Strange Days Indeed: The Golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
'Strange Days Indeed' tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of Western politics and culture in the 1970s.
That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back? by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic defic ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: American
Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards fo ...Show more
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire
In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through fou ...Show more
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm
$32.95 AUD
Category: American
Describes a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
A New York Times BestsellerBasis for the movie LincolnOn May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited for the results from the Republican National Convention. Lincoln won, Goodwin demonstrates, because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place ...Show more
Going to Extremes by Barbara Ehrenreich
$26.95 AUD
Category: American
America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp, funny and terrifying collection of pieces, Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich and poor over the past eight years has left the country increasingly divided between the gated communit ...Show more