A Race Against Death - Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust by David S. Wyman; Rafael Medoff
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark bestseller, The Abandonment of the Jews, David Wyman exhaustively detailed America's failure to help rescue the victims of Nazi genocide. But one man, Peter Bergson, led a tireless battle against that tide of indifference, making it impossible for American leaders to plead ignorance of t ...Show more
The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945-1993 by Gaddis Smith
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
When President Monroe issued his 1823 doctrine on U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere, it quickly became as sacred to Americans as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But in the years after World War II - notably in Guatemala in 1954, in Brazil in 1963, in Chile in 1973, and in El Sa ...Show more
The One Percent Doctrine : Deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Price of Loyalty" takes readers inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the United States and a growing, shadowy army of terrorists armed with weapons of alarming power. First published June 20 ...Show more
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In this gripping, brilliantly reported, and sure to be news-making book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind tells the complete story of the nation's financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming "Wall Street", rescuing an economy on the verge of c ...Show more
The Killing Of Robert F Kennedy by Dan E Moldea
$10.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; his death the following day stunned a nation still recovering from John F. Kennedys assassination five years earlier. Officials insisted, however, that this was not "another Dallas": this was an open-and-sh ...Show more
Kennedy's Quest for Victory - American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963 by Thomas G. Paterson (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The first major reassessment of John F. Kennedy's foreign policy since his death, this volume of original essays compels new thinking about the 1960s. Basing their analysis on extensive research in archival documents and oral histories, twelve accomplished historians explore the primary foreign policy a ...Show more
Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America by Steven H. Shiffrin
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech. He contends, however, that the country's major i ...Show more
Politics by Hendrik Hertzberg
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Well-crafted and class-tested, this guide to figure drawing features a unique teaching method. It focuses on learning to draw complete figures prior to the study of individual components, and it stresses action figures rather than the customary static examples favored by most drawing and anatomy texts. ...Show more
Abuse of Power - The New Nixon Tapes by Stanley I. Kutler
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American histor ...Show more
Days of Destiny - Crossroads in American History: America's Greatest Historians Examine Thirty-One Uncelebrated Days that Changes the Course of History by James M. McPherson; Alan Brinkley; David Rubel (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
America's greatest historians examine thirty-one uncelebrated days that changed the course of history There are moments in American history when something old ends and something new begins. These are the days of destiny. We asked some of the most respected (and best-selling) historians of our time to ch ...Show more
The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
"The Dark Side" is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the U.S. has made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that have not only violated the Constitution and American values, but have also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. Fi ...Show more
Kennedy and Nixon - The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America by Chris Matthews
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
In this compelling, smart, and well-researched dual biography, Chris Matthews shows how the contest between the charismatic John F. Kennedy and the talented yet haunted Richard Nixon propelled America toward Vietnam and Watergate. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon each dreamed of becoming the great youn ...Show more