Night Flyer - Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles; Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Series edited by)
$60.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Significations Ser.
From the National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill ...Show more
Apprentice in Wonderland - How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh
$65.00 AUD
Category: American
From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, the never-fully-told, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump and The Apprentice, the long-running reality series that catapulted him to the White House. Here for the first time is the definitive untold st ...Show more
When the Clock Broke - Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
"John Ganz is the most important young political writer of his generation--just the one our dark moment needs." --Rick Perlstein "Lively and kaleidoscopic." --Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker "John Ganz belongs to a species of public intellectual that is almost extinct . . . When the Clock Broke is the ...Show more
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by John Swanson Jacobs
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs--brother of Harriet Jacobs--was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs's long-lost ...Show more
In True Face - A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked by Jonna Mendez
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer statio ...Show more
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an ...Show more
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 by Angela Y. Davis
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition- Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and ...Show more
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here:The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestelling author of Say Nothing and Empire of PainNew Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America's southern border for nearly ...Show more
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow
$75.00 AUD
Category: American
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel ...Show more
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D. Cohan
$40.00 AUD
Category: American
A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporation Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, ...Show more
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