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The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum
epub |eng | 2016-02-20 | Author:Howard Blum

THE ROOM WAS A SMALL, very select club, a secret society of rich and powerful men who liked to play at being spies. Its name was a veiled reference to ...
( Category: Historical August 31,2017 )
Upstairs at the Roosevelts' by Roosevelt Curtis;
epub |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Roosevelt, Curtis;

This background regarding the tense relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, is useful; it needs to be absorbed, seen in the context of a long-past culture. ...
( Category: Memoirs August 31,2017 )
Joe DiMaggio by Jerome Charyn
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Jerome Charyn

SEVEN Mr. Marilyn Monroe 1. How can we explain what happened next? Marilyn captured him in the whirlwind of her persona—with all its porous, vulnerable masks—and he never quite recovered. ...
( Category: Biographies August 31,2017 )
Last Words by William S. Burroughs
epub |eng | 2000-08-31 | Author:William S. Burroughs

March 17, 1997. Monday Garbage put-out day. Mutie is ill. The lady vet came to get her yesterday. When she wouldn’t eat, I knew she was sick. Call today. Yes, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
Last Rampage by James W. Clarke
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James W. Clarke

* Less than a year after his transfer, on March 20,1975, Charles Schmid was stabbed to death in the minimum security compound. The day after Tison was moved back to ...
( Category: Historical August 31,2017 )
Bait by Unknown
epub | | 2016-01-16 | Author:Unknown

Not this girl, however. In response to the speeder's descent, she swiftly swung the shortblaster in its direction. He paused with alacrity, the soft hum of his vehicle almost inaudible ...
( Category: Historical August 30,2017 )
African Kaiser by Robert Gaudi
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Robert Gaudi

Chapter 17 THE WAR AGAINST THE RAILROAD The British Uganda Railway ran nearly 700 miles from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to its terminus at Kisumu on the eastern ...
( Category: Africa August 30,2017 )
Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Maziar Bahari
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Maziar Bahari [Bahari, Maziar]

Chapter Twelve Bang. Bang. Bang. I hit my head hard against the faux marble wall, again and again, ignoring the pain that crept up my neck. I deserved the pain. ...
( Category: Middle East August 30,2017 )
Steel Boat, Iron Hearts by Hans Goebeler
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Hans Goebeler

A few days after our visit by Rommel, I had a memorable experience while on guard duty. Late one night, I was standing watch on the upper deck when I ...
( Category: Military August 30,2017 )
First In His Class by David Maraniss
epub |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

CHAPTER SIXTEEN HOME AGAIN CLINTON WENT OUT into the world as a favorite son, barely eighteen, and now, nine years later, a man of twenty-seven, he was back. He had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )
First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton by Maraniss David
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Maraniss, David [Maraniss, David]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN HOME AGAIN CLINTON WENT OUT into the world as a favorite son, barely eighteen, and now, nine years later, a man of twenty-seven, he was back. He had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )
Robert A. Caro by Means of Ascent
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Means of Ascent

THERE WAS ANOTHER possible explanation as well. For more than a month before the first primary, unprecedented amounts of money had been devoted to persuading voters that Coke Stevenson had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 29,2017 )
Robert A. Caro by Master of the Senate
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Master of the Senate [Senate, Master of the]

Though these barons were called Democrats, they were unenthusiastic about the leading Democratic presidential contenders—Stevenson, Harriman, and Kefauver, all liberals—and may have preferred another four years with the safely moderate ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 29,2017 )
King, Kaiser, Tsar by Catrine Clay
epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Catrine Clay

12 Uncle Bertie and his Two Nephews THE NEWSPAPERS WERE extravagant in their praise of the new King, all but The Times, which took a high moral tone, reminding its ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
The Jew Store by Stella Suberman
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Stella Suberman

CHAPTER 16 A HOUSE AND NEIGHBORS What with Bronson’s Low-Priced Store fast becoming a fixture in Concordia—and what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2017 )

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