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Spying on the South - An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz
$59.99 AUD
Category: American
The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it du ...Show more
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
$26.99 AUD
Category: American
World Without Endis the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary proje ...Show more
Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East by Daniel Burwen
$32.99 AUD
Category: American
The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers are taking an increased interest in the ruling political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a generation, with the tacit approval of the Shah, but the landscape there has started to cha ...Show more
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects by Richard Kurin
$59.99 AUD
Category: American
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of ...Show more
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen
$19.99 AUD
Category: American
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, ...Show more
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
$59.99 AUD
Category: American
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette - the one Frenchman we could all agree on - and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
"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
Hamilton: The Revolution (HB) by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter; Simon Trewin
$65.00 AUD
Category: American
A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda. ...Show more
New York City in 3D - the Gilded Age - A Book Plus a Stereoscopic Viewer, and 50 3D Photos from the Turn of the Century by Dinah Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: American
This innovative package includes a metal stereoscopic viewer and 50 stereoscopic photographs. The kit includes an accompanying 112-page paperback that provides a brief history of the stereograph craze and an overview of the city's evolution. New York City in the Gilded Age paperback details the rapid gr ...Show more
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
$42.95 AUD
Category: American
"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience". -- The New York Times"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like w ...Show more