A Cry from the Far Middle - Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry are wha ...Show more
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth BEN-GHIAT
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Ours is the age of the strongman. Countries from Russia to India, Turkey to America are ruled by men who combine populist appeal with authoritarian policy. They have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And they do so by drawing on a pla ...Show more
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The final work of Robert Fisk, following on from the authoritative and highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation, which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitne ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ord ...Show more
A Postcard from the Future by Ben Hamer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We’re experiencing change at the fastest rate in human history, but it’s also the slowest that we’ll experience for the rest of our lives. The reality is that the world is moving faster than we’re evolutionarily equipped to deal with, which can be pretty overwhelming, particularly off the back of a glob ...Show more
Brownie: The Minister for Good Times by John Brown
$38.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Memoirs of John Brown AO, Minister for Tourism, Sport, The Arts, in the Hawke Labor Government. Written by John Brown the book covers his early years growing up in Sydney's western suburbs, winning the seat of Parramatta for the Labor party and his subsequent ministerial responsibilities. The "put a shr ...Show more
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump by Liz Cheney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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 Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Berlin Family Lectures
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literatur ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
FOUR PRESIDENTS Kennedy, Nixon, Biden, Trump: Leaders Who Changed History in Changing Times by Douglas E Schoen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
There is a great deal to learn in studying the successes and failures of Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Biden, and Trump, four presidents whose administrations coincided with dramatic societal changes and challenges. This book is a warning that our democratic form of government is in danger of collapsing an ...Show more
The Final Witness - A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence after Sixty Years by Paul Landis
$67.50 AUD
Category: Politics
Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns. Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is insid ...Show more
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet
$47.95 AUD
Category: Politics
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our national psyche where others fear to tread. The Undertow is both inquiry and meditation, an attempt to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has morphed into delusion, social division ...Show more