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The Different Drummer by Michael K. Deaver
epub |eng | 2007-09-15 | Author:Michael K. Deaver [Michael K. Deaver]

Ronald Reagan saw a saint in nearly everybody, bad in almost nobody, especially his staff. This probably isn’t the best quality to have in a president, but he survived because ...
( Category: Historical September 19,2018 )
The Escape Artists by Neal Bascomb
epub |eng | | Author:Neal Bascomb

Holzminden bed with wood planks missing, by C.E.B. Bernard WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE F. W. HARVEY ESTATE Inspections at Holzminden, by C.E.B. Bernard WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE F. ...
( Category: Military September 19,2018 )
Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

TEN CRISIS MANAGEMENT Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike It is a dreadful thing to come into the Presidency this way; but it would be a far worse thing to ...
( Category: Americas September 18,2018 )
Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank by Lieberman E. James
azw3 |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Lieberman, E. James [Lieberman, E. James]

This previously unpublished letter starkly tells the difference between north and south in the conflict around Freud. Jones, who became famous as Freud’s ardent, eloquent defender, put intellectual conviction ahead ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 18,2018 )
Assassin of Youth by Alexandra Chasin
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Alexandra Chasin [Chasin, Alexandra]

A straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points, as Harry had learned on that mountain train back in La Guaïra. And as Wally Reid learned in ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2018 )
Hubert Humphrey by Arnold A. Offner
epub |eng | | Author:Arnold A. Offner

15 NORTHWEST’S PASSAGE Humphrey’s new year began unhappily. Johnson ordered his staff not to consult the vice president about his January 10, 1967, State of the Union address or show ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 16,2018 )
Al Capone by Nate Hendley
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-07-13 | Author:Nate Hendley [Hendley, Nate]

Chapter 7: Valentine Greetings from Big Al In the spring of 1928, Mayor Bill Thompson faced his biggest political challenge in years. On April 8, a Republican primary election would ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 16,2018 )
Henry I: The Father of His People by Edmund King
epub |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Edmund King

4 Infertility Henry and his court returned to England on 25 November 1120. The king had made the Channel crossing, in one direction or another, at least twenty times. The ...
( Category: Historical September 16,2018 )
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Anthony Birley

SEVERUS* BY AELIUS SPARTIANUS AFTER the murder of Didius Julianus, Severus, a native of Africa, gained the empire. His home town was Leptimagna,1 his father was Geta and his ancestors ...
( Category: Historical September 16,2018 )
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:Jonathan Dimbleby [Dimbleby, Jonathan]

This ‘understanding’ had allowed Lord Young, among others, to nurture his relationship with China – even when, as a member of the Cabinet, he was subject to the bar on ...
( Category: Asia September 15,2018 )
Wicked Women of Ohio by Jane Ann Turzillo
epub |eng | 2018-09-14 | Author:Jane Ann Turzillo

Alderson Prison, Alderson, West Virginia. Courtesy of the Greenbrier (WV) Historical Society. Mildred Gillars leaving Alderson Prison. Courtesy of Washington Evening Star, Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library. Eligible for parole ...
( Category: Americas September 15,2018 )
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr
epub |eng | 2017-01-02 | Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING 68TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY MARCH 25, 1968 This is a transcript of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s responses to questions, which had been ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 14,2018 )
In a Single Garment of Destiny by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. Persuading large land owners to give up some of their holding to landless peasants; 2. Persuading small land owners to give up their individual ownership for common cooperative ownership ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 14,2018 )
Cheaper by the Dozen by Gilbreth Frank B. & Gilbreth Carey Ernestine
epub |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Gilbreth, Frank B. & Gilbreth Carey, Ernestine [Gilbreth, Frank B.; Gilbreth Carey, Ernestine]

Dad had promised before we came to Nantucket that there would be no formal studying—no language records and no school books. He kept his promise, although we found he was ...
( Category: Humor September 14,2018 )
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Sarah Weinman

Frank La Salle, after pleading guilty. * * * — BECAUSE FRANK LA SALLE pleaded guilty, Sally did not get to testify against him. In Mitchell Cohen’s office after the ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2018 )

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