Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

THE MANNER in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to ...
( Category: Political May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Gregory A. Freeman [Freeman, Gregory A.]

Established in June 1942 as the country revved up for full-scale war with the Axis, the OSS was charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs ...
( Category: Europe May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-03-01 | Author:Wallace Earle Stegner [Stegner, Wallace Earle]

The justifications for reform were extensive, for every condition of land and climate, and every successive land law except the Timber Culture Act of 1873 worked against the city mechanic, ...
( Category: Historical May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Miranda Carter [Carter, Miranda]

For George, the new century had brought a few, though hardly momentous, changes. He’d taken up golf, cycling, bridge and the new sine qua non of royal luxury life, cars ...
( Category: Royalty May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Robert Lacey [Lacey, Robert]

ELIZABETH - QUEEN OF HEARTS 1559 ELIZABETH I WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER Abbey on 15 January 1559 — a date selected by her astrologer, Dr John Dee. Cheering crowds had ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Tim O'Brien [O'Brien, Tim]

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. April went on without lilacs. Without rain. When ...
( Category: Southeast Asia May 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Lewis Alsamari [Alsamari, Lewis]

CHAPTER 9 CAUGHT The weeks turned into months. I procrastinated, putting off making any calls to my family and feeling terrified whenever I did call because I dreaded hearing terrible ...
( Category: Memoirs May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1980-01-02 | Author:Leon F. Litwack [Litwack, Leon F.]

But he quickly revised his expectations about freedom, and the example of those who had gone elsewhere influenced his thinking. “Dem what lef de old plantation seemed so all fired ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Nick Bunker [Bunker, Nick]

CONVOYS TO RUSSIA On October 20, 1621, boatmen on the Thames saw moored in the river five ships that had recently returned from the distant north. They came from the ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

THE COURT’S VERDICT against the NRA, and especially the unanimity of the decision, dealt a mortal blow to the New Deal, at least as originally configured. Roosevelt had made industrial ...
( Category: Political May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Adrian Tinniswood [Tinniswood, Adrian]

Okeley’s master never recovered from the financial disaster of his last venture into piracy, and his debts mounted until they reached a point where he was forced to sell off ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Mark Lee Gardner [Gardner, Mark Lee]

WITHIN A WEEK OF killing the Kid, Garrett threatened to resign as sheriff of Lincoln County. The job did not pay well, he explained at the time, and he did ...
( Category: Law Enforcement May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Brenda Wineapple [Wineapple, Brenda]

“MOTHER WAS PARALYZED TUESDAY,” Emily penciled a quick note on dark paper to Wentworth in the summer of 1875. “A year from the evening father died. I thought perhaps you ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Alan Axelrod [Axelrod, Alan]

Lafayette, Marquis de (1757–1834) Eager to win glory as a soldier in a noble cause, Lafayette left his native France and arrived in Philadelphia in July 1777 to fight for ...
( Category: Reference May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Cameron Gunn [Gunn, Cameron]

One Is the Loneliest Number By the end of Day 1, I felt like I had the DTs. Like many assessments of my capabilities, I badly overestimated my ability to ...
( Category: Memoirs May 29,2014 )