Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump by Liz Cheney
$35.00 AUD
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
$70.00 AUD
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
Killers of the Flower Moon - Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
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Category: American
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME, SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION, SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE NIRO** 'A riveting true story ...Show more
The Kennedys - An American Drama by Peter Collier; David Horowitz
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Category: American | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family ...Show more
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin
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Category: American
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection--from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War vete ...Show more
P.S. Burn This Letter Please by Craig Olsen
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society, determined to live authentically, despite the atte ...Show more
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
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Category: American
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materiall ...Show more