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 origins of our discontents 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
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsymp ...Show more
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
A short, sharp nonfiction modern classic on the political and societal state of America - how America got into this mess, and how it might get out of it - by one of the world's greatest nonfiction writersAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed ...Show more
Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work -- the determinative work -- in this field ... Terrifying.'--Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years ...Show more
Radical Hope by LEAR JONATHAN
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened."It is precisely this point-that of a ...Show more
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
$80.00 AUD
Category: American
One ofO, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one ofVogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of andCosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one ofThe Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want to Miss, and one of ...Show more
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Ph.D. Trump
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
America: the Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
$27.00 AUD
Category: American
Is America in a state of irrevocable decline? In this provocative and disturbing examination of our country, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges argues that the United States shows unmistakable signs of a dying culture. America's social fabric is unraveling, while at the same time we face glo ...Show more