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The Fighting Times of Abe Attell by Mark Allen Baker
epub |eng | 2017-11-17 | Author:Mark Allen Baker

A Rare Glimpse at the Champion Writer Vincent Treanor wrote a complimentary piece about Attell for the Evening World on February 4, 1911. The insight was the first in some ...
( Category: World March 14,2018 )
South to a Very Old Place by Albert Murray
epub |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Albert Murray [Murray, Albert]

Rearrived on expense account this time you take the limousine to the Battle House not so much remembering the stopover in Atlanta as continuing the interior monologue you began months ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 14,2018 )
A Thousand Miles of Dreams by Welland Sasha Su-Ling;
epub |eng | | Author:Welland, Sasha Su-Ling;

Shuhua told Hu Shi that she had discussed with Xu Zhimo a plan for him to leave the country to extricate himself from potential scandal. She asked Hu Shi to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2018 )
Jewish Luck by Leslie Adler
epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Leslie Adler

Notes 1. Andropov was known for his strong efforts to suppress political dissidence. 2. Limited free enterprise had been permitted briefly under Lenin’s “New Economic Policy” in agriculture, light industry, ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2018 )
It Shouldn't Happen to a Midwife! by Jane Yeadon
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Jane Yeadon [Yeadon, Jane]

15 MISSION VAN The van had slewed round. Marie was crying, which seemed unnecessary since Seonaid, apparently sound in wind and limb, was asking the driver what had kept him. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2018 )
John Curtin's War by John Edwards
epub |eng | | Author:John Edwards

(1) Japan had moved into Tonkin in 1940 and into southern Indo-China in July 1941. It was threatening to move into Thailand.1 Each move south brought its airfields closer to ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2018 )
Stolen Dreams by Sue Brown
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Sue Brown [Brown, Sue]

ELROY STARED at Morgan as if he had suddenly grown two heads. “He has a kid?” The two men were sitting in MC’s, the largest available cups of coffee in ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2018 )
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Angela Y. Davis [Davis, Angela Y.]

Holiday’s own autobiographical reflections about that moment in her life, interestingly, draw a distinction between the mass recognition she had already achieved and the financial success she desired: I opened ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )
Jacko, His Rise and Fall: The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson by Darwin Porter
epub |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:Darwin Porter

Princess Di, 1985 During his brief marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, Michael taunted her, claiming he had this ongoing affair with Princess Di. It was reported that Lisa Marie was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 13,2018 )
Bernard Shaw by Holroyd Michael;
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Holroyd, Michael; [Holroyd, Michael]

* Beatrice had wished for closer intellectual intimacy with Shaw through the New Statesman. But his ‘big brain’, she became convinced, had been spoilt by Mrs Patrick Campbell. ‘He is ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 13,2018 )
Hitler, Stalin and I by Heda Margolius Kovály
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Heda Margolius Kovály

Liberating Russian soldiers shake the hands of residents after driving the Germans out of Prague, 1945. Courtesy Česká televize. In the morning the announcer called me and said: “You know, ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
My Father's Wake by Kevin Toolis
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Kevin Toolis

GESTATIONS Sonny’s death took nine months to come into being. It was in the autumn as Sonny approached his seventieth birthday that he first began to complain of indigestion and ...
( Category: Death & Grief March 13,2018 )
Frederick Douglass by D. H. Dilbeck
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:D. H. Dilbeck

Riot in Tremont Temple, Boston, 3 December 1860. From Harper’s Weekly, 15 December 1860. Although the raid on Harpers Ferry failed to incite mass slave insurrection, Douglass still saw in ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 13,2018 )
Don't Play in the Sun by Marita Golden
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Marita Golden

During a 1999 story for “48 Hours” on a teenager in jail, Goldberg says, a New York producer asked his field producer, “What is she?” “She’s black,” the producer told ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 13,2018 )
Here and Now by Paul Auster
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Paul Auster

February 23, 2010 Dear John, For reasons I can’t quite grasp (possibly because you are so far away and our meetings are so infrequent), I often find myself wanting to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 13,2018 )

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