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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA by Rizzo John
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Rizzo, John [Rizzo, John]

I voted for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. It was consistent with a simple—and probably overly simplistic—pattern I had followed up to then and would continue to follow ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 2,2017 )
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
epub |eng | 1988-09-02 | Author:Taylor Branch

During the six-week gestation of the Albany Movement, King unwittingly approached the Albany jail on an airborne path of exhaustion. He arrived home from London just as the November 1 ...
( Category: Americas September 2,2017 )
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Vintage) by Watts Steven
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Watts, Steven [Watts, Steven]

In 1918, Frank Parker Stockbridge, a journalist writing for World's Work, was surprised to hear a heartfelt outburst of sentiment from Henry Ford. Stockbridge had visited Highland Park, observed complex ...
( Category: Industries September 2,2017 )
The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home by Davis William C
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Davis, William C. [Davis, William C.]

12. The battered bugle of the First Kentucky Brigade, like the Orphans it called to battle, vanquished, but unbeatable. (From Thompson, Orphan Brigade) 13. “Old Flintlock.” Brigadier General Roger W. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 2,2017 )
A Song for Mary by Dennis Smith
epub |eng | 1999-06-12 | Author:Dennis Smith [SMITH, DENNIS]

I throw Tom Sawyer on the kitchen table. I am going to also tell my mother about all the books I’ve been reading at Kips. The kitchen light is out, ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

( Category: Historical September 2,2017 )
A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Qais Akbar Omar [Omar, Qais Akbar]

When my father went with the men, and my mother was with the women, and my older sister had gone off to get water with the Kuchi girls, it was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
15 Months in SOG by Thom Nicholson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Thom Nicholson [Nicholson, Thom]

12 Bomb Damage Assessments or Run for Your Life, Charlie Brown “Nick, I’m sending you back up to FOB One.” Major Skelton held up his hand to stop my protest. ...
( Category: Military September 2,2017 )
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley by Neal Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Neal Thompson

( Category: Arts & Literature September 2,2017 )
Spider Eaters: A Memoir by R Yang
mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:R Yang

Perhaps the threat we made worried the higher-level officials. Soon afterwards, we were invited to talk with Wu Zhipu, deputy Party secretary of central southern China, who was Zhao Ziyang's ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
Almost President by Scott Farris
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Scott Farris

In the years since his defeat and more so since his death in 1998, two years after he suffered a massive stroke, Goldwater has occupied a strange place in American ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 1,2017 )
Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City by Demetz Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-03-18 | Author:Demetz, Peter [Demetz, Peter]

The Jewish intellectual most openly sensitive to the new scientific thought of the Renaissance was Joseph Salomon Delmedigo, who spent his last years in Prague and was buried at the ...
( Category: Sociology September 1,2017 )
Queen Victoria's Granddaughters 1860-1918 by Croft Christina
epub |eng | 2013-02-17 | Author:Croft, Christina [Croft, Christina]

Chapter 19 – Who Can Guess What His Tastes May Be? Hessians Louis: Grand Duke of Hesse, widower of Princess Alice Ernie: Son of Louis and Alice Alix: Ernie’s youngest ...
( Category: Historical September 1,2017 )
The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Charlotte Gray

{ CHAPTER 10 } Deadly Bayonet Work WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Members of the first Canadian contingent are likely to be under fire this week. If the ...
( Category: Americas September 1,2017 )
E. E. Cummings by Susan Cheever
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Susan Cheever [Cheever, Susan]

8 Eimi and Marion Morehouse Eimi, Cummings’s second memoir, begins on Sunday, May 10, 1931, when he boards the train from Paris for Russia through Poland, and it ends 443 ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 1,2017 )

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