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Strom Thurmond's America by Joseph Crespino
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Joseph Crespino [Crespino, Joseph]

10 ANNUS MIRABILIS (1968) On June 22, 1968, Strom Thurmond endorsed Richard Nixon to be the next president of the United States. The announcement dumbfounded political observers in South Carolina ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 2,2020 )
Life of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Alexander Berkman

Despite the signs that the Russian Revolution was heading toward a future diametrically opposed to the ideals that inspired it, Berkman—on hearing of the “Red Scare” in the United States ...
( Category: Anarchism August 2,2020 )
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Samantha Power

Just before he had left the United States, Ibrahim had become engaged to Marcia Luar, an Angolan. As the weeks passed, Luar grew suspicious that Ibrahim might be straying with ...
( Category: Political August 2,2020 )
The Man Who Remade India by Vinay Sitapati
epub |eng | 2018-08-15 | Author:Vinay Sitapati

A year into Rao’s premiership, the opposition parties were coming to the same conclusion as Arjun Singh: the prime minister was not going to fall on his own; he needed ...
( Category: Asian August 2,2020 )
Frank by Barney Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Barney Frank

8 DEFENDING CLINTON Ever since 1993, I’d been defending both Clintons from Republican attacks on their integrity. Serving on the Financial Services Committee, I observed the investigation into the Clintons’ ...
( Category: LGBT August 2,2020 )
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life (Jewish Encounters) by Shimon Peres & David Landau
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Shimon Peres & David Landau [Peres, Shimon]

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 2,2020 )
Churchill by David Cannadine
epub |eng | | Author:David Cannadine

8. ‘SEA POWER’ IN ART Speech at the art exhibition opening, New Burlington Galleries, London, 27 July 1937 I noticed this morning in The Times an appreciative criticism which nevertheless ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 1,2020 )
Drumblair by Rachel Manley
epub |eng | 1996-08-14 | Author:Rachel Manley

Later that evening, after he had walked the aunts to their cars, Pardi joined us on the steps to meditate at the edge of a world where the moon wandered ...
( Category: Political August 1,2020 )
Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 911 by Robert W. Jordan & Steve Fiffer
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Robert W. Jordan & Steve Fiffer [Jordan, Robert W.]

8 What’s more improbable? Watching a Jewish U.S. senator and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia share verses from the Old Testament and Quran on Christmas Day? Or watching the ...
( Category: Diplomacy August 1,2020 )
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder by Ben Mezrich
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

* * * I. Used with permission of The Associated Press Copyright © 2014. All rights reserved. CHAPTER TWENTY * * * June 15, 2000, Alexandrovka Dacha BEREZOVSKY’S WORLD HAD ...
( Category: History & Theory August 1,2020 )
Alone against Hitler by Jack Bray
epub |eng | 2020-03-12 | Author:Jack Bray

V CONFRONTATION • 8 • Ambush at Berchtesgaden “Perhaps you will wake up one morning in Vienna to find us there—just like a spring storm.” —Adolf Hitler As dawn broke ...
( Category: World War II August 1,2020 )
Aneurin Bevan by Michael Foot
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Michael Foot [Michael Foot]

No flout from Churchill, in the extensive record of their exchanges, infuriated Bevan more than that one. He had staked his political future on the point at issue – the ...
( Category: Political August 1,2020 )
Aneurin Bevan: A Biography by Michael Foot
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Michael Foot [Michael Foot]

Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season; Let us endure an hour and see injustice done. The performance of Chamberlain in recognizing Franco – his ...
( Category: Political August 1,2020 )
Diaries Volume Three by Alastair Campbell
epub |eng | | Author:Alastair Campbell

August holiday We had a house in Puyméras, a little village on the other side of Ventoux. We had an OK time, though there were too many party people around ...
( Category: Letters August 1,2020 )
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's by Hunter S. Thompson
epub |eng | 2003-11-06 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Bull Market on The Strip Las Vegas—The dawn does not come up like thunder at the Stardust Sports and Race Book on Las Vegas Boulevard. At six in the morning ...
( Category: Journalists August 1,2020 )

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