The Soul of America - The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
With clarity and purpose, Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called "the better ...Show more
America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
A timely, provocative expose of the US's political and business leadership's deep ties to China- a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests.The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and ...Show more
New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns
$120.00 AUD
Category: American
A revised and expanded edition of the landmark, ravishing history of New York City-the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series-that begins in 1624 and brings its 400-year-long story up to the current moment.This edition of the biography of this great and ever-evolving city includes two new chapters ...Show more
Peru - A Journey in Time by Cecilia Pardo; Jago Cooper
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
The environments of the Central Andean region in Peru, South America, are some of the most geographically rich and diverse in the world. This publication highlights the history, beliefs and cultural achievements of the different peoples who lived in these remarkable landscapes from 1500 BC to the arriva ...Show more
Secdef - The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense by Charles A. Stevenson
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
SECDEF offers an expert's insights into one of the most difficult jobs in Washington. Of the twenty-one men who have held the post of secretary of defense since it was created in 1947, only half served more than eighteen months. The first, James Forrestal, committed suicide soon after leaving the Pentag ...Show more
A Cry from the Far Middle - Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry are wha ...Show more
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Payne Les Payne Tamara
$27.00 AUD
Category: American
A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Ma ...Show more
Last Men Out - The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam by Bob Drury; Tom Clavin
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
Now in paperback--a "thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss" (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the "gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975" (Booklist). In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently de ...Show more
The Ruin of All Witches - Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of WitchfindersIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits, and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sick ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America - A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
A deep dive into how big business took over American politics, from the critically acclaimed author of FantasylandHow an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain - and left the rest of world behind. Evil Geniuses is the secret history of how, over the last half century, from even before Ron ...Show more
Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
$27.00 AUD
Category: American
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hi ...Show more