The Fire Is upon Us - James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr. , and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
$74.00 AUD
Category: American
How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading lit ...Show more
American Carnage - Behind the Scenes of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of Trump by Tim Alberta
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party--how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Tr ...Show more
Fall and Rise: the Story Of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
$32.99 AUD
Category: American
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is ...Show more
If We Can Keep It - A Brief, 300-Year History of the Fall of the Republic by Michael Tomasky
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate Michael Tomasky's deeply original examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. "One of America's finest political commentators" (Michael J. Sandel), ...Show more
Behold, America : A History of America First and the American Dream by Sarah Churchwell
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
What does America stand for in the twenty-first century' Behold, America confronts this urgent and searching question by looking at the origins of the country 's most contentious self-identifying phrases- the American dream ' and America first '. Is America a racial melting pot, a democracy, a winner-ta ...Show more
Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
Reagan - An American Journey by Bob Spitz
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan so beloved and so transformational. More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with ...Show more
The Founding Myth - Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American by Andrew L. Seidel; Susan Jacoby (Foreword by); Dan Barker (Preface by)
$43.00 AUD
Category: American
A new approach to the "Christian nation" is needed more than ever in today's political climate. Do "In God We Trust," the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's "prayer" at Valley Forge, and other historical "evidence" prove that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten C ...Show more
Anointed with Oil - How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America by Darren Dochuk
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashesAnointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reve ...Show more
Narcoland - The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Narcoland describes a disastrous 'war on drugs' that has led to more than 80,000 deaths in half a dozen years. This is a book that exposes how everything in Mexico is implicated in the 'narco system.' Anabel Hernandez, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and ...Show more
Spying on the South - An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it du ...Show more