Clive: The Story of Clive Palmer by Sean Parnell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
Big-spending Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer bought a football team, helped create a political party, and is set to recreate the 'Titanic' and build a dinosaur park. But are these just fanciful splurges or something more calculated? The reality is that Palmer uses his immense mining wealth (estimate ...Show more
Secrets A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this remarkable memoir, Ellsberg describes in detail the two years he spent in Vietnam as a U.S. State Department observer, and how he risked his career and freedom to expose the deceptions and delusions that shaped three decades of American foreign policy.
Margaret Thatcher:The Autobiography by Margaret Thatcher
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Margaret Thatcher is the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. No other prime minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically as she did. This is the story of her remarkable life in her own words - the definitive account of an extraordi ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on ...Show more
Everybody Matters: A Memoir by Mary Robinson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of the Year The first woman President of Ireland, who became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world. Now, for the first time, she reveals what lies behind the vision, strength and ...Show more
Gough Whitlam: His Time by Jenny Hocking
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
Gough Whitlam, Australia's twenty-first prime minister, swept to power in December 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. It was an ascendancy bitterly resented by some, never accepted by others, and ended with dismissal by the Governor-General barely three years later an outcome that pol ...Show more
Michael Kirby: Law, Love & Life by Daryl Dellora
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
For most of his life, Michael Kirby has been a man on a tightrope. A person of strong views working in a world governed by objectivity, he has had to balance the potent, sometimes contradictory impulses of passion and duty, honesty and discretion, advocacy and neutrality. He had to hide his real self fr ...Show more
Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage by Jeffrey Frank
$42.00 AUD
Category: Political
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had a political and private relationship that lasted nearly twenty years, a tie that survived hurtful slights, tense misunderstandings, and the distance between them in age and temperament. Yet the two men brought out the best and worst in each other, and their ass ...Show more
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume IV - The Passage of Power : by Robert A Caro
$38.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Vintage
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NAMED BY "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"The fourth volume of Caro's prodigious masterwork . . . with the author's signature combination of sweeping drama, psychological insight and painstaking research."NAMED ONE OF "TIME "MAGA ...Show more
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady by John Campbell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party to her eleven tumultuous years in Downing Street and her ...Show more
American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop by Caroline De Margerie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The fascinating story of one of the grand dames of Georgetown society and a true Washington insider An American aristocrat--a descendant of founding father John Jay--Susan Mary Alsop (1918-2004)with husband, Joe Alsop, brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but the world. ...Show more
Comandante: Inside Hugo Chavez's Venezuela by Rory Carroll
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
Hugo Chavez was a true phenomenon. On his death in March 2013 tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets and honoured a seven-day period of national mourning. Chavez has been compared to Napoleon, Nasser, Peron and Castro but the truth is there has never been a leader like him. He was democrat ...Show more