King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical vision and importance. Now, in King, we get the most comprehensive and complete portrait ever written about this iconic figure.The first major ...Show more
Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms by Margaret Simons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A fascinating portrait of one of Australia's most influential women Elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye - and is the longest-serving woman in Australia's House of Representatives. But how much do we know about what drives ...Show more
G-Man - J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
$80.00 AUD
Category: Political
"Masterful...This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"--The Washington Post"This is a monumental work about power, responsibility, and democracy itself." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of American Li ...Show more
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Andy Borowitz, "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.The winner of the first-ever National Press Cl ...Show more
So Help Me God by Mike Pence
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
The autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence. Loyalty is a Vice President’s first duty; but there is a greater one—to God and the Constitution. Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On the surface, the affable evangelical Christian from a gas-station-ownin ...Show more
Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor by Andrew Kirtzman
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
What happened to Rudy Giuliani? That is the question millions of Americans have asked about this once-beloved leader. Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this fascinating biography. Giuliani was hailed after 9/11 as “America’s Mayor,” a singular fig ...Show more
The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 by Zachary Gorman
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
How did Menzies develop as the giant of Australian politics? Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving prime minister, he transformed and ultimately dominated the political landscape, implementing policies that laid the foundations of modern Australia ...Show more
A Long View From the Left: From the CPA to the ALP, a lifetimes of fighting for Australian workers' rights by Max Ogden
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
A Long View From the Left is a memoir by Max Odgen, a longtime Australian Communist Party member, Unionist and, from 1985, ALP member. The memoir traces Maxs 60 years as a union and political activist, as well as the changing social and cultural values of Australian society over this time, and reveals m ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of ...Show more
The Secret by Alexandra Smith
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with grace and a steady hand. To many Australians, she was 'The Woman Who Saved Australia' for the way in which she navigate ...Show more
Gladys: Staying Strong by Andrew L. Urban
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
ICAC’s witch hunt exposed: How ICAC unjustly pursued Gladys Berejiklian in Operation Keppel while targeting her then boyfriend Darryl Maguire MP, failing to recognise how state politics operates. Is anything permissible in the pursuit of political corruption and does the end justify the means? The NSW I ...Show more
The Fight of Our Lives - My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of ...Show more