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William Randolph Hearst by Procter Ben;
epub |eng | 1998-09-26 | Author:Procter, Ben;

Hearst once more was in his element, fascinating and entertaining the throngs of delegates in a desperate attempt to sell himself as a man of the people, as the only ...
( Category: Historical September 27,2018 )
Greater than Ever by Daniel Doctoroff
epub |eng | 2017-09-11 | Author:Daniel Doctoroff

CHAPTER TWELVE BROOKLYN DREAMS THE DAY I started as Deputy Mayor, I changed my commute, of course. Instead of heading inland to Midtown Manhattan’s towering office district, I started riding ...
( Category: Sociology September 26,2018 )
The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Deborah Blum

Eleven EXCUSES FOR EVERYTHING 1908–1909 Is covered with germs, each armed with a hook To grapple with liver and spleen. In April 1908, as his Poison Squad study of sodium ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
Rebel Prince by Tom Bower
epub |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Tom Bower

15 The Queen’s Recollection On Monday, 14 October 2002, Paul Burrell, forty-four years old, stood in the dock of Court Number One at the Old Bailey, accused of stealing 310 ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters by Sam Kashner
epub |eng | 2018-08-05 | Author:Sam Kashner

9 This Side of Paradise: Return to New York I felt this terrible claustrophobia . . . these trees closing in on me. I longed for the sea. —LEE If ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics) by Franklin Benjamin
azw3 |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Franklin, Benjamin [Franklin, Benjamin]

TO MISS MARY STEVENSON Philada March 25, 1763. MY DEAR POLLEY, Your pleasing Favour of Nov. 11 is now before me. It found me as you suppos’d it would, happy ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin
epub |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Richard N. Goodwin [Goodwin, Richard N.]

16 / Lyndon’s Landslide IN THE MIDDLE of all this we won a presidential election. In retrospect it was an astonishing performance. This “accidental” president, who could never have reached ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2018 )
Bismarck by Steinberg Jonathan;
epub |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Steinberg, Jonathan;

9 The Decline Begins: Liberals and Catholics The victory over France and the foundation of the new Reich marked the high point of Bismarck’s career. He had achieved the impossible ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Goodwin Richard N
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Goodwin, Richard N. [Goodwin, Richard N.]

16 / Lyndon’s Landslide IN THE MIDDLE of all this we won a presidential election. In retrospect it was an astonishing performance. This “accidental” president, who could never have reached ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2018 )
The Life of William Apess, Pequot by Philip F. Gura
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-06-20 | Author:Philip F. Gura

MASHPEE TRIUMPH That spring, the General Court finally debated the Mashpee petition, even as histrionics against them continued in the newspapers. The legislators’ investigative committee consisted of “Messrs. Barton and ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 24,2018 )
Looking Under Stones by Joe O'Toole
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Joe O'Toole [O'Toole, Joe]

As well as the buying and selling, which was the main business of the fair, there were numerous hangers-on and diversions: hucksters, stall-holders, spongers and the inevitable fights that broke ...
( Category: Europe September 24,2018 )
D-Day by Rupert Colley
epub |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Rupert Colley [Colley, Rupert]

THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY During the following morning, 7 June, British troops captured Bayeux with relative ease; the first French city to be liberated. British soldier inspecting identity cards of ...
( Category: Americas September 24,2018 )
The Road to Monticello by Kevin J. Hayes
epub |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Kevin J. Hayes [Hayes, Kevin J.]

I observe the hog of this country (Westphalia), of which the celebrated ham is made, is tall, gaunt, and with heavy lop ears. Fatted at a year old, would weigh ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 24,2018 )
Andersonville by John McElroy
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John McElroy [McElroy, John]

CHAPTER XLV AUGUST—NEEDLES STUCK IN PUMPKIN SEEDS—SOME PHENOMENA OF STARVATION —RIOTING IN REMEMBERED LUXURIES "Illinoy," said tall, gaunt Jack North, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois, to me, one ...
( Category: Americas September 24,2018 )
An American Princess by Annejet van Der Zijl
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Annejet van Der Zijl [Zijl, Annejet van Der]

In his hope-filled letter, the German prince might not have been correct about his betrothed’s age or the high regard her family enjoyed in America. But in one aspect he ...
( Category: Historical September 24,2018 )

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