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Way Out There In the Blue by Frances FitzGerald
epub |eng | | Author:Frances FitzGerald

AT GENEVA, Reagan and Gorbachev had agreed that there would be a summit in the United States in 1986, and one in the Soviet Union the following year. After his ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 23,2018 )
First Class Citizenship by MICHAEL G. LONG
epub | | | Author:MICHAEL G. LONG

JACKIE'S COLUMN In this same recent column you also accused me and Dr. Powell of misleading our people. Aren't you the same ex-baseball player who tried to "MISLEAD" Negroes into ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 23,2018 )
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan by Jonathan Kirsch
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Kirsch

* * * * Arendt later came to the defense of her former lover in a broadcast on West German radio on the occasion of Heidegger’s eightieth birthday in 1969. ...
( Category: World April 23,2018 )
Out in the Army by James Wharton
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:James Wharton [James Wharton]

I enjoyed being part of 1 Troop, but in the days that followed us being attacked in the desert, I was becoming increasingly stressed and agitated. Our return to Basra ...
( Category: Military April 23,2018 )
Seven Women by Eric Metaxas
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Eric Metaxas

Two triangles, King David’s star. No insult, this ancestral blazon. It indicates a noble way. It marks a chosen nation. May you, stamped by this seal, this star of David, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 22,2018 )
Comrade J by Pete Earley
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-07 | Author:Pete Earley

TWENTY-TWO SERGEI AND HELEN DEPOSITED $25,000 in a Moscow bank that was paying 200 percent interest—a rate that didn’t seem out of line given that inflation was unchecked. They were ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 22,2018 )
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters by Robert Schlesinger
mobi, pdf | | 2009-11-06 | Author:Robert Schlesinger

As Carter entered the fall election against Ronald Reagan, the speech-writers typically got little direction. “All the political dinners and all the road shows we did, we had to come ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 22,2018 )
Longthroat Memoirs by Yemisi Aribisala
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Yemisi Aribisala [Yemisi Aribisala]

Okro Soup and the Demonic Encyclopaedia of Dreams What does a demon look like? You should know, so that if you meet it in the vicinity of your food, you ...
( Category: Africa April 22,2018 )
Postcards from Stanland by David H. Mould
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:David H. Mould [Mould, David H.]

seven Father of Apples Welcome to Almaty? For travelers in the mid-1990s, Almaty airport was not a welcoming port of entry. Flights from Europe arrived in the wee hours of ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 22,2018 )
White King by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | | Author:Leanda de Lisle

18 EVIL WOMEN ON THE DAY of his death, 10 January 1645, the diminutive Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, dressed in his habitual black. Laud had been a chief supporter ...
( Category: Historical April 22,2018 )
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life by Zaretsky Robert
epub |eng | | Author:Zaretsky, Robert

° ° ° Sartre admired The Plague. In 1945, he told an audience in New York that the novel, which he had read in manuscript, embodied the new spirit of ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 22,2018 )
Like a Bomb Going Off by Janice Ross
epub |eng | 2015-04-22 | Author:Janice Ross

Spartacus (1956), act 1: The Triumph of Rome, Askold Makarov (c.), Kirov Ballet, Leningrad. Photographer unknown. On several levels Spartacus tries to pick up the threads of innovation from the ...
( Category: Historical April 22,2018 )
Modern Muslims by Steve Howard
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Steve Howard [Howard, Steve]

5 Communicating Islamic Reform Small Media, Big Ideas On the east bank of the Blue Nile is the village of Hilaliya, not far from the region in which Ustadh Mahmoud ...
( Category: Africa April 22,2018 )
The Good Spy by Kai Bird
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Kai Bird [Bird, Kai]

January 22, 1979, was a cold and gray day in Beirut. It was the birthday of Salameh’s young niece, and Ali Hassan had promised he would stop by his mother’s ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 21,2018 )
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

† Much later, Buck would claim that in early May 1883, he told Ferd expressly that the firm should have nothing to do with the contract business for fear his ...
( Category: Historical April 21,2018 )

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