The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicentre of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Time and again, ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
Since the Clinton era, tectonic shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of First Ladies, even as the boundaries set upon them have at times remained frustratingly anachronistic. With sharp insights and dozens of firsthand interviews with major players in the Biden, Oba ...Show more
The CIA: An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support i ...Show more
Camera Girl - The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera ...Show more
In True Face - A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked by Jonna Mendez
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stati ...Show more
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow
$75.00 AUD
Category: American
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.’ Time In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a ...Show more
Fire Island - A Queer History by Jack Parlett
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O'Hara's poetry; the bars where ...Show more
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materiall ...Show more