Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"An elegant, meticulously researched, and eminently readable history of the books that define us as Americans. For history buffs and book-lovers alike, McHugh offers us a precious gift."-Jake Halpern, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author"With her usual eye for detail and knack for ...Show more
Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom ...Show more
An Affair with Africa - Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continent by Alzada Carlisle Kistner
$22.50 NZD
Category: Travel
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was grippe ...Show more
Thomas Jefferson - An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his politic ...Show more
A Hero for Our Times by Ralph G. Martin
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The National Bestseller, the portrait of one of the best loved and most hated presidents in American history, whose appetites for power and sex were equally consuming, and who is more controversial in death than he ever was alive.
Toby Curtis Unfinished Business: Ki Hea Apopo by Sir Toby Curtis
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Born into poverty in 1939, Toby Curtis rose to the peak of achievement in Maoridom. His long history of leadership in education, broadcasting and the powerful Te Arawa confederation of iwi belied the challenges he had to overcome, and the legacy of colonisation that still overshadow the fields in which ...Show more
Roosevelt - The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The first political biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. A case study unmatched in american political writings (Newsweek). Index; photographs."
Black in Selma - The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. by J. L. Chestnut Jr.; Julia Cass
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
On March 7,1965, George Wallace lined a bridge in Selma with statetroopers to prevent a civil rights march to Montgomery. Among those present was 34-year-old lawyer, J. L. Chestnut, a brilliant, passionate and unflinchingly tenacious champion of a people and a cause. Black in Selma is his story. Candid ...Show more
Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
Roderick Finlayson - A Man from Another World
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992), storyteller and prophet, was one of the pioneering New Zealand writers who emerged in the 1930s. Vincent O'Sullivan once described him as 'our first writer to move with any ease or authenticity among the most vital traditions this country has'. Brown Man's Burden, his fir ...Show more
William Rolleston - a New Zealand Statesman by William Downie Stewart
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Based on papers of William Rolleston and information from his daughter Miss Helen Rolleston.