Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.c ...Show more
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
When the Second World War ended, the United States enjoyed an enormous material advantage over the rest of the world, but it was not yet a fully liberal society or a serious actor in cultural affairs. Over the next twenty years, that would change. Once relegated to the periphery, the United States moved ...Show more
Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Tie-In) by Jon Krakauer
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Jon Krakauer's investigation into ...Show more
The Nation on No Map - Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson; Saidiya Hartman (Foreword by); Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (Afterword by)
$28.00 AUD
Category: American
A call for Black survival in the face of widespread crisis. The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle for Black liberation while centering the politics of Black autonomy and self-determination. Amid renewed interest in Black anarchism among the le ...Show more
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol D. Philip; Leonnig Rucker
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A blockbuster . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVERThe definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New Yor ...Show more
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The TimesTo be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted - a state of nature arrived at after all else ...Show more
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
A short, sharp nonfiction modern classic on the political and societal state of America - how America got into this mess, and how it might get out of it - by one of the world's greatest nonfiction writersAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed ...Show more
The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama by Gabriel Debenedetti
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the complicated, co-dependent, and at-times rocky relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama, which has shaped Democratic politics over the past 16 years. Delving deeper than the bromance narrative that's held t ...Show more
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
"Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day--written by one of the world's leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the ...Show more
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Evan Osnos moved to Washington, DC, in 2013 after a decade away from the United States. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundat ...Show more
Destiny And Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * Time * NP ...Show more