Dopesick - Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it In thi ...Show more
George Washington - The Wonder of the Age by John Rhodehamel
$38.00 AUD
Category: American
As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has established himself as an authority of our nation's preeminent founding father. Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arg ...Show more
The Throne Is Empty - America's Abdication of Global Leadership by Ivo Daalder; James Lindsey
$48.00 AUD
Category: American
American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.America emerged from the catastrophe of World War II convinced that global engagement and leadership were essential to prevent another global conflict and further economic devast ...Show more
These Truths - A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$62.95 AUD
Category: American
Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereign ...Show more
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic-devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine. But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed, incompetence, and indiffer ...Show more
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
$23.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Trump
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely m ...Show more
The Tango War - The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin America During World War II by Mary Jo McConahay
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" - A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September"Fascinating...In McConahay's telling, wartime Latin America is a hotbed of skullduggery, violence, and cinematic propaganda straight out of Hollywood." --Christian Science Monitor"A long-overdue h ...Show more
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
$48.00 AUD
Category: American
A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An awar ...Show more
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, And Madness At The Dawn Of Hollywood by MANN, WILLIAM J.
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House by Luke Harding
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
#1 New York Times Bestseller "It's a superb piece of work, wonderfully done and essential reading for anyone who cares for his country. Amazing research and brilliantly collated." John Le Carré "Collusion is so essential and ... I wish everyone who is skeptical that Russia has leverage over Trump woul ...Show more
There Are No Dead Here - A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters--a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator--whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror. Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end ...Show more
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of Ameri ...Show more