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Wyatt Earp_The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller
epub |eng | 2009-01-11 | Author:Casey Tefertiller [Tefertiller, Casey]

HAD JIM HUME NEVER LIVED IN THE WEST, the Westerns would have had to create him. Hume perfectly fit the image of a frontier hero: smart, brave, canny, and building ...
( Category: Americas July 18,2018 )
Party Like a President by Brian Abrams
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Abrams

The state of Ohio vs. Todd. One highlight of McKinley’s prudish ways happened in 1869. Four years out of law school, he served a single term as prosecuting attorney of ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Russell Shorto [Shorto, Russell]

Perhaps the most talked-about event in London during the summer of 1777 was the case of William Dodd, a popular clergyman whose taste for the good life led him to ...
( Category: Americas July 18,2018 )
Founding Mothers by Roberts Cokie
mobi |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Roberts, Cokie [Roberts, Cokie]

The United States of America, may they be perpetual The Congress The King and Nation of France General Washington and the American Army The United Netherlands and all other free ...
( Category: Women's Studies July 18,2018 )
The Price of Greatness by Jay Cost
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Jay Cost

HAMILTON DID NOT comprehend Madison’s motives in dealing with Great Britain. In an October 1789 conversation, Hamilton and British agent George Beckwith agreed that Madison’s support of commercial discrimination was ...
( Category: Americas July 18,2018 )
The Hitler I Knew by Otto Dietrich
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Otto Dietrich

Hitler’s official quarters in Berlin were in the Chancellery. His private residence was in Munich, on the second floor of No. 1 Prinzregentenplatz. In Berchtesgaden he had the Berghof, situated ...
( Category: Historical July 18,2018 )
Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
epub |eng | 2011-07-16 | Author:Tim Jeal

NINETEEN Never to Give Up the Search Until I Find Livingstone John Rowlands, who would one day be known to the world as Henry Morton Stanley, was born in the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 17,2018 )
Kaiser Wilhelm II by Christopher Clark
epub |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Christopher Clark

Here and there the Kaiser makes little pauses, one can see that he is reflecting, folds appear upon the brow and the eye looks out into the distance until the ...
( Category: Historical July 17,2018 )
The Echo from Dealey Plaza by Abraham Bolden
epub |eng | 2008-03-03 | Author:Abraham Bolden

Chapter 12 BEFORE THE JURY was brought into the courtroom, the lawyers argued in front of Judge Perry regarding his charge to the jury. Again, the judge showed his determination ...
( Category: Ethnic & National July 17,2018 )
Creepy Crawling by Jeffrey Melnick
epub |eng | 2018-06-21 | Author:Jeffrey Melnick

A Legion of Charlies It was in the Los Angeles Free Press that the countercultural press wrestled with the “truth” about Charles Manson and his Family with the most sustained ...
( Category: Historical July 17,2018 )
12 Faithful Men by Collin Hansen
epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:Collin Hansen

School of Affliction Fuller was a man who lived with great heartbreak throughout his ministry. In addition to his own physical maladies and weaknesses, he also endured the loss of ...
( Category: Historical July 17,2018 )
Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East by Joseph Poprzeczny
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-02-18 | Author:Joseph Poprzeczny [Poprzeczny, Joseph]

No mention was made of Globocnik’s Treblinka, Sobibor, or Belzec, because all had been dismantled and all the permanent structures, including the gassing facilities, demolished. Majdanek Majdanek, or more properly, ...
( Category: World July 15,2018 )
Bernard Berenson by Rachel Cohen
epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:Rachel Cohen

Belle da Costa Greene, 1911, photograph by Clarence White. Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti—The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 15,2018 )
Glorious in Persecution: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839-1844 by Martha S. Bradley-Evans
epub |eng | 2016-05-11 | Author:Martha S. Bradley-Evans [Bradley-Evans, Martha S.]

* * * 1. History of the Church, 5:12 (May 19, 1842). 2. “Nauvoo and the Mormons,” Times and Seasons 3, no. 11 (Apr. 1, 1842): 750. 3. “History of ...
( Category: Christian Denominations & Sects July 15,2018 )
The Ideal Man by Joshua Kurlantzick
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Joshua Kurlantzick

11 Perched at the top of the stairs to his house, smoking a long cigarette, Jim Thompson waved down to the crowd of guests who’d arrived at his home on ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics July 14,2018 )

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