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Bonnie and Clyde- A Twenty-First-Century Update by James R Knight
epub |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:James R Knight [Knight, James R]

At one point in their escape along country roads, Clyde had to get out and open a gate. He stepped out of the car and promptly fell down in the ...
( Category: United States September 6,2019 )
President Lincoln- The Duty of a Statesman by William Lee Miller
epub |eng | 2008-02-04 | Author:William Lee Miller [Miller, William Lee]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN In Giving Freedom to the Slave, We Assure Freedom to the Free MY STATION AND ITS DUTIES WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN became president of the United States, as we ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 6,2019 )
At the Cold Shoulder of History by James Curtis Jenkins
epub |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:James Curtis Jenkins

Chapter Ten After the session in New York I returned home to Mobile and to working for the USA Medical Center Hospital. I had a brief contact with Rick Russo ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies September 6,2019 )
Stalin's Romeo Spy by Emil Draitser
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Emil Draitser [Draitser, Emil]

Bystrolyotov’s African Trip (1935–1936) Of course, in his published work, duly censored by the KGB, there is no direct indication of the purpose of his second African trip. Moreover, to ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union September 6,2019 )
The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce by Hallie Rubenhold
epub |eng | 2010-08-16 | Author:Hallie Rubenhold [Rubenhold, Hallie]

… Lady Worsley used to come to the cold bath near Maidstone to bathe, and that she [Marriott] used to attend her; that Sir Richard and Mr Bissett [sic] were ...
( Category: Women in History September 6,2019 )
American Legends- Abbott & Costello by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

It wouldn’t have been a surprise for Costello to retire to his home for a lengthy mourning period, and he later admitted he was tempted to do just that: “I ...
( Category: American Civil War September 5,2019 )
Autobiography by Mohandas Gandhi
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Mohandas Gandhi

XI INTIMATE EUROPEAN CONTACTS This chapter has brought me to a stage where it becomes necessary for me to explain to the reader how this story is written from week ...
( Category: Gandhi September 5,2019 )
Opening Day by Jonathan Eig
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Eig

FIFTEEN A GOOD THING FOR EVERYBODY Sooner or later, all the Negro-league ballplayers noticed the white men in the grandstands. The parks were mostly empty that summer, as the fans ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )
Dangerous Hero by Tom Bower
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Tom Bower [Bower, Tom]

10 The Takeover The climax of the four-month campaign was staged on Saturday, 12 September in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Westminster. The few Labour MPs who attended looked morose. Dressed ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism September 5,2019 )
Clever Girl by Lauren Kessler
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Lauren Kessler [Kessler, Lauren]

God help that country where informers thrive Where slander flourishes and lies contrive. Not surprisingly, the Communist Party was particularly displeased with Bentley and began a campaign of smears and ...
( Category: World War II September 5,2019 )
The Baby Thief by Barbara Bisantz Raymond
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Barbara Bisantz Raymond [Raymond, Barbara Bisantz]

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: “Who am I$” —Judge Wade ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals September 5,2019 )
After the Fall by Kasey S. Pipes
epub |eng | | Author:Kasey S. Pipes

* * * As the first year of the Reagan administration came to a close, Nixon was pleased with how his friend was doing. “I like and admire [Lech] Walesa,” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 5,2019 )
The American Spirit by David McCullough
epub |eng | | Author:David McCullough

And yet at the close of her long days there on the farm in Braintree, at maybe 10:00 or 11:00 at night, Abigail Adams would sit by the fire at ...
( Category: Essays September 5,2019 )
Murder & Mayhem in Jefferson County by Cheri L Farnsworth
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Cheri L Farnsworth [Farnsworth, Cheri L]

Courtesy of the author. The judge, in his sentencing speech, said, in part: The court believes you have had a fair and impartial trial…after, as I believe, considering it fairly, ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )
Franco by Enrique Moradiellos
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Enrique Moradiellos [Moradiellos, Enrique]

The Political Culture of the Spanish Anti-Liberal Right on the Eve of War As recalled in a classic work by Manuel García-Pelayo, all societies in history have developed various political ...
( Category: Fascism September 5,2019 )

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