Our Towns - A Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows; Deborah Fallows
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and young entrepreneurs, seeking to take the pulse and discern the outlook of an America that is unreporte ...Show more
Coast of Dreams - California on the Edge, 1990-2003 by Kevin Starr
$38.00 AUD
Category: American
From O.J. to Arnold Schwarzenegger, earthquakes to rolling blackouts, silicon valley to riots in the street, California state historian Kevin Starr has assembled the history of the Golden Gate State since 1990 to create a vivid snapshot of a state constantly on the edge of tomorrow. Coast of Dreams capt ...Show more
The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
'The importance of the brave and blighted dial-painters cannot be overstated.' Sunday Times'A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific and the personal.' Bustle'Thrilling and carefully crafted.' Mail on SundayOrdinary women in 1920s America.All they wanted was the chance to shine.Be careful what ...Show more
Born Trump by Emily Jane Fox
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America's forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking what makes him tick. Born Trump is Fox's dishy, deeply reported, and richly detailed look at Trump's five ...Show more
Amity and Prosperity: The Cost of Fracking in Two American Towns by Eliza Griswold
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise ...Show more
The Briefing by Sean Spicer
$29.99 AUD
Category: American
No job is more of a pressure cooker than being a White House press secretary...especially in this White House. For more than two decades, Sean Spicer had been a respected political insider, working as a campaign and communications strategist. But in December 2016, he got the call of a lifetime. Preside ...Show more
The Hellhound of Wall Street - How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance by Michael Perino
$34.00 AUD
Category: American
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscat ...Show more
The Killing of Uncle Sam - The Demise of the United States of America by Rodney Howard-Browne; Paul L. Williams
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable - including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destructive "invisible" global leaders on Earth. But how did this happen on American soil? How did the downfall begin and who were the predators that the " ...Show more
Something Wonderful Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum
$44.99 AUD
Category: American
They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Ham ...Show more
A History of the United States in Five Crashes - Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation by Scott Nations
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
In this compelling, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a longtime trader, financial engineer, and CNBC contributor, takes us on a journey through the five significant stock market crashes of the last century and how they defined today's America. The names have e ...Show more
God Save Texas - A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
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Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West; Mary Lynn Kotz
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's first families. J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue--and coordinated its daily life--at the req ...Show more