The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power by Kim Ghattas
$20.00 AUD
Category: Political
In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair America's image around the world - and her own. For the following four years, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her ento ...Show more
Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somalian Woman Changed 90,000 Lives by Dr. Hawa Abdi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist militia groups have been battling for control of th ...Show more
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Thomas Keneally
$19.95 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Lives Biographies (Paperback)
The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In ...Show more
A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide by Leah Chishugi
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead under a pile of corpses. She fled with her son to Ugand ...Show more
The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs
$17.00 AUD
Category: Political
Over the years that followed-and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secre ...Show more
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year by David Von Drehle
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation's historyAs 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely ill. The Confede ...Show more
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Political
In this magisterial new work "The Patriarch," the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Nasaw--the only biographer granted unrestricted access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers in the John F. Kenned ...Show more
The Imperial Messenger : Thomas Friedman at Work by Belen Fernandez
$22.95 AUD
Category: Political
Thomas Friedman has been a New York Times foreign affairs columnist since 1995. He is said by many to be a principled observer of international events and an even-handed analyst of American policy. But Belen Fernandez's acerbic close reading of Friedman's voluminous oeuvre reveals instead a ham-fisted a ...Show more
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
$49.95 AUD
Category: Political
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Lion" and "Franklin and Winston" brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forev ...Show more
Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that ...Show more
Tony Speaks!: The Wisdom of the Abbott... by BLACK INC.
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political
You've seen him wearing speedos, kissing babies, driving a mining truck and chatting to his flock. But who is the real Tony Abbott? As the Bible says, by his words you shall know him. He's a concerned parent: 'I won't be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated (against cervical cancer).' A philanthro ...Show more