Joe Biden - American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A concise, brilliant and incisive examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency This definitive history of Joe Biden tells the poignant story of the man – both his life in politics and the series of personal tragedies that have marked him – drawing on extensive co ...Show more
The General & the Texas - A Pictorial History of the Andrews Raid, April 12 1862 by Stan Cohen; James G. Bogle
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
One of the most famous commando-type raids of the Civil War comes to life! Twenty Union soldiers and two civilians hijacked a train. Their mission - to head north and destroy bridges, rails and rolling stock on the Western & Atlantic Railroad connecting Atlanta and Chattanooga. As the Raiders headed ...Show more
The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good
Mayday - Eisenhower, Krushchev and the U-2 Affair by Michael R. Beschloss
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The paperback release of the compulsively readable, world-class thriller that exposes the true story behind the greatest espionage affair--that of Francis Gary Power's 1960 CIA U-2 spy plane flight into Soviet airspace--since World War II. Illustrated.
On the Firing Line - The Public Life of Our Public Figures by William F. Buckley Jr.
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Writing out of the unique experience of 23 years of the Firing Line television series, Bill Buckley, in his inimitable style, and his astonishing guests relive and explore many of the main issues of this quarter of the 20th century in excerpts and commentary. A provocative book full of discussion, firew ...Show more
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
"Turn: Washington's Spies" - Now a new original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shado ...Show more
The Colonel - The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955 by Richard Norton Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
As editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Robert R. McCormick came to personify his city. Drawing on McCormack's personal papers and years of research, Robert Norton Smith has written the definitive life of the towering figure known as The Colonel.
Where We Go from Here - Two Years in the Resistance by Bernie Sanders
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
During his campaign for President in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders repeatedly stated that the future of America was dependent upon its willingness to start a political revolution. Real change never occurs from the top down — it always happens from the bottom up. That’s what he said when he ran for Presid ...Show more
Aftershock - The next economy and America's future by Robert B. Reich
$12.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which ...Show more
The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito and Brad Todd
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order by Stefan Halper & Jonathan Clarke
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
America Alone explores how George W. Bush's election, and the fear and confusion of September 11, 2001, combined to allow a small group of radical intellectuals to seize the reins of U.S. national security policy. It shows how, at this 'inflection point' in U.S. history an inexperienced president was pe ...Show more
Island of Hope, Island of tears - The story of those who entered the New World through Ellis Island - in their own words by David M. Brownstone et al.
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good