Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed America by Jonathan Chait
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded he ...Show more
American Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Richard M. Valelly
$18.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
This book introduces the vital elements of American politics, emphasizing how these elements have evolved into the form they take today. By using a historical-institutional approach to the various parts of American politics, Valelly communicates that the American political system is, and always has been ...Show more
Alt America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right" figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influ ...Show more
All in the Family - The Realignment of American Democracy since The 1960s by Robert O. Self
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have soug ...Show more
Albanese Telling it Straight by Karen Middleton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The moving personal story behind the very public political face of Labor's Anthony Albanese, written with the cooperation of Albo. As much a window on the recent turbulent years of politics u from the man who was often in the middle of the room where everything was happening, and who became the Deputy P ...Show more
A Short History of Stupid: The Decline of Reason and Why Public Debate Makes Us Want to Scream by Helen Razer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How did everything get so dumb?..How did we become hostages to idiocy?..What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom note simply reads, 'D'oh'?..The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to despair and rage. It ...Show more
Abbott's Right by Damien Freeman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Tony Abbott may have been a Rhodes Scholar, but some commentators are convinced that he offered nothing more than three-word slogans. Abbott's Right challenges this perception, and presents Abbott as someone who rejoices in the political battle of ideas. It looks at how the contemporary conservative voi ...Show more
Windsor's Way (Updated Edition) by Tony Windsor
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Category: Politics
Traitor or saviour? Tony Windsor has been called both in his 22-year political career, but never more often than when he supported Julia Gillard's government in 2010. And now he's back. After three years in retirement, Tony Windsor refuses to stand by and watch regional Australia relegated to being take ...Show more
Way Beyond Satire by Rowan Dean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Following the turbulent, crazy, roller-coaster years of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, by late 2013 Australians were looking forward to a steady new era of boring, conservative, grown-up government under Tony Abbott and his Coalition. Little did they know, the real fun had just begun. In this hilarious s ...Show more
What a Time to be Alive: That and Other Lies in the 2016 Campaign by Mark Di Stefano
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Category: Politics
What a Time to be Alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign is the ugly and un-sanitised diary behind the curtain of the double dissolution election campaign. A poll fought between two wildly ambitious men who want to win their first election, whatever it takes. Mark Di Stefano finds out what is h ...Show more
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff; David Corn
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Category: Politics
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. RUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. I ...Show more
The Road to Ruin: The bestselling prequel to Plots and Prayers by Niki Savva
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Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
'There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.'-Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015Abbott's performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was inconsistent, and -?his colleagues thought?-?slightly ridiculous ...Show more