Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an in ...Show more
Gough Whitlam: His Time Updated Edition by Jenny Hocking
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Gough Whitlam, Australia's twenty-first prime minister, swept to power in December 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. In barely three years Whitlam's dramatic reform agenda would transform Australia. It was an ascendancy bitterly resented by some, never accepted by others, and ended w ...Show more
Rosemary by Kate Clifford Larson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and travelled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was intellectually disabled, a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous f ...Show more
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
Winner of the Nobel Prize: "For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." (Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation) From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties - and the youth and humanity of many te ...Show more
Kissinger the Idealist 1923-1968 (Kissinger #1) by Niall Ferguson
$90.00 AUD
Category: Political
Spectator, New Statesman, Telegraph, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, The times, The Economist, BBC History, Magazine, and Financila Times Books of the Year 2015. No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been so ...Show more
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man by Professor of History Garry Wills
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader an ...Show more
A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries by Tony Benn
$20.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age. With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and accountability in public life, to a background of political ...Show more
Keating by Kerry O'Brien
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more
The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush by John Sununu
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
George H. W. Bush is much too modest to brag about what he accomplished as the forty-first president of the United States. As a result, the conventional wisdom about his presidency misses many of his greatest achievements. Now this unique insider account by former chief of staff John H. Sununu finally g ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Man in the World by Andrew Fowler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
Hours of top-secret videos and hundreds of thousands of highly classified documents pour from the vaults of the most powerful nation on earth. They expose lies, hypocrisy, cover-ups and high level diplomatic gossip, making headlines around the world. Julian Assange, the Australian editor-in-chief of int ...Show more
Born to Rule: The Unauthorised Biography of Malcolm Turnbull by Paddy Manning
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Born to Rule is the unauthorised biography that unravels the many layers of the man who has just become the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. The highs and lows of Malcolm Turnbull's remarkable career are documented here in technicolour detail by journalist Paddy Manning. Based on countless interviews a ...Show more
Long Haul, the Lessons from Public Life by John Brumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
The Long Haul distils a series of practical lessons on leadership and public life from John Brumby's thirty years in politics. It offers insights into the challenges and opportunities Australia currently faces and argues for real political reform, a different future for our federation and strong leaders ...Show more