Surviving Genocide - Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Jeffrey Ostler
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
"Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how A ...Show more
The Spymasters by Chris Whipple
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only 14 men a ...Show more
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$29.95 AUD
Category: American
The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. When Jill Lepore's New York Times best-selling These Truths appeared in 2018, critics quickly hailed it as a classic--appealing not only to aca ...Show more
The History of the Aryan Brotherhood by Gabriel Morales
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
"The History of the Aryan Brotherhood" starts at San Quentin, follows at Folsom Prison, and other California institutions, into the Federal system, to other states, and out on the street. See why the AB is feared everywhere. The Author took passages from his earlier book, "Prison Gangs in America", expa ...Show more
The Grifters' Club - Trump, Mar-A-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency by Sarah Blaskey; Caitlin Ostroff; Nicholas Nehamas; Jay Weaver
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
An astonishing look inside the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with little regard for ethics, security, or even the law Donald Trump's opulent Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago has thrummed with scandal since the earliest days of his presidenc ...Show more
The Storm Before the Calm - America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond by George Friedman
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Category: American
An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years. George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics ...Show more
Every Drop of Blood by Edward Achorn
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractab ...Show more
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
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Category: American
The 2013 National Book Award Winner A "New York Times" Bestseller American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to th ...Show more
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disaster by Peter Zeihan
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Category: American
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power. Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international ...Show more
Black Death at the Golden Gate - The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall
$41.95 AUD
Category: American
A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swolle ...Show more
Fight of the Century - Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
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Category: American
A unique collaboration between the American Civil Liberties Union and authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, Fight of the Century features original essays by the most influential writers at work today--including Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, Jesmyn Ward ...Show more
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker; Carol D. Leonnig;
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Category: American
Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington DC, and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency in his own image, shaken foreign alliances and tested American institutions. It would be all too easy to mistak ...Show more