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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 13,2014 )
A Cruel and Shocking Act by Philip Shenon
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Philip Shenon [Shenon, Philip]

35 THE OFFICES OF THE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC MAY 1964 At their late-night staff dinners, Specter and some of the other young lawyers began to mock the commissioners. They joked ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 13,2014 )
Salinger by David Shields
epub |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:David Shields [Shields, David]

Mary McCarthy. GORE VIDAL: This ghastly, self-observant family, going on and on and on about everything of importance to them, which they assume is important to all the world. ANNE ...
( Category: Authors November 13,2014 )
Days of Fire by Peter Baker
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Peter Baker

BUSH HAD HAD IT with the conservatives who were beating up Harriet Miers. The more they attacked her, the more he dug in. “I do not care about them at ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 13,2014 )
Investigative Medium by Laine Crosby
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Laine Crosby [Crosby, Laine]

How to Make Rose Water As told to me by the spirit of Maime Robertson b.1832 d. 1891 Montgomery County, Maryland Let roses bloom completely. When they have reached their ...
( Category: American Civil War November 13,2014 )
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Gilbert King

CHAPTER 15: YOU HAVE PISSED IN MY WHISKEY Sheriff Willis McCall. (Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida) THURGOOD MARSHALL SENT a twelve-word telegram to Dellia Irvin: “Won new trial ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism November 13,2014 )
Careless Love by Peter Guralnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | 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: Rock November 12,2014 )
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

The family in 1946. Left to right: Huntley, Byrne, O.A., Pete, Marston, Olive Byrne, Donn, and Holloway (illustration credit 28.2) Hedy Lamarr, Fuzzy, and Molecat were rabbits. They’d had pet ...
( Category: United States November 12,2014 )
Supermob by Gus Russo
epub |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Gus Russo

Nonetheless, according to Andy Anderson, Korshak continued to pay homage to his original Chicago underworld patrons. "On Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, he'd have to go to Chicago to see ...
( Category: State & Local November 12,2014 )
On His Own Terms by Richard Norton Smith
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Richard Norton Smith [Smith, Richard Norton]

7 WHEN THE REPUBLICAN National Committee convened in Denver for its summer meeting on June 22, George Hinman had a new partner in his advocacy of Rockefeller interests. Joining him ...
( Category: State & Local November 11,2014 )
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Gracie Archibald
epub |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:Gracie, Archibald [Gracie, Archibald]

Incidents J.G. Boxhall, Fourth Officer (Am. Inq., p. 240, and Br. Inq.): I was sent away in Emergency boat 2, the last boat but one on the port side. There ...
( Category: History November 11,2014 )
(Dalgliesh 06) Muerte De Un Forense
mobi |es | 2011-10-15 | Author:P.d. James

3 El señor Goddard dijo: —Bajaba corriendo por el camino de entrada como si le persiguieran todos los diablos. —¿Podría describírnoslo, señor Goddard? —Qué va. No era viejo. —¿Muy joven? ...
( Category: Murder November 11,2014 )
Los Hornos De Hitler by Olga Lengyel
mobi |es | 1961-01-01 | Author:Olga Lengyel

CAPÍTULO XIII El "Ángel de la Muerte" Contra el "Gran Seleccionador" Aquel día debí morir. Ni siquiera cuando fui "seleccionada" estuve tan cerca de la muerte. Cuando pienso en ello, ...
( Category: Jewish November 11,2014 )
Vida de Marco Bruto by Francisco de Quevedo
mobi |es | 2009-08-09 | Author:Francisco de Quevedo

Oyola Bruto con toda la alma, y compitiéndola en el semblante lo mortal, procuraba con suspiros sostituir la vida a Porcia, y se enterneció humanamente en la piedad de oficio ...
( Category: Spain & Portugal November 11,2014 )
A Journey by Tony Blair
mobi |eng | 2010-09-03 | Author:Tony Blair

THIRTEEN. IRAQ: COUNTDOWN TO WAR As I thought on how to answer the question put to me at the end of my evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers November 11,2014 )

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