Hiding in Plain Sight : The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
$62.00 AUD
Category: Political
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.This program is read by the author. The story of Donald Trump's rise to power is the story of ...Show more
How to Win an Election by Chris Wallace
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the taking – including the next one. Here are the ten steps to winning an election. We have a democracy that performs relatively well, but many Australian elections are very clo ...Show more
The Alternative by Owen Jones
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
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Abe - Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds
$71.99 AUD
Category: Political
From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln , many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other ic ...Show more
The Tyranny of Merit - What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the tyranny of the meritocracy and the resentments it produces. Our politics are fraught with rancor and resentment. Decades of rising inequality and stalled mobility ...Show more
Reconnected by Andrew Leigh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
Friends are good for your health. The strength of your social relationships is a remarkably good predictor of how long you will live. Strong social connections also make communities more resilient, efficient and satisfying. But today Australians have fewer close friends and local connections than in the ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
Bland Fanatics - Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empires by Pankaj Mishra
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its f ...Show more
Working with Winston by Cita Stelzer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
To maintain the pace at which he worked as a parliamentarian, cabinet minister, war leader, writer and painter, Churchill required a vast female staff of secretaries, typists and others. For these women Churchill was an intimidating boss; he was a man of prodigious energy, who imposed unusual and demand ...Show more
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from ...Show more
Play by the Rules: The Short Story of American Leadership by Michael Pembroke
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
In Play by the Rules, acclaimed writer and historian Michael Pembroke offers a fresh take on the USA's vast influence and asks whether it is still a force for good. The United States of America has long claimed to be the leader of the 'free world', however for the last seventy-five years, as it has rout ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography Volume Three - Herself Alone by Charles Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times) A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR How did M ...Show more