All Too Human - A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos

$14.00 NZD

Category: America | Reading Level: very good

All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next five years he was rarely more than a step away from the president & his other advisers at every important moment of the first term. What Liar's Poker did to Wall Street, this book will do to politics. It is an irreverent & intimate portrait of how the nation's weighty business is conducted by people whose egos & idiosyncrasies are no sturdier than anyone else's. Including sharp portraits of the Clintons, Al Gore, Dick Morris, Colin Powell, & scores of others, as well as candid & revelatory accounts of the famous debacles & triumphs of an administration that constantly went over the top, All Too Human is, like its author, a brilliant combination of pragmatic insight & idealism. It is destined to be the most important & enduring book to come out of the Clinton administration. ...Show more

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disaster by Peter Zeihan

$16.00 NZD

Category: America | Reading Level: very good

In THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how geography, combined with demography and energy independence, is paving the way for one of the great turning points in history, and one in which America reasserts its global dominance. From a geographic standpoint, no modern country has a greater network of internal waterways, a greater command of deepwater navigation, or a firmer hold on industrialization technologies than America. Such factors have been historically significant in the success of past world powers, from the Ottoman Empire's control of the Danube, to England's mastery of the seas, to Germany's industrial infrastructure. Zeihan goes on to show how modern demographics have distorted, with America now the only developed country with enough young adults to maintain both economic growth and capital generation beyond 2020. Finally, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER explores shale oil and its surprising key role not only in America's move towards energy independence but also how it will shape (and is already shaping) American power for the next twenty years. ...Show more

The Great Upheaval - America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800 by Jay Winik

$18.00 NZD

Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good

After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn

$14.00 NZD

Category: America | Reading Level: very good

Mark Steyn's "New York Times" bestseller, "After America", is now in paperback! Featuring a new introduction and updated throughout, "After America" takes on Obama's disastrous plan for our nation, and reveals exactly what a post-American world will look like if we don't change our ways soon. Says Steyn : "Nothing is certain but debt and taxes. And then more debt. If the government of the United States had to use GAAP ("The Generally Accepted Accounting Practices" that your company and the publisher of this book have to use), Uncle Sam would be under an SEC investigation and his nephews and nieces would have taken away the keys and cut up his credit card". Slim as it is, however, Steyn argues there is still hope. "Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea-of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest-or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline. This is a battle for the American idea, and it's an epic one, but you can do anything you want to do. So do it." Bitingly funny and wickedly clever, "After America" is Mark Steyn at his best. ...Show more

The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings

$12.00 NZD

Category: Military | Reading Level: very good

General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was living large. Loyal staff liked to call him a 'rock star'. During a spring 2010 trip across Europe to garner additional Allied help for the war effort, McChrystal was accompanied by journalist Michae l Hastings of ROLLING STONE. For days, Hastings looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam, partying and openly bashing the Obama administration for what they saw as a lack of leadership. When Hastings' piece appeared a few months later, it set off a political firestorm: McChrystal was ordered to Washington, where he was unceremoniously fired. In THE OPERATORS, Hastings gives us a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of Allied military commanders, their high-stakes manoeuvres and often bitter bureaucratic in-fighting. He takes us on patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands and to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building gone awry, drawing back the curtain on a hellish complexity and, he fears, an unwinnable war. ...Show more

The Trial of Henry Kissenger by Christopher Hitchins

$10.00 NZD

Category: America | Reading Level: very good

In this incendiary book, controversial journalist Christopher Hitchens puts ex-Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger on the stand.

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan

$15.00 NZD

Category: America | Reading Level: very good

As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journali st Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning and (more often than people know) fighting these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. ...Show more

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

$12.00 NZD

Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good

No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history. In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the world. The reports revealed shocking truths about the extent to which the National S ecurity Agency had been gathering information about US citizens and intercepting communication worldwide, and were based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden to Greenwald. Including new revelations from documents entrusted to Greenwald by Snowden, this essential book tells the story of Snowden and the NSA, explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA and examines the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance program, both in the US and abroad. ...Show more

Westward Journeys - Memoirs of Jesse A Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter Who Traveled the Overland Trail by Martin Ridge (ed.)

$15.00 NZD

Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #87 | Reading Level: near fine

Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army by George Ballentine

$15.00 NZD

Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #84 | Reading Level: near fine

Mark Twain's West by Mark Twain

$15.00 NZD

Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #81 | Reading Level: near fine

The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk - Adventures in the China Seas

$15.00 NZD

Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #93 | Reading Level: near fine