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9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan
epub |eng | 2015-12-25 | Author:Brion McClanahan

THE NIXON SHOCK Following World War II, the United States and its industrial Western allies had signed an agreement known as Bretton-Woods. It created the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
The Tunnels by Greg Mitchell
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Greg Mitchell

Later that day Kennedy met with his United Nations ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from meeting with European leaders. Stevenson reported that nearly everyone privately opposed the reunification ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God by Jack Weatherford
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-29 | Author:Jack Weatherford

News of the Mongol defeat by the forces of Jalal ad-Din spread quickly throughout the former Khwarizm Empire. Compared with their own losses over the past two years, it was ...
( Category: Asia June 21,2017 )
The Way of the Writer by Charles Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Johnson

20. The Essay E. Ethelbert Miller says: Let’s talk about the essay form. What makes for a good essay? Where have the ideas for your essays come from? Do people ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 21,2017 )
Nixon's White House Wars by Patrick J. Buchanan
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

On January 20, 1971, at midpoint in his first term, Nixon wrote a memo to Haldeman showing his frustration, anger, and indignation at what I had written in “Neither Fish ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jeff Guinn

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX CONSEQUENCES Jones’s soft public words aside, the Gang of Eight defections left him determined to exert even more control over his followers. That kind of betrayal wouldn’t happen ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
The Rise of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Jefferson Davis [Davis, Jefferson]

I will now make the promised extracts from reminiscences of Colonel (then Captain) Lay, which were sent to a friend, and handed to me for my use. The paper bears ...
( Category: Americas June 21,2017 )
Young Mr. Obama by Edward McClelland
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-20 | Author:Edward McClelland

Chapter 9 DEFEAT W H I L E O B A M A ’ S P A T H T O P O W E R had gone through Columbia ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Queen Anne by Anne Somerset
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Anne Somerset

For the past fifteen years or so, the entire Hill family had benefited from Sarah’s kindness. When the Duke of Gloucester’s death had led to Alice Hill losing her job ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 21,2017 )
George V (Penguin Monarchs) by David Cannadine
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:David Cannadine

4 Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1918–1929 There was a clattering down of thrones in Europe, and the world was a little dazed with the sound and dust. John Buchan, The King’s ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-20 | Author:David Nasaw

a flash comes upon your home life and troubles and I feel as if I could sink every mill and mine we own…. We then think of you and Mrs. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 21,2017 )
Mao: A Life by Philip Short
epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Philip Short [Short, Philip]

Y a n ' a n I n t £ r l u d £ 4UI To Mao, it was a repeat performance of Stalin's perfidy in 1936, when he ...
( Category: Historical June 21,2017 )
Adams: An American Dynasty by Francis Russell
epub |eng | | Author:Francis Russell [Francis Russell]

6 Charles Francis Adams VOICE OF HONOR THE CHILD’S first memories were of St. Petersburg, that gra­cious city of imperial vistas set so inappropriately yet so mag­ically in northern Russia. ...
( Category: Historical June 20,2017 )
Crazy Horse: A Life (Penguin Lives) by McMurtry Larry
epub |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:McMurtry, Larry [McMurtry, Larry]

11 BY THE SUMMER of 1875 the crisis over the Black Hills could no longer be postponed. Custer’s grand announcement caught the nation’s attention: after that the miners could not ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 20,2017 )
The First Ladies by Feather Schwartz Foster
mobi, epub |ru | 2012-01-25 | Author:Feather Schwartz Foster

EDITH ROOSEVELT 1861–1948 FIRST LADY: 1901–09 The Elegant White House There was never a time Edith Carow did not know Theodore Roosevelt. Her best friend Corinne was Theodore’s younger sister, ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 20,2017 )

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