Greetings from Trumpland by Daniel, Zoe/Whalan, Roscoe
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
Donald Trump, the mercurial US President, has had the world on a string since he declared he would run for office. He's presided over arguably the most volatile White House in history, with a revolving door for senior staff and advisors and haphazard decision making that's turned years of entrenched US ...Show more
Evil Geniuses - The Unmaking of America: a Recent History by Kurt Andersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
When did America give up on fairness? The New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change--and charts a way back to the future. "The one book everyone must re ...Show more
The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Biography by Michael J. Hogan
$47.95 AUD
Category: American
In his new book, Michael J. Hogan, a leading historian of the American presidency, offers a new perspective on John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as seen not from his life and times but from his afterlife in American memory. The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considers how Kennedy constructed a popular imag ...Show more
Just Us - A Conversation by Claudia Rankine
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
Contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which friendships, families and communities are under strain and defensiveness and aggression alike are on the rise, enshrined in federal law-making and government policy. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approa ...Show more
Gotham Rising - New York in The 1930s by Jules Stewart
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
Often described as the greatest city in the world, New York is one of the iconic cities of the world. Yet much of its architecture and culture which so defines the city we know today only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in the city' s 400 year history. Jule ...Show more
The Gettysburg Campaign - A Study in Command by Edwin B. Coddington
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
The Battle of Gettyburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America's history, and one of the most studied. Professor Coddington's is an analysis not only of the battle proper, but of the actions of both Union and Confederate armies for the six months prior to the battle and the f ...Show more
The Man Who Ran Washington - The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
$70.00 AUD
Category: American
From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world.For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Col ...Show more
JFK Volume One 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth p ...Show more
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War by Scott Anderson
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this na ...Show more
Stealth War - How China Took over While America's Elite Slept by Robert Spalding
$48.00 AUD
Category: American
China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security. The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power ...Show more
Ten Days in Harlem - Fidel Castro and the Making of The 1960s by Simon Hall
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Rising star historian Simon Hall encapsulates the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro has just arrived for the opening of the UN General Assembly. Wild rumours are circulating that the Cubans 'kil ...Show more