Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise by Jack Parlett
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
A scintillating, richly peopled, impeccably researched history of the New York coastal enclave that, over the last century, became an iconic site of queer liberation.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, ...Show more
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
$22.00 AUD
Category: American
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing st ...Show more
Watergate - A New History by Garrett M. Graff
$49.99 AUD
Category: American
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of our modern era.In ...Show more
It Could Happen Here - Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable--And How We Can Stop It by Jonathan Greenblatt
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
"Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book."--Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today--and how we can save ourselves It's almost impossible to imagine that unbridled hate and systematic vi ...Show more
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It by Matthew Teague, Mark Bowden
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
Veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing ...Show more
The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
'One of the most monstrous enterprises in the annals of international history,' said Karl Marx. 'A madness without parallel since Don Quixote,' said a future French president. This is history's judgement on the events surrounding the ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico, the young Austrian archduke w ...Show more
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor D Hanson
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship. Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the "citizen" is historically rare--and was among America's most va ...Show more
Invisible Child - Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty and racism in an unequal America. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, ...Show more
How the Word Is Passed: A Journey Across the country that Black America Built by Clint Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: American | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping America's collective history.It is t ...Show more
Norse America - The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse acro ...Show more
Thinking In Time by Neustadt, Richard Elliott, May, Ernest R.
$50.00 AUD
Category: American