The Airman and the Carpenter by Ludovic Kennedy
$10.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Dressing in Feathers - The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture by S. Elizabeth Bird (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney releasePocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that "Disney has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible man ...Show more
A Nation of Nations - The people who cam e to America as seen through objects, prints and photographs at the Smithsonian Institution by Peter Marzio (Editor); S. Dillon Ripley (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Truman by Roy Jenkins
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
In his time, Harry S. Truman was one of the most under-rated presidents of the twentieth century. Succeeding the charismatic Roosevelt, he was often seen as an uninspiring leader, a poor diplomat and a fumbling politician. He was the first man to authorise the use of nuclear weapons, and was in office a ...Show more
Witnesses to a Vanishing America - The Nineteenth-Century Response by Lee Clark Mitchell
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Princeton Legacy Library | Reading Level: very good
Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism and manifest destiny, pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America ...Show more
Indian Baskets of the Southwest by Clara Lee Tanner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
A Common Life - Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence by Davis Laskin
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Paradise Joe's - A Cultural Sociology of a Christian College Community: - An Exploration into the Meaning and Significance of American Evangelicalis by Michael F. Sparks
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The author argues that evangelical religion represents the ideological heart of American culture, in that the inherent logic of its religious ideas has underpinned (and/or buttressed) a good many aggressive promotions and defenses of American society, domestic and international, throughout our history. ...Show more
The Nine of Us - Growing up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In her remarkable memoir, Kennedy Smith-the last surviving sibling-revisits this singular time in their lives. Filled with fascinating anecdotes and vignettes, The Nine of Us vividly depicts this large, close-knit family during a different time in American history. Kennedy Smith offers indelible, elegan ...Show more
Abrham Lincoln - Speeches and Writings1859-1865 - Speeches, Letters and Miscellaneous Writings, Presidential Messages and Poclamations by Abraham Lincoln; Don E Fehrenbacher (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: near fine
The Yankee Peddlers of Early America by J R Dolan
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The Truths We Hold - An American Journey by Kamala Harris
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times bestseller From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to ...Show more