Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
$65.00 AUD
Category: American | Reading Level: very good
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
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags - Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis
$35.00 AUD
Category: American | Reading Level: very good
Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working ...Show more
The Witches - Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$32.99 AUD
Category: American | Reading Level: very good
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated m ...Show more
They Made America by Harold Evans
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
A history of the United States' major inventors and innovators includes coverage of such figures as Henry and Edsel Ford, cosmetics entrepreneur C. J. Walker, and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
$32.99 AUD
Category: American
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.Paul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest footballer of his era, even before he ascended to global superstardom as a singer, Hollywood actor, and activist. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson stunned audiences with 'Ol' Man River' and Othello, as his pa ...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
They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine by Harold Evans
$85.00 AUD
Category: American
The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating system. These and scores of others are the characters that populate Harold Evans's rollicking, brilliant history of the men and women who made America great. Vast and ...Show more
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
$19.99 AUD
Category: American | Series: Bryson Ser.
In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. It was the summer tha ...Show more
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 (American Remainders) by Laurence Bergreen
$24.99 AUD
Category: American
He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between people. He e ...Show more
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
$19.95 AUD
Category: American | Reading Level: good
"The Untold History of the United States" is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick's riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire - the most powerful and dominant nation the world has ever seen. Probing the dark corners of the administrations of 17 presidents, fr ...Show more
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by ADLER, WILLIAM M
$29.99 AUD
Category: American