Bob Ellis: In His Own Words by Bob Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
Compiled by Anne Brooksbank Introduction by Jack Ellis and reflection by Les Murray. Bob Ellis: In His Own Words showcases the best of Ellis's celebrated and much-loved essays, speeches, diaries and scripts, in addition to previously unpublished work, archival photos, and reflections from close friends ...Show more
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Satchel "comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone ...Show more
Paul Keating by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
"Drawing on extensive interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whit ...Show more
Knowing Mandela by John Carlin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
A personal tribute to the great Nelson Mandela, one of the iconic figures of our time, written by the acclaimed South Africa correspondent and author of the international bestseller Playing the Enemy (filmed as Invictus) who has been reporting on Mandela since the 1990s. After serving twenty-seven years ...Show more
The Independent Member for Lyne by Rob Oakeshott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From deep inside the last Parliament, Rob Oakeshott reveals the real story of being an independent during the Gillard government.
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi A. Annan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
Over forty years of service to the United Nations - the last ten as Secretary-General - Kofi Annan has been at the centre of the major geopolitical events of our time. Drawing on his recollections of major figures from Tony Blair to George W. Bush, Yasser Arafat to Yitzhak Rabin, Saddam Hussein to Nelso ...Show more
Joh for PM by Paul Davey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for PM reveals for the first time the details of the campaign that rocked Australian politics. In 1987 the Queensland Premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, launched an audacious bid to break the federal Opposition Coalition, replace Ian Sinclair as National Party leader, ...Show more
Zola and the Victorians: Censorship in the Age of Hypocrisy by Eileen Horne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
London, 1888: Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel; national strikes and social unrest threaten the status quo; a grave economic crisis is spreading across the Atlantic ...Yet Her Majesty's government is preoccupied with "a mere book" - or rather, a series of books: new translations of the ...Show more
Billy: My Life As A Teenage POW by Lynette Silver, Billy Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Billys Story: My Life as a Teenage POW has been compiled from a personal chronicle penned by Billy Young throughout the 1970s, supplemented by hundreds of conversations that Lynette and Billy have shared in the course of their close friendship spanning more than two decades. It is the only first-hand pu ...Show more
My Kennedy Years: A Memoir by Jacques Lowe
$49.95 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
Fifty years after his assassination on 22 November 1963, John F. Kennedy is still a towering figure in the history of our times and across the world. Jacques Lowe was the official photographer of JFK's campaign for the presidency as well as his personal photographer following his election in 1960. Over ...Show more