If this list of bestselling books is an indication as to the direction people are thinking these days, perhaps there is hope for a conservative victory in the next election.

JOHN ADAMS, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster, $35.) A biography of the country's first vice president and second president.

THE NO SPIN ZONE, by Bill O'Reilly. (Broadway, $24.95.) More political opinions from the host of the cable news program "The O'Reilly Factor."

THE FINAL DAYS, by Barbara Olson. (Regnery, $27.95.) The conservative commentator, who died aboard a hijacked jetliner on Sept. 11, discusses "the last, des- perate abuses of power" in the Clinton White House.

BLACK HAWK DOWN, by Mark Bowden. (Penguin, $13.95; Signet, $7.99.) The bloody battle between American forces and Somali street fighters in Mogadishu in 1993.

BAND OF BROTHERS, by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $16.) The exploits of an elite United States Army rifle company during World War II.

BIAS, by Bernard Goldberg. (Regnery, $27.95.) A television journalist who worked at CBS for many years reports on "how the media distort the news."

WHEN CHARACTER WAS KING, by Peggy Noonan. (Viking, $24.95.) Reflections on Ronald Reagan by the former White House speechwriter.

THE WILD BLUE, by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A history of the young Americans who flew B-24's over Germany in World War II.

LIFE: WORLD WAR 2, edited by Richard B. Stolley. (Bulfinch/Little, Brown, $60.) The Second World War as seen in photographs that were collected by Life magazine.

GHOST SOLDIERS, by Hampton Sides. (Doubleday, $24.95.) The story of a United States Army plan to rescue prisoners of war (including survivors of the Bataan death march) in the Philippines in early 1945.

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