The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power by Geoffrey Dunn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
An in-depth political biography of America's most polarising figure. Based on more than 200 interviews - many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin's - and more than 40,000 pages of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicles Palin's troubling penchant for duplicity in grim ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
Letters to My Daughter by Sir Robert Menzies
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
As Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and the founder of the Liberal Party, Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in our political and cultural history. Letters to My Daughter is a collection of letters written by Menzies to his only daughter, Heather, throughout the fifties, sixties and seven ...Show more
Lazarus Rising by John Howard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
John Howard's autobiography, Lazarus Rising, is the biggest-selling political memoir Australia has seen. In it he talks about his love for his family, his rollercoaster ride to the Lodge and how - as prime minister - he responded to issues like climate change and the war on terrorism. Drawing on his dee ...Show more
Renegade: The Making of Barack Obama by Richard Wolffe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Barack Obama himself told veteran political reporter Richard Wolffe, 'You'll get more access than anyone else'<?i>, and Renegade is his unique story of how a political newcomer with no money and an outsider's name grew into the world's most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate portr ...Show more
Driven: A Diplomat's Auto-Biography by Richard Broinowski
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A memoir by a distinguished Australian former diplomat, with a particular focus on the cars he has loved and driven in Australia and his postings in Asia, the Middle East, North and Central America. This makes for an entertaining look at various cultures (their driving behaviour, traffic conditions and ...Show more
A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam's Life in Politics by Graham Freudenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Winner of the Age Book of the Year AwardGraham Freudenberg's inside account of Gough Whitlam's political rise and fall is one of the great classics of Australian political writing. From his position as Gough's speechwriter and confidant, just out of the spotlight of history, Freudenberg was an eyewitne ...Show more
And So It Went - Night Thoughts in by ELLIS Bob
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the rise of Turnbull and Rudd to the slow disintegration of Howard, Ruddock, Olmert, Blair, Musharraf, Mugabe, Costello, and Bush, from the campaign insults of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin to the night of Obama's audacious victory, Bob Ellis ponders on humanity's most ...Show more
To the Bitter End: The Dramatic Story Behind the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd by Peter Hartcher
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
On 24 November, 2007 Australia resoundingly changed government. If you think you know what really happened during that tumultuous year behind the closed doors of the Liberal Party, in the back rooms of the ACTU and deep in the campaign war room of the Labor Party, think again. 2007 was a year to remembe ...Show more
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
$49.95 AUD
$55.95 (10% off)
Category: Political
Constantly rewriting his own story, Malcolm X became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and eventually an icon, assassinated at the age of 39. This title presents a sweeping story of the darkest days of racial unrest, from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement, examin ...Show more
Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994-1997 by Alastair Campbell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Political
As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. "Prelude to Power" is the first of four volumes, and covers the early days of New Labour, culminating in their vic ...Show more