Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
$33.00 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
Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work -- the determinative work -- in this field ... Terrifying.'--Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years ...Show more
Radical Hope by LEAR JONATHAN
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened."It is precisely this point-that of a ...Show more
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
$80.00 AUD
Category: American
One ofO, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one ofVogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of andCosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one ofThe Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want to Miss, and one of ...Show more
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Ph.D. Trump
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
America: the Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
$27.00 AUD
Category: American
Is America in a state of irrevocable decline? In this provocative and disturbing examination of our country, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges argues that the United States shows unmistakable signs of a dying culture. America's social fabric is unraveling, while at the same time we face glo ...Show more
Blood Legacy - Reckoning with a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compen ...Show more
New York, New York, New York - Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York's terrifying, if liberating, state of nature ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, fami ...Show more
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Vol 1) by CARO ROBERT A
$52.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: The\Years of Lyndon Johnson Ser.
The story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill country. Reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart.
Black Bodies Swinging by Robin Kelley
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
The police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 triggered a wave of protests like no other in history. Millions took to the streets in over forty US cities and across the globe in a multiracial, militant, and mobile uprising, calling not only for justice for all Black victims but for vast and visionary c ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
$25.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Narratives of Empire
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American hist ...Show more