Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'This is the book Trump fears most.' - Axios From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortur ...Show more
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
$27.00 AUD
Category: American
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA; an international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film. 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.' - The New York Times 'S ...Show more
Made in America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Bryson
"Funny, wise, learned and compulsive." (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Ro ...Show more
The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
$23.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: history of the Americas
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...Show more
When the Clock Broke - Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
"John Ganz is the most important young political writer of his generation--just the one our dark moment needs." --Rick Perlstein "Lively and kaleidoscopic." --Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker "John Ganz belongs to a species of public intellectual that is almost extinct . . . When the Clock Broke is the fi ...Show more
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; a Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by John Swanson Jacobs; Jonathan D. S. Schroeder (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs--brother of Harriet Jacobs--was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs's long-lost ...Show more
The Playbook - Theatre, Democracy, and the Rise of America's Culture Wars by James Shapiro
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.
The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
The story of the groundbreaking Dance Theatre of Harlem, established by the first Black principal of the NYC Ballet, Arthur Mitchell, and five Black ballerinas who excelled despite the odds.
A Fever in the Heartland - The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equ ...Show more
Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster; Spencer Ostrander
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post 'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph No issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into his own past, knowing first-hand how families ...Show more
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an ...Show more
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book R ...Show more