(Pinnacle/Kensington)

* Platt, Larry

Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Alien Iverson

(Regan)

* Posner, Gerald

Motown: Music, Money, Sex and Power

(Random House)

* Posner, Gerald

Why America Slept: The Reasons Behind Our Failure to Prevent 9/11

(Random House)

* Possley, Maurice

The Brown's Chicken Massacre

(Berkley)

* Powell, Robert Andrew

We Own This Game: A Season in the Adult World of Youth Football

(Atlantic Monthly Press)

* Priest, Dana

The Mission: America's Military in the Twenty-First Century

(Norton)

* Pringle, Peter

Food Inc.:The Promise and Perils of Genetic Agriculture

(Simon & Schuster)

* Purdham, Todd S., and The New York Times staff

A Time of Our Choosing: America's War in Iraq

(Holt)

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* Quammen, David

Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and Mind

(Norton)

* Quart, Alissa

Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers

(Perseus)

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* Rabinowitz, Dorothy

No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness and Other Terrors of Our Time

(Wall Street Journal/Simon & Schuster)

* Ressa, Maria

Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia

(Free Press)

* Rich, Laura

The Accidental Zillionaire: Demystifying Paul Allen

(Wiley)

* Roberts, Janine

Glitter and Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel

(Disinformation Company)

* Roen, Samuel

Evidence of Murder

(Pinnacle)

* Rottenberg, Dan

In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World

(Routledge)

* Ruhlman, Michael

Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit

(Viking)

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* Saletan, William

Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War

(University of California Press)

* Scheeler, Danny

Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception

(Prometheus)

* Schell, Jonathan

The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People