Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.There is a c ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now. Michelle Duff d ...Show more
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story by Sebastian Payne
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times.Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book AwardsA New Statesman, The Times, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year ...Show more
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
***Chosen as a 2023 non-fiction highlight in the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Tablet and Irish Times***While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for ...Show more
I am Tim: Life, Politics and Beyond by Peter Rees
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
A heartfelt look at the life of a man who placed his role as a father with an autistic son above his service to the country as deputy prime minister 'My name is Tim, and that is what I want you to call me, except if another officer is present and especially if it is the CO, Lt Col Bennett, then I am Si ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion and Principle by Margaret Simons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide.In this first-ever biography of Wong, acclaimed jou ...Show more
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center of a media storm, accused of hacking and later sexu ...Show more
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century by Beverley Gage
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation a ...Show more
The Trials of Harry S. Truman - The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 by Jeffrey Frank
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how so ordinary a man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th ce ...Show more
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical vision and importance. Now, in King, we get the most comprehensive and complete portrait ever written about this iconic figure.The first major ...Show more
Tanya Plibersek: On Her Own Terms by Margaret Simons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A fascinating portrait of one of Australia's most influential women Elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye - and is the longest-serving woman in Australia's House of Representatives. But how much do we know about what drives ...Show more
G-Man - J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
$80.00 AUD
Category: Political
"Masterful...This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"--The Washington Post"This is a monumental work about power, responsibility, and democracy itself." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of American Li ...Show more