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Death of a Dissident by Marina Litvinenko Alex Goldfarb
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Marina Litvinenko Alex Goldfarb

Sasha’s trial began in early October. The hearing was closed; Marina had to wait in the hallway. All she could think about was how to catch a glimpse of Sasha ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
David Crockett by Michael Wallis
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Michael Wallis

I now avail myself of the privilege common to every freeman, of offering myself as a candidate for a seat in the next Congress of the United States. It is ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Condoleezza Rice

Being served a strawberry drink in Dubai during a visit with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates and a member of the ruling family. ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
My life by Bill Clinton
mobi, epub | | 2004-12-13 | Author:Bill Clinton

The inauguration and an inaugural ball, January 20, 1993 Al Gore and I with the cabinet: (standing, from left) Madeleine Albright, Mack McLarty, Mickey Kantor, Laura Tyson, Leon Panetta, Carol ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With John F. Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy; Michael Beschloss
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Caroline Kennedy; Michael Beschloss

Less than a hundred. Less than a hundred. But he said that in all—and I think he said it all through his Senate campaign.27 He certainly said it all through ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
In My Time by Dick Cheney; Liz Cheney
mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Dick Cheney; Liz Cheney

Liz and Mary on election night 2000 reacting to the news that the networks had called the election for George W. Bush and me. It was a premature – but ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Her Majesty's Spymaster by Stephen Budiansky
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Stephen Budiansky

Above all, Mr. Secretary wanted Elizabeth to greatly increase support to the rebels in France and the Low Countries, and so vex both of the Catholic powers at once. If ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
Henry Clay: The Essential American by David S. Heidler; Jeanne T. Heidler
mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:David S. Heidler; Jeanne T. Heidler

CHAPTER ELEVEN Three Campaigns THERE IS AN old saying that troubles come in threes. In the years following Clay’s disappointment at the Harrisburg convention, he would be a living illustration ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 25,2014 )
Being George Washington by Beck Glenn
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Beck, Glenn [Beck, Glenn]

October 20, 1781 Yorktown General Cornwallis knew that this would be one of the most painful days of his esteemed life. Surrendering to the enemy was simply unimaginable. He would ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-10-14 | Author:Jon Meacham

WHEN CHURCHILL ARRIVED at Quebec from Hyde Park on Sunday morning, August 15, Clementine met the train. Mary found her “looking better,” but Mrs. Churchill had not greatly improved. Even ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-23 | Author:Loung Ung

child soldiers August 1977 The months pass and the government continues to increase our food ration, allowing me to grow a little stronger. It has been three months since we ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:H.W. Brands

The riots gave bite to demands by the opponents of the Stamp Act for a coordinated rejection of the stamps. As few souls dared incur the wrath of the mobs, ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
An American Life by Ronald Reagan
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Ronald Reagan

56 EVEN THOUGH I WAS constantly meeting new people and attending public events in the presence of thousands of people, I discovered a surprising dimension to the presidency—a bird-in-a-gilded-cage sense ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971 by David Mccullough
mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:David Mccullough

The speech Truman sends Acheson is actually drawn from Truman’s Inaugural Address, not the State of the Union Message of 1949. The speech puts forward, like the Inaugural Address, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Ace of Spies by Andrew Cook
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Andrew Cook

ELEVEN FINAL CURTAIN Instead of heading for New York as scheduled, the captain of the SS Olympic docked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 21 April, due to propeller trouble.1 Although ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )

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