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Caste: The Lies That Divide us by Isabel Wilkerson
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hid ...Show more
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War by Scott Anderson
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. ...Show more
The Spymasters by Chris Whipple
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only 14 men a ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. "Everybod ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Am ...Show more
We Should Have Seen It Coming - From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution by Gerald F. Seib
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
The executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal chronicles the astonishing rise, climax, and decline of one of the great political movements in American history--the forty-year reign of the conservative movement, from the election of Ronald Reagan to the Republican Party's takeover by Donald ...Show more
Evil Geniuses - The Unmaking of America: a Recent History by Kurt Andersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
When did America give up on fairness? The New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change--and charts a way back to the future. "The one book everyone must re ...Show more
Stealth War - How China Took over While America's Elite Slept by Robert Spalding
$48.00 AUD
Category: American
China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security. The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power ...Show more
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
$28.95 AUD
Category: American
With a novelist's skill and a scholar's attention to detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race and love. In a new introduction, Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello (ISBN ...Show more
The Man Who Ran Washington - The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
$70.00 AUD
Category: American
From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the C ...Show more
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
"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 Throne Is Empty - America's Abdication of Global Leadership by Ivo Daalder; James Lindsey
$48.00 AUD
Category: American
American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous.America emerged from the catastrophe of World War II convinced that global engagement and leadership were essential to prevent another global conflict and further economic devast ...Show more