Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women they Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse--the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and--above all else--integrity. But this carefully ...Show more
The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
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Category: American
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support ...Show more
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestelling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America's southern border for near ...Show more
Demon Of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War by Erik Larson
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Category: American
The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky ...Show more
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D. Cohan
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Category: American
A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporation Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, ...Show more
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump by Liz Cheney
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Category: American
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violen ...Show more
The Rediscovery of America - Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U. S. History by Ned Blackhawk
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Category: American
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America "In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental--either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative s ...Show more
Profiles in Ignorance - How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz
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Category: American
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Andy Borowitz, "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly "chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism" (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, fro ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
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Category: American
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
Blood in the Fields - Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang by Julia Reynolds
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece, East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in America. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control dr ...Show more
Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway by Randall Sullivan
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Category: American
A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure and memoir, bringing to life one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world.
American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time by Wesley Lowery
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the USA. And so it would be - just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The ...Show more