The Warmth of Other Suns - The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS C ...Show more
The Organ Thieves - The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in America's Segregated South by Chip Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart stolen out of his body and put into th ...Show more
Reading Matters - Narrative in the New Media Ecology by Joseph Tabbi (Editor); Michael Wutz (Editor)
$76.00 AUD
Category: American
The convergence of twentieth-century narrative and technology is one of the most important developments in current literary study. Roughly a decade after the founding of the Society for Literature and Science, and after the appearance of such influential books as Kathleen Woodward's Culture of Informati ...Show more
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
$60.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along - a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and edit ...Show more
GENERATION KILL by Evan Wright
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battali ...Show more
Surviving Genocide - Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Jeffrey Ostler
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
"Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how A ...Show more
The Spymasters by Chris Whipple
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only 14 men a ...Show more
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
$29.95 AUD
Category: American
The challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has attempted it in decades. When Jill Lepore's New York Times best-selling These Truths appeared in 2018, critics quickly hailed it as a classic--appealing not only to aca ...Show more
The History of the Aryan Brotherhood by Gabriel Morales
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
"The History of the Aryan Brotherhood" starts at San Quentin, follows at Folsom Prison, and other California institutions, into the Federal system, to other states, and out on the street. See why the AB is feared everywhere. The Author took passages from his earlier book, "Prison Gangs in America", expa ...Show more
The Grifters' Club - Trump, Mar-A-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency by Sarah Blaskey; Caitlin Ostroff; Nicholas Nehamas; Jay Weaver
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
An astonishing look inside the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with little regard for ethics, security, or even the law Donald Trump's opulent Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago has thrummed with scandal since the earliest days of his presidenc ...Show more
The Storm Before the Calm - America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond by George Friedman
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years. George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics ...Show more
Every Drop of Blood by Edward Achorn
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractab ...Show more