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Live From Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, From Sputnik to Today by Jay Barbree
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Jay Barbree

( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Zinn Howard
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The Last Teach-In The remarkable growth of the antiwar movement can be measured by the ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr by Ken Gormley
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-16 | Author:Ken Gormley

THE final weeks of January, after the Lewinsky story erupted in the media, were among the most fast-moving in American political history. On the same day that “Unabomber” Theodore J. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ellen Fitzpatrick

* * * John F. Kennedy was the first American President born in the twentieth century. At forty-three years of age, he was also the youngest man ever elected to ...
( Category: Letters March 25,2014 )
Lasso the Wind by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:Timothy Egan

A FEW YEARS into his project, Turnbull’s ranch was crowded with birds—speedy, hyperkinetic, somewhat neurotic, exceedingly horny— and Highlands Ranch was crowded with people, who were doing their share for ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:John M. Barry

The report had consequences. Park’s laboratory began the struggle to produce an antiserum and vaccine to Pfeiffer’s bacillus. Soon they were culturing liters and liters of the bacteria, transporting it ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 25,2014 )
The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Letts

Approaching the fence, Snowman is alert and Harry is balanced forward. (illustration credits 14.3) But this was a tough course. The fences were all above five feet, with big spreads, ...
( Category: Riding March 25,2014 )
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
J. D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Kenneth Slawenski

—John Updike, 19741 In creating the intimacy between Holden Caulfield and readers of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger employed the lesson taught to him by Whit Burnett in 1939 ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Ike's Spies by Stephen E. Ambrose
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

* * * * McCarthy was after William Bundy, a member of the CIA’S Board of National Estimates and Dean Acheson’s son-in-law. Bundy, it seemed, had contributed $400 to the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tom Brokaw

Martha Settle Putney Her all-black unit of medical technicians was to be housed near Gardner General Hospital, not too far from Chicago’s tony Lake Shore Drive. The Army had built ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Great Bridge by David McCullough
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental March 25,2014 )
The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story by King Dean
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:King, Dean [King, Dean]

Portraits from the February 17, 1888, Louisville Courier-Journal, of (in order from the top) Randall McCoy and the defendants Wall Hatfield, L. D. McCoy, Selkirk McCoy; Doc, Sam, and Plyant ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Anti-Slavery Crusade (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition) by Jesse Macy
mobi, epub | | 2008-10-02 | Author:Jesse Macy

CHAPTER IX. BOOKS AS ANTI-SLAVERY WEAPONS Whittier offered up "thanks for the fugitive slave law; for it gave occasion for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'" Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe had been mistress ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Bold Spirit by Linda Hunt
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Linda Hunt

William and Mary Bryan’s home in Lincoln, Nebraska, decorated for a celebration during the Presidential election year of 1896. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections, RG3198:22-6. Detail of this ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )

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