Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
'One of the best pieces of sustained, rigorous journalism I've read in twenty years. It is absolutely magnificent - smart, and wry, and emotional too.' Caroline Overington When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious whit ...Show more
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that br ...Show more
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E Hoffman
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history "The Dead Hand" comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and apenetrating portrait of the CIA s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While driving out of ...Show more
Nemesis - One Man and the Battle for Rio by Misha Glenny
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil?s most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang c ...Show more
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
$19.99 AUD
Category: American
This is The New York Times Best-seller. This is a gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history. Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon,'Whitey' Bulger, godfather of the Irish Mob, waits for an o ...Show more
Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz
$27.95 AUD
Category: American
From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas from Freemasonry to Spiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to Edgar Cayce dramatically altered the nation s culture, politics, and rel ...Show more
How the Gringos Stole Tequila: The Modern Age of Mexico's Most Traditional Spirit by Chantal Martineau
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
Tequila is one of the fastest-growing spirits categories in America, the margarita the country's most popular cocktail. But no longer is it only cheap party fuel-it has become America's luxury sipping spirit. How the Gringos Stole Tequila eloquently traces this extraordinary evolution. As Chantal Marti ...Show more
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War by James Risen
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
"This is an important and powerful book that should be read by anyone who believes it is time to take stock after 13 years and re-evaluate the nature of the threat the country faces and its response to the atrocity of 9/11." --"New York Times Book Review" War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely.Ev ...Show more
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
$32.99 AUD
Category: American
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how wa ...Show more
The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington by Chairman National Air and Space Museum Gregg Herken (University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Santa Cruz Smithsonian Institution University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Santa Cruz Smithsonian Institution)
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington--a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner. In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely grou ...Show more
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
$29.99 AUD
Category: American
One FBI Agent. One Boston Gangster. One Deal. The greatest and bloodiest story of corruption ever told. James 'Whitey' Bulger and John Connolly grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston ...Show more
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly
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$45.00 (66% off)
Category: American
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident-and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year ...Show more