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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India by Joseph Lelyveld
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Joseph Lelyveld

He may have meant to offer Ambedkar “the gentlest treatment,” may not have been thinking of Ambedkar at all, when he led off with a political barb, noting in the ...
( Category: Historical India & South Asia Biographies March 25,2014 )
Columbus: The Four Voyages by Laurence Bergreen
mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

The Spanish refused to shoulder the blame. The mass suicide resulted from the Indians’ “own stubbornness,” said Peter Martyr. “The Indians purposely destroyed all their bread [cassava] fields,” Columbus told ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Ghosts of Manila by Mark Kram
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Mark Kram

On March 8, 1971, according to Muhammad Ali, the planet would stumble in its axis, billions would hold their breaths, including every last ice-covered Sherpa and sand-swept Bedouin, an ecumenical ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff
mobi, azw3, 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When Ponzi arrived at 27 School Street, the adoring crowd he’d found a day earlier had been replaced by a larger, edgier horde, their bodies drenched in sweat, their eyes ...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 )
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Karen Abbott

Mayor Jimmy Walker might not have made it to his office in City Hall on the day of February 12, 1931, but that night he was among a thousand patrons ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
American Rose by Karen Abbott
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Karen Abbott

Mayor Jimmy Walker might not have made it to his office in City Hall on the day of February 12, 1931, but that night he was among a thousand patrons ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
American Outlaw by James Jesse
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:James, Jesse [James, Jesse]

We were married in a very small ceremony in Long Beach, and some six months later, our second child was born—a boy. We named him Jesse Jr. “Look at this ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Street gang: the complete history of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Michael Davis

On the Sunday night before the Sesame Street premiere, Tim and Joan Cooney took in the movie Funny Girl at the Ziegfeld Theater, just to kill some time until the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Sean Wilentz

Although McTell could playact the folklore historian, he was, as Dylan would later be, a musical modernist with strong roots in traditional forms. Here and there McTell tipped his hat ...
( Category: Classical March 25,2014 )
In Pursuit of the English by Doris Lessing
mobi, epub |eng | 1960-09-22 | Author:Doris Lessing

Chapter Four I had come to England with pounds of tinned food in my trunk as to a starving country, prepared to tighten my belt and to suffer, as the ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Tobias Wolff

DOC MACLEOD AND I went into My Tho for some fish soup that evening. As we drove in from the airfield it started to mist up and by the time ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
mobi, epub |eng | 1975-10-21 | Author:Tim O'Brien

In the rather limited reading I’ve done lately, I’ve discovered the poet Robinson Jeffers. His writing is harsh yet beautiful, and it makes me think of April, and April turns ...
( Category: Southeast Asia March 25,2014 )
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Herbert Donald

Naming Rosecrans and Burnside was a shrewd move. Burnside, in particular, was a happy choice. In addition to having some military reputation from his expedition against Roanoke Island, he looked ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Elie Wiesel

“How much is a life worth?” “I have no idea.” “Think about it, please.” “I can’t.” “Try. You have to admit it’s an important question. The Germans are ready to ...
( Category: France March 25,2014 )
Small Memories by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa

I was never much of a fisherman. Like any boy of my age and modest means, I used an ordinary rod with a hook, sinker and cork float tied to ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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