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Mayor Harold Washington by Roger Biles
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Biles

6 IN SEARCH OF A MANDATE Washington prepared for his reelection campaign with the knowledge that he had yet to remove all doubts about the efficacy of his reform program. ...
( Category: Americas June 28,2018 )
John Quincy Adams by Fred Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Kaplan

The statement to Onís and the letter to Erving were widely circulated. Jefferson enthusiastically complimented their author. “They are without exception,” he wrote to Adams and the president, “the ablest ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 27,2018 )
FDR's Folly by Jim Powell
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jim Powell

THE “FOUR HORSEMEN OF REACTION” gained support on the Court as FDR increasingly asserted arbitrary power via executive orders, rather than going through the legislative process. The Congressional Research Service ...
( Category: Americas June 27,2018 )
Churchill and the King by Kenneth Weisbrode
epub |eng | 2015-11-24 | Author:Kenneth Weisbrode

Perhaps he did attach too much importance to what he wore; but then he grew up in an age that cared for such things. Endowed with neither inches nor a ...
( Category: Historical June 27,2018 )
I've Got a Home in Glory Land by Karolyn Smardz Frost
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Karolyn Smardz Frost

It may not be amiss to observe that the white emigrants from the United States retain all the prejudices here that they formerly had against coloured people in their native ...
( Category: Americas June 25,2018 )
Mirage by Nina Burleigh
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Nina Burleigh

CHAPTER 7 THE MATHEMATICIAN My friends, if we leave for France, we didn’t know anything about it until midday today. —Monge’s last words to the scholars before leaving them in ...
( Category: Middle East June 25,2018 )
I'm Staying with My Boys by Jim Proser
epub |eng | 2011-08-05 | Author:Jim Proser

After all we’d fought through to get here, the landing was like sailing up to Miami Beach. Chesty was in the first boat. By the time we got in, he ...
( Category: Military June 25,2018 )
Deep South Dispatch by John N. Herbers
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:John N. Herbers

CHAPTER 17 Justice Delayed The First Beckwith Trial BYRON DE LA BECKWITH JR. WAS A FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD FERTILIZER salesman from an old Greenwood, Mississippi, family who had served as a marine ...
( Category: Americas June 25,2018 )
Grand Avenues by Scott W. Berg
epub |eng | 2009-03-11 | Author:Scott W. Berg [Berg, Scott W.]

“I see no necessity at present to proceed to the removal,” he added, as if the determination were still, after all that had happened with Duddington, his to make. Covering ...
( Category: Americas June 25,2018 )
The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List by Mietek Pemper
mobi |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Mietek Pemper

Helena Hirsch, a former domestic servant in Göth’s villa in the camp, testified about his hubris at his 1946 trial. He had told her more than once that “when he ...
( Category: World June 25,2018 )
Birth of a Dream Weaver by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

IV Frustration with EAAFRO had made me look to the pen for an alternative source of extra cash. But I also felt that I was developing ideas beyond those demanded ...
( Category: Africa June 23,2018 )
Geronimo by Mike Leach
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Leach

GERONIMO’S ADVERSARIES: BRITTON DAVIS, ARMY OFFICER (JUNE 4, 1860–JANUARY 23, 1930) Born at Brownsville, Texas, Davis graduated from West Point in 1881. He joined the 3rd Cavalry and was sent ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 23,2018 )
India's Unending Journey by Mark Tully
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: Historical June 23,2018 )
The Long Night by Steve Wick
epub |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Steve Wick

Helene Katz long after November 1938 possessed approval from a party office to distribute photographs and related items to emigrating Jews. For this reason she was free from surveillance and ...
( Category: Historical June 23,2018 )
An Unsung Hero by Michael Smith
epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Michael Smith [Smith, Michael]

Crean was also a popular member of the party and Wright described him as ‘very good natured’. Debenham remembered that his ‘quips and brogue kept the mess-deck part of the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 23,2018 )

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