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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert A. Caro

AS HE ENTERED the home stretch, however, he made two improvements in his strategy. One was his own inspiration. He always enjoyed such great success with elderly people; now he ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 20,2016 )
Eleanor The Secret Queen: The Woman who put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

17 Death The dowager Countess of Shrewsbury enjoyed Edward IV’s generosity for less than two years, for she died on Sunday 14 June 1467, at the age of 63, and ...
( Category: Great Britain January 20,2016 )
Nietzsche: The Gay Science (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub |eng | 2001-08-23 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

153 Homo poeta.27 – ‘I myself, who most single-handedly made this tragedy of tragedies, insofar as it is finished; I, having first tied the knot of morality into existence and ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2016 )
THE DIVINE INVASION by Philip K. Dick
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick Philip]

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers January 18,2016 )
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]

THIS WAS THE ATMOSPHERE that twenty-five-year-old Kathy Westmoreland came into when she joined the show as high soprano Millie Kirkham’s replacement on Sunday, August 16. Kathy had agreed to take ...
( Category: Popular January 16,2016 )
Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot by David P. Chandler
mobi |eng | 1992-10-19 | Author:David P. Chandler [Chandler, David P.]

Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 14,2016 )
Winged Scalpel by Richard Villar
epub |eng | 2013-08-15 | Author:Richard Villar

I did not feel welcome at the UN base. The place was clearly struggling. Agencies from throughout the world had started to arrive but the establishment seemed unable to handle ...
( Category: Medical January 14,2016 )
Eisenhower's Thorn on the Rhine: The Battles for the Colmar Pocket, 1944-45 by Nathan Prefer
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Nathan Prefer [Prefer, Nathan]

That attack came the next morning after an intense artillery and mortar barrage. Communications between Sergeant Bell and the rest of Company I were disrupted by the intense shellfire, and ...
( Category: Germany January 13,2016 )
Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House by Robert Dallek
epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

Kennedy did not dispute the failure to do big things at home. But for the time being, he felt that foreign dangers still had to command his primary attention. And ...
( Category: Executive Branch January 13,2016 )
Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts - From FDR to Obama by Mel Ayton
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Mel Ayton [Ayton, Mel]

When Mahonski was arraigned before a judge, he insisted that he had been drugged by President Reagan, the CIA, the FBI, and the Air Force. He also said government agents ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 12,2016 )
Reading the Man by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
epub |eng | 2007-01-11 | Author:Elizabeth Brown Pryor

General Robert E. Lee in 1863, photographed at the studio of Minnis and Cowell in Richmond. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lee’s imposing appearance before the flaming Chancellor tavern was a classic ...
( Category: American Civil War January 12,2016 )
RN by Richard Nixon
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Nixon

ITT The day after we returned from China, Jack Anderson began a series of newspaper columns in which he claimed to have unearthed a major administration scandal. His charges were ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State January 11,2016 )
Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Spike Walker

CHAPTER 6 When Lt. Bill Adickes walked down the short distance from his office and stepped into the Operations Center in the remote Coast Guard outpost in Sitka, Alaska, things ...
( Category: State & Local January 10,2016 )
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Roberts Jennifer T
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Roberts, Jennifer T. [Roberts, Jennifer T.]

Inevitably, Herodotus was somewhat prone to falling into generalization. It was easy for him to seize on individual details he had observed and extrapolate wildly. One can see him in ...
( Category: Greece January 10,2016 )
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]

Juvenile delinquency, a widespread breakdown of morality and cultural values, race mixing, riots, and irreligion all were being blamed on Elvis Presley and rock ’n’ roll by a national press ...
( Category: Blues January 9,2016 )

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