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American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin
epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:Jeffrey Toobin

Once the tape was complete, the Harrises arranged a meeting with Kathy Soliah by Oakland’s Lake Merritt. Kathy gave the recording to her brother (who had been clued in that ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Les Parisiennes by Anne Sebba
epub |eng | 2016-08-04 | Author:Anne Sebba

Worse was to follow. Before the year was out she complained of having to share a straw mattress and one blanket with two other women until she was transferred to ...
( Category: Europe June 21,2017 )
Bill Clinton by Michael Tomasky
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tomasky

8 That Woman The murmurings started, strangely enough, on a Saturday night—a time when even in media-obsessed Washington not many people are following the news. It was January 17, 1998; ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Isabella of Castile by Giles Tremlett
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Giles Tremlett

32 Indians, Parrots and Hammocks Palos de la Frontera, 15 March 1493 La Niña rode a rising tide as it sailed past the Saltés Bar into the calm waters of ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Richard Nixon by John A. Farrell
epub |eng | 2017-03-27 | Author:John A. Farrell

* * * *1 The list of prime movers in American politics and government who cut their teeth with Nixon includes George H. W. Bush, William Rehnquist, Alan Greenspan, Henry ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Murder In Matera by Helene Stapinski
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:Helene Stapinski

Chapter 20 WITH SNOW YOU GET BREAD, WITH RAIN YOU GET HUNGER And you, ugly, obscure cloud Why have you come? . . . No! Go away to your obscure ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Garrow

8. Chicago and the “War on Slums,” 1965–1966 Civil rights activism in Chicago had traveled a fitful path in the years preceding Martin King’s exploration of the city in July, ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 21,2017 )
The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Tara Clancy

Once a year, usually sometime after we finished dessert, I’d work up the nerve to ask Mark, “So, what was it like in your house, as a kid, growing up?” ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Prince Charles by Sally Bedell Smith
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Sally Bedell Smith

“Her face might have been a mask that represented ‘grief’ and ‘injustice.’ ” Diana’s Panorama interview with Martin Bashir in which she blamed Camilla Parker Bowles for Charles’s “devastating” infidelity, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
Eyes on the Street by Robert Kanigel
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Robert Kanigel

A New York Herald Tribune writer observed that “although Mrs. Jacobs disowns impressing her ideas on the plan…[West Village Houses] meets most of her published objections to renewal plans in ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 21,2017 )
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) by Anne Curry
epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Anne Curry

Callous as this act appears to be (other sources suggest prisoners were killed by weapons too), Henry had been placed in a vulnerable position. To protect his own men, he ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
The Man with the Poison Gun by Serhii Plokhy
epub |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Serhii Plokhy

31 DOWN TO THE WIRE It was only on the morning of August 12 that Lieutenant Colonel Yurii Aleksandrov implied that their KGB “protection” would be removed while they planned ...
( Category: Russia June 21,2017 )
Spies in the Family by Eva Dillon
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:Eva Dillon

Dmitri and Nina Polyakov had arrived in Delhi a few weeks before us. His office was at the Soviet embassy, within a compound whose parks and landscaped boulevards were a ...
( Category: Russia June 21,2017 )
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
epub |eng | 2004-06-20 | Author:Anna Politkovskaya

THE URALS JUDICIARY: THE MOST CORRUPT IN THE WORLD? Let us recall that, on the night following the seizure of Uralkhimmash, Fedulev and the supporters of the deposed director were ...
( Category: Russia June 21,2017 )
The Bridgebusters by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Within a few weeks of his return, McCarthy had a very narrow escape. In late August, he led a dive-bombing mission on a marshalling yard. During the dive, he spotted ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )

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