Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic by Emily Apter
Category: Politics
Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book proposes a ...Show more
Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation by Kerry-Anne Walsh
Category: Politics
Pauline Hanson claims to represent the average Australian but The Stalking of Julia Gillard's Kerry-Anne Walsh has discovered nothing could be further from the truth.
A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke
Category: Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots str ...Show more
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
Category: Politics | Series: Trump
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely m ...Show more
The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson
Category: Politics
An instant New York Times bestseller: From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history -- and why America needs him now more than ever In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and politica ...Show more
Dying of Whiteness - How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
Category: Politics
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politician ...Show more
How to Lose a Country - The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
Category: Politics
An urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe - before it's too late. 'It couldn't happen he ...Show more
How to Be Right in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien
Category: Politics
The voice of reason in a world that won't shut up. The Sunday Times Bestseller Every day, James O'Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers at the EU and feminists for destroying Britain. But what makes James's d ...Show more
Amity and Prosperity - One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Category: Politics
Seven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and of one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her sm ...Show more
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry A. Kissinger
Category: Politics
In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and state ...Show more
The First Casualty: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism by Peter Greste
Category: Politics
In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journalism has become the new battleground. Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world's most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged with threat ...Show more
The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Category: Politics | Series: Indigenous Americas Ser.
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preocc ...Show more