The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power by Hugh White
$24.95 AUD
Category: American
The crucial question for this century is how America should respond to the rise of China. In The China Choice, strategic expert Hugh White sets out America's options in the Asian century. As China ascends, America faces a stark decision about its future. If China continues to grow, the current American ...Show more
Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America by Writers For The 99%
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Category: American
For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers' skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to the hundreds of anti-capitalist protestors who camped there overnight, and the thousands who visited to join the protest, the par ...Show more
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
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Category: American
Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, "Midnight Rising" portrays Brown's uprising in vivid colour, reveal ...Show more
After America: Get Ready for Armageddon - SIGNED by Mark Steyn
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Category: American
In his "New York Times" bestseller America Alone, author and journalist Mark Styen warned us about the impending collapse of every country in the western world except America. The good news is the west's demise is still on schedule. The bad news is America is now on the same path - and running head firs ...Show more
The White House : The President's Home in Photographs and History by Vicki Goldberg
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Category: American
THE WHITE HOUSE: THE PRESIDENT'S HOME IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND HISTORY covers every aspect of White House Life over the past 200 years. Witness multiple refurbishments to the house, media coverage and popular photography of the White House, and photos of its illustrious inhabitants, visitors, and even pets an ...Show more
American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
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Category: American
A group biography of the twelve caesars of our time: American Presidents from Roosevelt to George W. Bush. The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
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Category: American
'Strange Days Indeed' tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of Western politics and culture in the 1970s.
That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back? by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
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Category: American
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic defic ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
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Category: American
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
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Category: American
Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards fo ...Show more
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire
In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through fou ...Show more
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm
$32.95 AUD
Category: American
Describes a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.