Historical
mobi |eng | 2004-02-15 | Author:Ron Chernow

CHAPTER 21 The Enthusiast When Rockefeller receded from the business world in the mid-1890s, the average American was earning less than ten dollars per week. Rockefeller’s average income—a stupefying $10 ...
( Category: Invertebrates March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Janet Gleeson

The Crown of Poland, venal twice an age, To just three millions stinted modest Gage. But in certain Parisian salons the flourishing fortunes of countless overseas investors met with a ...
( Category: Paper Ephemera March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:T. J. Stiles

MANY MYSTERIES SURROUND the Harlem corner. How much stock did Vanderbilt really keep in the end? How much did he make? Who were his collaborators? Perhaps most important, who were ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-08 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

When Ponzi arrived at 27 School Street, the adoring crowd he’d found a day earlier had been replaced by a larger, edgier horde, their bodies drenched in sweat, their eyes ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks

Earlier that month I had finally walked through the big stone gates of Sydney University. I’d arrived there brimming with confidence, proud of good exam results. But the exhilaration didn’t ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-30 | Author:Algeo, Matthew [Algeo, Matthew]

* * * 10 New York, New York, June 27–July 5, 1953 Harry’s private railcar, which was attached to the regular Philadelphia Express, arrived at Penn Station in New York ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Benge, Geoff [Benge, Geoff]

Patrick Henry (Precepts Instilled In Him By His Uncle) To be true & first in all my dealings. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart. To keep my ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Mimi Alford

Chapter Ten “I met someone,” I told the President in the winter of 1963. I said it in a teasing way but also with a note of pride, as I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin [O'Reilly, Bill]

11 MAY 3, 1963 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 1:00 P.M. “We’re going to walk, walk, walk. Freedom … Freedom … Freedom,” the protesters chant as they march out through the great oak ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Ted Sorensen

PERSISTING PROBLEMS In the end the President sided with us. He realized that he faced a deep-rooted sluggishness in the economy which posed a more serious and longer-range problem than ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:James W. Douglass

Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful to the friends who read and critiqued this work in progress: Bob and Janet Aldridge, Robert Aitken, Marya Barr, Karol Schulkin, Sandy Bishop, Rhea Miller, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Chris Matthews

CHAPTER TWELVE CHARISMA How does Jack get them girls to squeal that way? —Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia Jack Kennedy’s singular personal appeal was recognized by Ken O’Donnell for the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Robert A. Caro

14 Three Encounters AT ABOUT 4:30 A.M., while Johnson was sleeping, the autopsy was finally completed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and the coffin was brought by that gray Navy ambulance ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Heike B. Gortemaker; Damion Searls

Eva Braun photographing Hitler in conversation with Morell, 1937 (Illustration Credit 8.8) Thus there is no sign of any professional distance between Hitler’s personal photographer and Hitler’s girlfriend. And so ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Heike B. Gortemaker

Eva Braun photographing Hitler in conversation with Morell, 1937 (Illustration Credit 8.8) Thus there is no sign of any professional distance between Hitler’s personal photographer and Hitler’s girlfriend. And so ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )