Penguin Books Australia

A compelling narrative that unveils behind-the-scenes account of America's biggest political scandals of the 20th century.

The USA is now the world's lone superpower, whose deeds could make or break this century. For better and worse, America has Americanised the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why...

After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic-our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and despair, death and resurrection in a 'new birth of freedom.' Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, The Civil War: The First Year gathers over 120 pieces by...

The second volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a 'masterpiece' (Malcolm Jones, Newsweek )

'Viscerally dramatic . . . spellbinding . . . Both Martin Luther King and James Earl Ray come to life in these remarkable pages'
THE NEW YORK TIMES

'The narrative races along, a deadly road trip heading to a disastrous conclusion . . . has the pace and excitement of a classic thriller'
OBSERVER

THE LAW OF THE LAND IN A HANDY REFERENCE YOU CAN TAKE ANYWHERE

THE STORY OF OUR NATION FROM THE A – BOMB TO THE iPHONE

'TRULY MAGNIGICIENT . . . [A] WELL-RESEARCHED, WELL-WRITTEN, AND ABSOLUTELY DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY.'
- ANDREW ROBERTS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric.  Celebrate the bicentennial of his birth with this expanded new edition of his greatest speeches and writings.

George Catlin's masterwork—a rich and unique tribute to a lost way of life

A new selection of the most significant writings by America's second president

'Riveting . . . the reader is swept along . . . one can hardly overestimate the brilliance of Foreman's conception . . . a shimmering tapestry'  JAY PARINI, GUARDIAN

No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J.K. Galbraith examines the 'gold rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the fabulous Shenandoah Corporation all come together in this penetrating...

'IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL ABOUT LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND CULTURE . . . EVERYTHING OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE . . . READ THIS BOOK'  Evening Standard
 

'An enthralling tale'  Alan Marshall, Daily Telegraph

Acclaimed as one of the best recent histories of the United States, America, Empire of Liberty tells the epic story of the nation that has shaped the world we live in today.

'A fascinating portrait . . . Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd . . . Warburg is an emblem of money as it ought to be, and now isn't' 
Bryan Appleyard, New Statesman

They were perhaps the most powerful, ruthless, flawed and fascinating duo in modern times: President Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. Both had risen from nothing to conquer the world stage, both were ambitious, manipulative, relentlessly driven and plagued by inner demons. And both mistrusted everyone around them - including each other.

In 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.

As president. Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that have all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art.