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Devil's Chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (9780062276216) by Talbot David
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Talbot, David

Part III 15 Contempt On Monday April 17, 1961, as over fourteen hundred CIA-trained anti-Castro exiles waded ashore at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs—an operation that would quickly become the biggest ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 13,2019 )
William Howard Taft: The 27th President, 1909-1913 by Jeffrey Rosen
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Rosen

5 “Popular Unrest”: The Election of 1912 and the Battle for the Constitution On February 21, 1912, after delivering a speech called “A Charter for Democracy” at the Ohio Constitutional ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 13,2019 )
Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer
epub |eng | | Author:Ted Widmer

5 Panic After years of scraping, Martin Van Buren finally stood atop the Matterhorn of American politics. Like a mountain goat, he had leapt upward from one craggy promontory to ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2019 )
Battle Scars by Jason Fox
epub |eng | 2018-10-31 | Author:Jason Fox

19 This is not good. This is really not good. As I bunkered down in a luxury hotel room, unable to push away my bed covers, unwilling to face the ...
( Category: Memoirs February 13,2019 )
Parkland by Dave Cullen
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Dave Cullen

14 March for Their Lives 1 Daniel Duff said it was going to be huge. Huge? What did that mean? He had no idea, really, but expected it to feel ...
( Category: Americas February 12,2019 )
1932 by David Pietrusza
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:David Pietrusza

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “We always call her ‘Granny’” TO SOME POLITICS WAS A WAR NOT ALWAYS WORTH FIGHTING. Just before midnight Monday, September 12, Joe Kennedy and his loyal henchman Eddie ...
( Category: Americas February 12,2019 )
A Death in the Islands by Mike Farris
epub |eng | 2016-02-11 | Author:Mike Farris

PART THREE A DEATH IN THE ISLANDS Chapter Eighteen Somewhere Over the Pali “The Shame of Honolulu” If a tie in football is like kissing your sister, then imaginations can ...
( Category: Historical February 12,2019 )
Murder by the Book by Claire Harman
epub |eng | 2018-08-14 | Author:Claire Harman

And most strikingly, Carr was being called not as a character witness (as the Pethouds and Lady Julia Lockwood were the next day) but as a witness for the prosecution. ...
( Category: True Crime February 12,2019 )
Grant and Sherman by Charles Bracelen Flood
epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...
( Category: Americas February 10,2019 )
Hero The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
epub |eng | 2011-03-12 | Author:Michael Korda [Korda, Michael]

Triumph: Lawrence, in the Blue Mist, arrives in Damascus. The arrival of Lieutenant-General Chauvel added to Lawrence’s burdens. Like General Barrow at Deraa, Chauvel was shocked and appalled by the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 10,2019 )
The Mongol Empire by John Man
epub |eng | | Author:John Man

15 A NEW CAPITAL BEIJING WAS NO one’s first choice as a capital – too far North, no good rivers – until the Mongols’ predecessors, the Jin, invaded from Manchuria ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 10,2019 )
Rather Die Fighting by Frank Blaichman
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Frank Blaichman

THE MOST IMPORTANT MISSION of my years as a partisan took place in mid-March, when Leon Marzenta and I were given a special security assignment by the AL command. By ...
( Category: Historical February 10,2019 )
Ingenious Machinists by Connors Anthony J
epub |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Connors, Anthony J.

For some time the Merrimack Company directors had been concerned about Ezra Worthen’s health. Although he was only forty-three years old in 1824, Ezra had suffered from heart disease for ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2019 )
Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command by Lynn Vincent & Roger Hill
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Lynn Vincent & Roger Hill

CHAPTER 28 A COUPLE OF days into the jingle truck recovery, Hill was waiting for the last of the lowboy trailers to show up when MAJ Smith called him into ...
( Category: Military February 9,2019 )
Life of Johnson by Boswell James
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Boswell, James

›While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.‹ I wish you would look more into his book; and as Lord Mountstuart wishes much to find a proper person to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 8,2019 )

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