And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
$27.00 AUD
Category: American
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA; an international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film. 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.' - The New York Times 'S ...Show more
Made in America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Bryson
"Funny, wise, learned and compulsive." (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Ro ...Show more
The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
$23.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: history of the Americas
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...Show more
The Playbook - Theatre, Democracy, and the Rise of America's Culture Wars by James Shapiro
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.
The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
The story of the groundbreaking Dance Theatre of Harlem, established by the first Black principal of the NYC Ballet, Arthur Mitchell, and five Black ballerinas who excelled despite the odds.
In True Face - A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked by Jonna Mendez
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stati ...Show more
A Fever in the Heartland - The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equ ...Show more
Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster; Spencer Ostrander
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post 'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph No issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into his own past, knowing first-hand how families ...Show more
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an ...Show more
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book R ...Show more
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 by Angela Y. Davis
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition- Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more