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Lincoln's Battle with God by Stephen Mansfield
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Stephen Mansfield

Lincoln’s first full day in the nation’s capital was a Sunday—February 24—and he already had an invitation to church. Senator William Seward, newly named as secretary of state, had invited ...
( Category: American Civil War May 19,2019 )
Kissinger on Kissinger by Winston Lord
epub |eng | | Author:Winston Lord

SEVEN Breakthrough and the Paris Accords The final agreement exceeded expectations and the calls of many critics. Ever since, two stubborn shibboleths have persisted: This pact was overdue because Nixon ...
( Category: Diplomacy May 19,2019 )
Nixon's Darkest Secrets by Don Fulsom
epub |eng | | Author:Don Fulsom

TWELVE WATERGATE: WHAT SECRETS WAS NIXON SEEKING? Early in the 1968 campaign, power-hungry, episodically nutty billionaire Howard Hughes—in a lucid moment and non-nuanced memo—stated his determination to elect a president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 17,2019 )
The Making of the President 1964 by Theodore H. White
epub, mobi |eng | 1965-05-16 | Author:Theodore H. White

History can signal its changes to wise men without violence, but for those who prefer to ignore its message, it then raps with gunfire to call attention. The riots of ...
( Category: Elections May 17,2019 )
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
epub |eng | 1961-05-16 | Author:Theodore H. White

Two simultaneous explosions now occurred: one in Chicago, Illinois, at the Blackstone Hotel; the second at the Newport Naval Station, Rhode Island, where Dwight D. Eisenhower was vacationing. The first ...
( Category: Elections May 17,2019 )
Lincoln's Men by Daniel Mark Epstein
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Mark Epstein

TOO LATE Had we but met in other days, Had we but loved in other ways, Another light and hope had shone On your life and my own. In sweet ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 17,2019 )
Within Arm's Length by Dan Emmett
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Emmett

FROM CAT TO THE SHIFT When PPD absorbed CAT in 1992, everyone on CAT became members of PPD. While few of us wanted to be adopted by the detail and ...
( Category: United States May 17,2019 )
The Eloquent President by Ronald C. White Jr
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Ronald C. White, Jr. [White, Ronald C.]

WARD HILL LAMON stirred the pot when he wrote an open letter to the Chicago Tribune in 1886 purporting to tell the real story of that fateful day. Remembrance is ...
( Category: American Civil War May 17,2019 )
The Guardian of Mercy by Ward Terence;
epub |eng | 2015-05-16 | Author:Ward, Terence;

The painter turns to a waiting young man dressed in the costly finery of a knight and gestures to him. “Please, it’s your moment. Walk slowly by this poor man.” ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 17,2019 )
In My Father's House by The Years Before 'The Hiding Place'
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Years Before 'The Hiding Place'

The Saddest Day The children from Germany stayed for a while, building their bodies and healing their spirits, before returning to their homeland. Those were growing years for all of ...
( Category: Religious May 16,2019 )
The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Okrent

* * * Scribner’s was hardly alone in its promotion of scientific racism in the postwar, post–literacy test years. Throughout the culture, many saw all too clearly what the inarticulate ...
( Category: United States May 15,2019 )
The War Criminal's Son by Jane Singer
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Singer

12 Heal Thyself If one could blink through a stereoscope at an image of William A. Winder in the late 1860s, there would be no soldier there. Long gone is ...
( Category: American Civil War May 15,2019 )
American Prophet by Richardson Peter
epub |eng | | Author:Richardson, Peter

But in California the lights went on all at once, in a blaze, and they have never been dimmed. It was, of course, the discovery of gold that got California ...
( Category: United States May 14,2019 )
George Mason by William G. Hyland
epub |eng | | Author:William G. Hyland

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Virginia Ratifying Convention * * * I believe there are few men in whom [Washington] placed greater confidence; but it is possible my opposition to the new ...
( Category: American Revolution May 14,2019 )
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
epub |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Jeremy Dronfield

אחים Auschwitz-Monowitz, now completely built, was a small, simple camp. It had no gatehouse: just a plain gateway in the double electrified fence. A single street ran the length of ...
( Category: Historical May 13,2019 )

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