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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Foote Shelby
epub |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:Foote, Shelby [Foote, Shelby]

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War December 10,2016 )
The Republic of Plato by Allan Bloom
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Allan Bloom

BOOK IX “Well,” I said, “the tyrannic man himself remains to be considered—how he is transformed out of the democratic man, and, once come into being, what sort of man ...
( Category: Democracy December 10,2016 )
Hemingway at War by Terry Mort
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Terry Mort

To Hemingway, Paris was a city of memory and nostalgia, the place where he had served his apprenticeship as a writer, the place where he and his first wife, Hadley, ...
( Category: World War II December 9,2016 )
The Mayor of Mogadishu by Andrew Harding
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Harding

Shamis with the kids, 1991. COURTESY OF THE NUR FAMILY For years, Abdullahi was a difficult, hyperactive child. At home, after school, he would crouch behind the television set mixing ...
( Category: Africa December 8,2016 )
Child of Hitler by Alfons Heck
epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Alfons Heck

Frau Friedhoff Girls of the Hitlerjugend and Reichsarbeitsdienst who served as cooks on the Westwall in the fall of 1944 Field kitchens were set up in the cobblestone yard of ...
( Category: Historical December 7,2016 )
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie by Behrens Roy R
epub |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Behrens, Roy R. [Behrens, Roy R.]

Lithographic plate from The Grammar of Ornament (1856) by Owen Jones, an indispensable sourcebook for architects. Left half of a panoramic photograph of downtown Mason City in 1907. Photograph by ...
( Category: State & Local December 6,2016 )
Education of Henry Adams by Adams Henry; Nadel Ira;
epub |eng | 1999-12-05 | Author:Adams, Henry; Nadel, Ira;

CHAPTER XX FAILURE (1871) FAR back in childhood, among its earliest memories, Henry Adams could recall his first visit to Harvard College. He must have been nine years old when ...
( Category: United States December 6,2016 )
The Life of Henry Brulard by John Sturrock
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:John Sturrock

Sunday altar.—Mountains.—Périer garden.—Terrace 40 feet high decked with vines and flowers.—My uncle’s room. J. My private garden next to the water stone.—A. Natural history room.—F. Locked cupboards containing minerals, seashells.—T. ...
( Category: European December 4,2016 )
Charlemagne by Derek Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson

Notes 1 Halphen, op. cit., p.98 2 N. Machiavelli, The Prince (trs. W. K. Marriott), 1908, p.21 3 Allott, op. cit., p.98 4 Einhard and Notker, p.146 5 cf. Becher, ...
( Category: Rome December 4,2016 )
A History of American Sports in 100 Objects by Cait Murphy
epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Cait Murphy

1975 PRE’S ROCK In his too-brief career, Steve Prefontaine did the impossible: he made distance running cool to Americans. At the time of his death in 1975, the James Dean ...
( Category: United States December 4,2016 )
Creating Carmen Miranda by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez [Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn]

Carmen Miranda wearing Yvonne Wood’s exquisite creation for her final number of Greenwich Village (1944). Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library In Carmen Miranda’s last film for Twentieth Century-Fox, If ...
( Category: Brazil December 3,2016 )
One of These Things First by Steven Gaines
epub |ara, eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Steven Gaines

Five Mr. Halliday The third floor of Payne Whitney reminded me of the Beauregard, the small residential hotel in Bournemouth, England, in the movie Separate Tables. The hotel is a ...
( Category: United States December 1,2016 )
Prisoners of Hope by Randall B. Woods
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Randall B. Woods

IN THE LATE FALL OF 1965, THE “FABULOUS EIGHTY-NINTH,” AS THE press labeled the sitting session of Congress, adjourned. Its record of achievement was unparalleled: Medicare; Medicaid; voting rights; federal ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 1,2016 )
Kafka by Reiner Stach
epub |eng | | Author:Reiner Stach

It was his first publication, at the age of twenty-four, and Kafka was surely heartened. Might it not be possible after all to patch together “Description of a Struggle” into ...
( Category: Europe November 29,2016 )
Confessions of a Second Story Man by Allen M. Hornblum
epub |eng | | Author:Allen M. Hornblum

“Scolnick was good at con games,” says Kripplebauer, “but when it came to real criminal shit he was nothing. Rosenberg and Paul figured that bank deal out; they deserve as ...
( Category: State & Local November 17,2016 )

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