Biographies & Memoirs
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-16 | Author:Ken Gormley

THE final weeks of January, after the Lewinsky story erupted in the media, were among the most fast-moving in American political history. On the same day that “Unabomber” Theodore J. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-12-15 | Author:Jerome Preisler; Tom Clancy

realized there was little sense making it there on the dot; she’d be talking schoolteacher talk with the visitor for hours and he’d only end up brooding in the corner. ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-28 | Author:Bryan Burrough

Purvis was reading papers in his Chicago apartment around one, enjoying a rare day off, when his manservant, President, brought him the phone. It was the U.S. Marshal’s office in ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Rick Perlstein

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Polarization SIX OF THE ELEVEN TOP-RATED TV SHOWS IN 1969 WERE BOB HOPE SPECIALS. But Bob’s annual Christmas special from Vietnam took on a harder edge this ...
( Category: Elections March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Stanley Weintraub

Destroyer USS Peary. Naval Historical Center Seaman Lester Harris, the navigator, an old China hand who had seen Japanese mistreatment of women, looking up from the inland charts he had ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Follett, Ken [Follett, Ken]

Ross Perot: until this moment, life had been good to him. Perot’s parents: he had his father’s love of jokes, his mother’s iron will. Bull Simons. ABOVE with Lucille. BELOW, ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ellen Fitzpatrick

* * * John F. Kennedy was the first American President born in the twentieth century. At forty-three years of age, he was also the youngest man ever elected to ...
( Category: Letters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-10-10 | Author:Tim Weiner

In retrospect, you see, I really do not believe that an intelligence organization in this government is able to deliver an honest analytical product without facing the risk of political ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:Timothy Egan

A FEW YEARS into his project, Turnbull’s ranch was crowded with birds—speedy, hyperkinetic, somewhat neurotic, exceedingly horny— and Highlands Ranch was crowded with people, who were doing their share for ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:John M. Barry

The report had consequences. Park’s laboratory began the struggle to produce an antiserum and vaccine to Pfeiffer’s bacillus. Soon they were culturing liters and liters of the bacteria, transporting it ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Letts

Approaching the fence, Snowman is alert and Harry is balanced forward. (illustration credits 14.3) But this was a tough course. The fences were all above five feet, with big spreads, ...
( Category: Riding March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )